[hider=My thoughts]Criticism is fine and welcome, as long as it's tactful. I realize that GM's set their RP's to a certain standard, and it must be upheld for the benefit of all. I'm going to go ahead and say that while I am confident in my posting skills, I often times have difficulty filling out huge character sheets in the way the GM's foresee a character to their liking, mostly because I don't know their style, or the RP's tone. I'm more of an author and I view things that way, and I write stories with characters in mind, not written down, so sometimes I'm not the best at sheets. 

Now, if I get a PM or a message from a GM that goes "Hi, I read your characters. A few things. I need this, this, and this done, and I am curious on this. Might want to flesh it out and switch this around." I'll be glad to help out. Utterly glad.

But if they use words like "I think the problem with your character is," or "this has led me to believe you're not taking this seriously" when, quite honestly, there are clearly well written paragraphs, its taken days to send this in, and I'm in the fukken advanced section and have been in 3 different RP's with you who are questioning me already,...implying that my work was worthy of a "you have to be kidding." 

Well...I'll certainly feel like: 
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It's all about how you say it. It would be an extremely hard task for me not to go "maybe you should look again." Which, quite frankly, is cordial when the implication of what you just said reduced my, or anyone's work, into a joke. 

And also, if you give criticism, you should be able to receive it as well. Like if we are in a Dragonball Z RP and you question a bit of backstory, and I go "well if you look in volume 8, this clearly is here" and you don't like me being, well, correct... 

Simply put, people should be open and welcome to criticism, as long as those who criticize are nice, and willing to discuss things. Though honestly, I'm such a softy I'll probably go "yes sir, yes ma'am" regardless. I hate the idea of hurting someone's feelings over an RP, whether I am in the right or wrong. Usually it's not worth it, and it's a sin of pride to even be that way most of the time.[/hider]