I am sorry sic if you think I was threatening you with the leave your experiences at the door part. I wasn't. As I said you can give them feed back and help them work on things, and if people are asking you to critique them then fine. I have no problem with that. And over all sic I don't have a prob with you, I don't think you give horrible critiques, and I do think you balance it out well most of the time and when you don't I let you know about it. Why because in someways you are the only one who does give the honest feed back reg. However because of that honesty or what you think is helping people can read you the wrong way and just as the one part you highlighted in your above post you misunderstood, so too is sometimes what you write misunderstood.

As for the I never leave the poetry forum part-your right I don't. The relavence of that is?

And for the "scaring them away part" well there have been people that stopped posting for awhile do to the neg critiquing or bashing. I will not name names or break that confidentuality but they have and that is their choice. But it is something that has come up.

As for any specific threads, I am not draging that in here. I interpret the thread to be started probably due to the incident you are talking about, but to be generalized to critiquing. If I was wrong then forgive me.

As I said many times now-I am not meaning anyting personal about this. I do not have a prob with you sic as a person or even antihero. I was merely puting my take on critiquing on the table and offering a different side to the discussion/debate/conversation.