 Model Maniac wrote: |
| The possible benefit is one side of the coin. The other side is possible damage. You'll never ever know how many people have been scared off by those critiques, thinking that even work this good got so much critiques so they'd better not show their works here. |
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"Comments and suggestions are welcome" was at the bottom of the first post. Now, if you'd started off with "Comments and attaboys welcome," you might have a case, but since you didn't state off the bat that you weren't interested in criticism then you have to sleep in the bed you made.
I think you're being a little over-sensitive. None of the comments have been mean spirited. People are into the hobby for various reasons, and if one wants to make better models asking others to point out areas they could improve is a good way to have other eyes point out things you might have missed.
If your goal for the hobby is to slap something together in a night and then have people heap nothing but praise on you ... well, good luck with that.
I have hung myself out on the net for people to criticise for almost 15 years now. I currently post historical documents to my Researcher@Large site as well as research... yeah I get some e-mails criticising and suggesting, but I read them, think about them, and eithed decide the point is valid and worth pursuing or that it's not something I can or want to accomodate. Yeah, sometimes I'm not happy about what people say, but it usually winds up a positive experience.