> I guess critics will exist no matter what, but it really doesn't jive with my philosophy of "be good to eachother." I think it can be both - a finer art not

> I guess critics will exist no matter what, but it really doesn't jive with my philosophy of "be good to eachother." I think it can be both - a finer art not mentioned here is the strong negative review that acknowledges what the creator was attempting and maybe includes a silver lining. Showing humanity while criticizing is maybe even more important. Sometimes negative aspects come from deeper macro level societal problems though, manifesting at the individual level of the creator who then puts them into a piece of mass media thus fueling the macro problem. Criticism focusing on this is incredibly important and IMO is in exact support of "be good to eachother". Again though, that doesn't mean hang the creator out to try and show your own writing chops doing it. It means show your ability to deeply understand the context and the piece by drilling down into the nuance of what made it bad, and maybe even adding some suggestions of how to improve it for future pieces of the same type or genre or even the exact piece.