The single biggest problem with forum critique is that it is simply impssible to make obvious such things as
'tongue in cheek'
'sarcasm' and
'dry humour'
I have been critiscised, (well, flamed would have been a more accurate statement), recently on a motorbike forum I use simply for commenting on the fact that a painters website which was posted on a thread, was awfully designed, I mentioned first of all that the custom paint looked good, simply that the website was not user friendly in presentation, navigation and had a distinctly unprofessional look and considering that the painter in question was hoping to sell expensive custom paintwork logic dictates you MUST have a professional store front, (a website is after all the equivalent of your shop entrance).
I had some particularly unpleasant posts subsequent to this accusing me of all but industrial espionage.
Now my sole intention was to constructively critiscize the store front in the hopes the painter would be big enough to take this on board and maybe look at some of his competition and look to see where it could be improved.
Seemingly one or two others thought I was being overly critical, nasty? and this after the OP had, as his closing statement, heres the website, what do you think?
I find also that most people on here unsure about something will typically ask for help and advise during the build rather than complete a model and ask for someone to tell them whats wrong.
Personally I think an additional forum entitled
'models for critique'
would be the best way about it, then anyone posting in there wil be fully aware that all commentary good, bad or indifferent would be levelled at their model, I personally would use it for some models but not for others, some I build for fun and just don't care that the supercharger intake is 1 scale inch too short for the xyz f3 MkIIII trop turbo escort cosworth, others I look to building as accurately as I possibly can.
Incidentally, another example has occurred to me, I commented on a thread a couple of days ago regarding a Cosworth, (the above nonexistant model reminded me), I made mention of customising a model of a sierra entirely in jest, even adding a laughing smiley to reinforce this, purely because sensible replies had already been left and it seemed a funny thing to add to lighten the mood but clearly it touched a nerve as a follow up poster made a statement about a 'typical sierra and an RS500 cosworth Sierra being completely diferent!'
This highlights the point of intention not coming across in writing, in company it would have been far easier to get across the jesting nature of this particular comment.
I think the last thing any of us wish to do with such a wonderful and friendly forum is to turn it unintentionally into an unwelcoming and unfriendly one.
I scoured quite a few model forums before regsitering with this one, some of which were very scathing about builds.
'tongue in cheek'
'sarcasm' and
'dry humour'
I have been critiscised, (well, flamed would have been a more accurate statement), recently on a motorbike forum I use simply for commenting on the fact that a painters website which was posted on a thread, was awfully designed, I mentioned first of all that the custom paint looked good, simply that the website was not user friendly in presentation, navigation and had a distinctly unprofessional look and considering that the painter in question was hoping to sell expensive custom paintwork logic dictates you MUST have a professional store front, (a website is after all the equivalent of your shop entrance).
I had some particularly unpleasant posts subsequent to this accusing me of all but industrial espionage.
Now my sole intention was to constructively critiscize the store front in the hopes the painter would be big enough to take this on board and maybe look at some of his competition and look to see where it could be improved.
Seemingly one or two others thought I was being overly critical, nasty? and this after the OP had, as his closing statement, heres the website, what do you think?
I find also that most people on here unsure about something will typically ask for help and advise during the build rather than complete a model and ask for someone to tell them whats wrong.
Personally I think an additional forum entitled
'models for critique'
would be the best way about it, then anyone posting in there wil be fully aware that all commentary good, bad or indifferent would be levelled at their model, I personally would use it for some models but not for others, some I build for fun and just don't care that the supercharger intake is 1 scale inch too short for the xyz f3 MkIIII trop turbo escort cosworth, others I look to building as accurately as I possibly can.
Incidentally, another example has occurred to me, I commented on a thread a couple of days ago regarding a Cosworth, (the above nonexistant model reminded me), I made mention of customising a model of a sierra entirely in jest, even adding a laughing smiley to reinforce this, purely because sensible replies had already been left and it seemed a funny thing to add to lighten the mood but clearly it touched a nerve as a follow up poster made a statement about a 'typical sierra and an RS500 cosworth Sierra being completely diferent!'
This highlights the point of intention not coming across in writing, in company it would have been far easier to get across the jesting nature of this particular comment.
I think the last thing any of us wish to do with such a wonderful and friendly forum is to turn it unintentionally into an unwelcoming and unfriendly one.
I scoured quite a few model forums before regsitering with this one, some of which were very scathing about builds.
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