User blog comment:Justindavid23/How harsh criticism can help/hurt the writer./@comment-25052433-20140806074936/@comment-25052433-20140806233547

Well here's the thing, if you critique the writer, and they refuse to take any advice and continue to make the same mistakes, that is when you simply have to walk away from giving that person advice.

Advice is given as a courtesy. If they take it, or at the very least acknowledge your assistance, then that is great, and you can take that as a win.

If they refuse to accept your help, then it's their loss, simple as that.

Think about it like this, if you walked past someone and said "good morning" to them as they walked by, and they didn't respond, would you chase them down and demand a positive reply?

Hopefully not. You would most likely just write them off and probably not speak to them the next time you saw them.

Advice is just like that "good morning" you offered. It is a courtesy. If they accept, awesome, if not, well, they just lost a good critic and probably a good source of information. Their loss, not yours.