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| Aug 9, 2012 at 14:03 | comment | added | StrongBad | @AnonymousMathematician thinking about your comment made me realize my working definition of criticism is flawed. Looking up criticism on Wikipedia, for whatever that is worth, made me realize that criticism is not necessarily as negative as I thought. | |
| Aug 9, 2012 at 13:11 | comment | added | Anonymous Mathematician | I disagree with the first sentence: criticism is in itself a valuable activity, for the community at large and even for the original author, and explicit criticism should be encouraged, rather than making people try to read between the lines. However, you're right that gratuitous criticism is a bad thing, and the examples you mention should not be framed as criticism. | |
| Aug 9, 2012 at 8:15 | history | answered | StrongBad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |