Quote - OK.   I heard this story somewhere.   An English academic gets a sabbatical at a Spanish university.   He is sitting in the Spanish university library, more or less underneath a sign that translates, "Library Users Are Requested To Refrain from Smoking".   A few feet away, a Spaniard is puffing away like The Flying Scotsman.   Englishman draws Spaniard's attention to the sign and Spaniard, with impeccable logic, points out that smoking is not  forbidden, merely discouraged.   I am reminded of this story when I see

**The artist of this image has indicated the following preference for comments

**That doesn't mean, as it stands, "Negative comments are forbidden", but merely, "The artist would be happier, if you kept your negative comments to yourself".   I think the wording should be more precise, if comments are liable to be deleted for causing upsets.  

As Karen stated earlier, with the new choice for artists to choose whether or not they want constructive criticism or just "Ooohs" and "Aaahs", we are less likely to spend 30% of our time answering IM's and emails from site members who are just so upset that they can't stand it that someone said that there was a better way to tweak the lighting.  While we never really changed or deleted obvious good CC, if it was borderline or obviously attacking, we did. 

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