I don't post negative comments. What I will do, if I see something to comment on about the image is very gently give a "This looks a little bit off, here's one possible way to correct it or improve it" type of comment, but I too always end on a positive note with my comments.

I never just post "I don't like this" and if it's a new user to the programme, I try to encourage them, rather than just go 'this sucks!' because new users are so very sensitive to what they're doing. They come into this and they know they're wading in the big pond with all the big fish that have been there for years and they can sometimes be very quick to get a hand-slap and run to another pond somewhere else.

That said... I don't even post a whole lot of 'fix this, tweak that' type of comments to begin with. Only rarely do I make a comment like that. And of the few times I have done so, most of the times it's been met with dignity, though there was one very recent time that the artist decided to get snarky and left a snarky comment in 'retaliation' on one of my images after doing so. I just let that sort of thing ride.

If you're posting in the galleries, yes, expect some negativity, I'd say. What you like, or you prefer, isn't neccessarily what others do, and if you don't have a thick skin and aren't able to take critique or comments, you shouldn't be enabling comments on your images anyway. IMO, for what it's worth, there you go. LOL

~ Seliah