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Originally Posted by mikephoen
I didn't take his first post as rude at all. He did say 'horrid', which is probably slightly over the top, but other than that it looked like constructive criticism to me.
Then everyone piles on, and things ramped up, but the first post seemed fine to me.
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The problem is that there seems to be a certain way to dish out constructive criticism, otherwise people tend to take offense.
Generally I try to follow the "Here's all the things I thought were done well" to establish a positive stance, then transition over to "here what I thought could have done better" to finish off with something constructive.
Sometimes people skip over the positive part and just go right into the criticism, which leaves the post with a negative connotation and puts people on the defensive.