User blog comment:Xxthegirlonfirexx/Don't hate. Just don't/@comment-4832646-20140415164203/@comment-5619531-20140415171517

What's better? To ass-pat the writer and treat them like the child, because they ask for "nice" criticism? Or constructive criticsm, which can go both ways? This is a literature site, not a fucking daycare center. We read the stories and we criticize them, if we choose to do so.

Critisism may always never be nice. You will realize that as life goes on. It can be good criticism, like "Hey, your story was good! Make more!", or it can be constructive criticism, like "The story was vague in every detail, too many spelling mistakes, you should have made the character do this or that."

If you request for nice criticism on the Writer's Workshop Board, it wouldn't really be a value for the time for the users who are reviewing the story. Because if you do ask for nice criticism, your thread will probably be closed and it wouldn't be much of a value of time for your story to get the views and the help that it needs.

TL;DR - Good Criticism = ass-patting the writer, and telling them that their story is good when it sucks all the way.