Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24486926-20131105024437/@comment-24486926-20131107165304

Xelrog T. Apocalypse wrote: Metafawker wrote: Oh, is that so? May you please give me the definition of Critique? Also, do you rap or are you a rapper? No, I'm not? Not sure where that came from. Anyway, "critique" is just the French word for "criticism." Same word, different language.

Oh, for Pete's... Look, basically when I said "Criticism," I was pointing toward the destructive examples, and then used "Critique" to discern them from constructive examples.

Certainly, they are synonymous. Granted, but when I said Criticism vs Critique, I probably should have put it into a different context: Criticism vs Trolling. The encouragement of  constructive  criticism (which is what I call critique) is by no means a problem, but it's starting to become excessively unnacceptable to see trolling/destructive criticism/people insulting the  entire wiki  because they read one story. Harsh criticism, such as "This was terrible! For one, *insert harsh criticism here*:" (and I've done harsher, walking the fine line between the two on occasion) is acceptable. The obvious examples "HERP DERP YOU SHOULD GO KILL YOURSELF CAUSE YOUR WRITING SUCKS!" are things we are trying to wind down.

It should go without saying that trolling is unnacceptable. If a story is actually bad, it should be commented with constructive, or positive (not polite, but positive as in making progress) criticism. I made this an issue in the forums because, as I said, we're a small wiki, and though attempts so far to wind down the mass trolling that once plagued us are succeeding, trolling on stories still presents a problem to the growth of the wiki. So therefore, this thread was meant to clarify this and establish the possibility of a written rule, so a troll can't say "I didn't know that was there! When was that a rule?"

It wasn't meant to spark an argument between admins on word definition, savvy?