Positive Criticism is a must!

[Bloodrun]

We need to cut down on the negative feedback being dished out in the card creation forums, usually without any helpful advice. It creates a negative atmosphere that discourages new users from making new cards and sharing them. The best way for people to improve is for them to receive constructive criticism and encouragement.

 

Guys, this is a friendly card making forum, and with that we need to have a friendly atmosphere.

That being said, here are some examples, of both good and bad criticism.

 

Example 1 (bad):

 

Your cards suck man. I mean you have elementary spelling skills. You sir, Fail.

 

Example 2 (good):

 

Hmm,

I would suggest that you capitalize Deck, Graveyard and Life Points.

Also, hand is not capitalized.

 

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Please take notice to this information. You will be warned if we catch you being rude.

[Luna Lovegood]

Thtas a good idea. May I sugest .1 warning for negative/flaming comments.

[Bloodrun]

Depending on the severity of the comment, the warning will differ.

[Luna Lovegood]

OK, thanks for the info. I am glad flaming will be stopped.

[Brendano Harns]

Yay, I hate flaming. I believe that this new rule will smoothen out the edges of people here at YCM. It was a good Idea! :mrgreen:

[Force_Flex]

yay no more meanie comments!!!!!

[Brendano Harns]

Yeah...that sounded...true, but..."meanie"?...that probably could not describe what some people post...I guess...

[.:|Fallen|:.]

i like it

well done bloodrun

[Pikachu]

You sir, win

AHA! That is positive ^_^

[Chinotornes]

Good call i see quite a lot of Phailz/10 and it could make new members loose courage in their card making.

[Alastar Rainford]

I love the Idea

[Guest Welche]

Great Idea. No more "Oped, bad OCG bad everything" comments.

[JG.]

Nice idea Bloodrun! I can take critisism, but still, what some people post is unacceptable. Can we apply this rule to Showcase too?

[J123]

Bloodrun you have some great ideas inside you. ake sure you let them all out to make YCM a better place. :D

Ps: People lets not turn this thread into spam

[ShadowRSonic]

When I was new I had some nasty comments on my cards without knowing what was wrong with them. This is the topic I've been waiting for!

[Bloodrun]

Thanks for the compliments everyone. I hope each and every one of you will follow this new rule.

 

And on that note, I would like to take the time to openly say, Shorten the length of your sigs, as some of them are way to big. Now, im not going to name any names, im just letting the members take care of it themselves, before a moderator uses his/her power to do it themselves.

I'm giving you guys the chance to notice these things ;)

[Liger Zero]

Great Idea.

[Xing]

That is true I only yell at people cause I saw 3 & 4 star people yelling, so I thought it was fine. hehehehhehe

[ShadowRSonic]

BloodRun, you should lock this topic before it turns into spam.

[Mark Gerardi]

Agreed, we all love the game and we are sharing our designs in search of making our cards better not for judging.

[Bengal]

I definately agree, positive criticism makes for better card makers and happier members who are more inclined to follow other forum rules.

 

People need to keep their anger or frustration in their personal life out of the tone of responses to card other members have posted.

 

I do think a punishment is in order for members not complying to the rule though, it will discourage people from nasty comments.

 

Great idea.

[Falling Pizza]

Great thread, Bloodrun. Only suggestion I have is to change the title from "positive criticism" to "constructive criticism".

[Bloodrun]

Great thread' date=' Bloodrun. Only suggestion I have is to change the title from "positive criticism" to "constructive criticism".

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Well I thought about that, and Icyblue told me the same thing, but when I thought about it, I cam up with this:

 

Members here are primarily around and below the age of 13.

Which therefore means that they will more then likely understand what I mean when I say Positive, and Negative. Young kids are taught the fact Positive means good and Negative means bad.

While relaying the fact that Negative Criticism is no longer wanted, lets them know that They must be curtious when posting. Just saying Constructive Criticism would work, but more then likely the younger members will think that as long as they say how to change the card, they can still be mean..

[Brendano Harns]

Good point Bloodrun. There are many YCM members that are probably 11 or 12...They might have taken like you said, and then you probably would have had to create a thread similar to this one after so many complaints, and everything would continue to become more and more stressful therein. Just yet another example of how one dicision can change the corse of YCM history, whether it be a prodigous or miniscule situation, it can still change a lot. Good thinking. ;)

[~ P O L A R I S ~]

Nice rule, tired of 1-3 word posts, or just simply an unexplained rating. Critique isn't valued as much as it should be, which is a shame. *Shakes head dissapprovingly*.