@drisoceles,
ja, daran erinnere ich mich noch, ich nannte mal seine pferde \"hautlos\" (oder sowas) weil sie meiner Meinung durch die akzentuierung so aussahenen, als ob die Muskeln/fleisch blank liegen
My general opinion about Criticism/praising ,
The baddest thing to do, is to be to friendly/unfriendly, if you don´t really think so.
Somebody once called criticism in german boards, \"Wattebäuschchen Kritik\" (soft feather pillows criticism) because sometimes, and in some boards, criticism doesn´t happen,
or they say a little bit of criticism, just to follow with the sentence that everything ist absolutely magnificent glorious wonderful.
When sombody posts Miniatures, and asks for critic, then im quite honest, and I expect that from the people whom i ask critic about my miniaatures (I just remembered the critic that the eyes of a cowboy looked like fish eyes. First it hurt a bit, but then i realized that it was true)
But if somebody is a beginner, criticism should be well placed and good things should also be commented.
If somebody posts Pictures of a completely painted army Fire and fury army in 28mm, people commenting should realize, that the owner won´t repaint them because \"you\" think that the contrasts are too strong,
So for completed Armys I just criticise in a polite way, and never forget to say sth positive (which there is most of the time much more than negative)
What i miss in Germany is a common understanding of criticism, or the way to criticise
We don´t have sth
In England you have Debatings in school, and such stuff, thats sth which i really envy you.
I once saw a school (our english teacher got it from a trip to england) debate about forbidding smoking, between smokers and nonsmokers, and the thing, that the smokers won the argument because of their ability to argue, was very impressive
In germany often theres no argument, or people argue on a very personal level,
until somebody takes a big hammer ( in the smoking case, the health care hammer) and just decides the situation by force
