Renderosity has now addressed this problem IMO with the optional types of comment request. If a member has made a mistake when uploading by allowing critical and non critical comments it is their mistake and no one giving the comment should feel bad for following that request.

However I understand fully because in my experience: help, advice or critique is not always well received even when someone has specifically asked for it in the description of their image.

Since joining Renderosity I have only ever seen one comment that was specifically directed at causing upset to the person posting the image. It was not on an image of mine but I still felt obliged to report the comment as abusive to the staff and it was removed, hopefully before the person posting the image saw it. At all other times what I have seen is people doing their best to help and support people posting images. I do not always agree with the critique or advice given but that is what it is all about - a world full of different views and opinions and each persons view is as valuable as the next.  

From me personally a big thank you to everyone who gives their time to share their experience and expertise. I may not always agree with you, but I value your contribution immensely.

 

 

  

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html