How many of you like harsh criticism on your blog?
To review a blog, I think this information is necessary. I'm so happy to review your blog if you don't complain by saying "you must appreciate my view point also. This is my blog."
You can say whatever you want about my blog. You can comment to it without waiting for approval.
I would love to have harsh criticism. That would pin point exactly what I need to improve on, and work upon!
I have submited my review to your blog.
I posted my reply. Thank you! 
As far as it is a review, I love it. Even on posts, I don't find it bad till the time it is not abusive and there is a logic to support it.
Of course if someone comes and says, "You write crap!!!", with no logic/evidence to prove it I am gonna block him/her for ever.
Yeah, that's what I meant. Meaningful negative comments!
Yeah exactly. But some people just write "good post" everywhere...that irks me too. It makes it seem like that person didn't read the post at all!
Yes. Couldn't agree more with both the points 'you write crap' and 'Good post'. We once had this thing in our school when we wrote one good and bad thing about one another. I was the first one, i made some very good points about people. And when their chance came, they said, you are very good human being and i was like.. what?
sorry, but I do not agree with you. If I feel you write crap (I have seen your blog and I have not felt so) , I must say so. Or do not say anything at all!
sorry, but I do not agree with you. If I feel you write crap (I have seen your blog and I have not felt so) , I must say so. Or do not say anything at all!
@Jayakumar Animesh doesn't mean that. What he means to say is that if you think someone writes crap, don't just say "You write crap" and go away. Give reasons. And harsh criticism doesn't require someone to be mean.
@ Antara. That is the point of debate. If someone feels like a blog is nothing more than "crap", he doesn't need to explain why. A writer can expect a reason. But he can only expect. Can not demand.
Oh, Is is so? I really need your help now.
There have been times, where I enjoyed reading the whole of post, bought a good smile on my face, I mean, really enjoyed reading it. But when it came to commenting, I really had nothing to say. I just say "Great post!". I never knew people thought it that way. HELP ME!!!!
@Jayakumar JI... I kind of disagree with you. If you don't like it, don't read it. But calling it "crap" wouldn't be nice. Say, I don't like tech blogs. That doesn't mean I go and write "This is crap". I simply don't read it!
Jayan, first thanks for kind words.
Now, coming to the point of criticism, let me tell you my perspective. In blogging and writing world, I have seen many people who write crap and become popular (by unfair or unknown reasons) and think taht they are excellent writers. A lot of these people cannot take it when people praise other really good writers and their one point agenda is to go to such blogs and put hate comments. Similarly, people do this out of personal enemity, too. And, I have seen a lot of such things.
This is why I said, if you criticize, tell me the reason. I don't demand, but I can of course expect. And then, I have every right to ban/block such people, at the minimum, right?
You are right Ritvik. But blogs (most of them) are also a form of art, which is meant to touch the heart of the reader. So if doesn't touch the heart of the reader, its bad for that reader. If ninetynine people say its good and one says its bad, we can not conclude that since ninetynine say that its good we can neglect the one. We must realise that it couldn't touch one man's heart.
Every word you said is right Captain. There can be many reasons behind a hate comment. They can be, he is jealous, to please someone, simply lying. Or he didn't genuine like it. How can we find the truth? So what I think is that a hate comment seen beneath a post can be deleted. But here in the review section we must allow any hate comments.
@Jayakumar.. I would still disagree with you. I don't write blog for my readers, I write it for myself. I consider it as a platform to showcase my thoughts. If someone doesn't like it, don't read it. If someone appreciates, thank you!
Even if all 100 person says they don't like it, It's okay! Don't read it, I still keep writing, simply because I love doing it.
Jayan, again there is a disagreement. Hate comments are not welcome. There are ways to say the same thing and hate comments are obviously not a civilized way.
Ritiwik, I disagree with you too. If you write for yourself, please block your blog for public access so that no one apart from you can read it. Had that been the case (that you write for yourself only), you would not have been on the forum in the first place
@Capt.. By writing for myself, I mean, I write what I want to write. If someone comes to me and say, you're doing it wrong, and that you should quit it, I just can't take that. Don't read me, if you don't like me!
However, I always welcome suggestions!
And as I said, I consider this as a blog to showcase my thoughts. Showcase to whom? To the public!
So lets check that with an example. if someone tells you( in the 'review my blog' section) that you must stop blogging, do you take it as a hate comment? I do not consider it as hate comment.
@Jayakumar.. I don't know for whom the question is. But I'll answer that.
I'll just say "Thank you for your time". I'll go back to my blog to write a new post!
the question was to captain. your reply was evident from the previous comment.
You put the effort on your blog and some person comes and tells you to stop blogging, you wont consider it as a hate comment or even rude? If that person puts the details as to why he finds it wrong, that is criticism and you can work on it if you think its valid. If there is no reason, I find that to be mean and hate comment.
@all.. No harsh feelings intended for anyone though! 
Jayan, if someone has written this much without any prelogue or postlogue, I will not take it as a hate comment. Will take it in a right spirit and ask him why he/she thinks so and how I can improve myself. Of course replying to me or not depends on that person and he/she may choose not reply back or clarify it. But, I will try my best to get a reply.
In case, all my efforts are fruitless, I will try to find out other ways to discover the fault with my writing and correct them.
Now we have an accord Captain. I agree totally with your last reply.
Finally
However, there is a difference between "You must stop blogging" and "you write crap". This is where I said that there is a way of saying same things in different ways
@ captain - It is not always necessary to get a reply either. There are folks who just don't like certain genres. So no point asking what they don't like. When somebody doesn't like Tolkien, I don't expect the person to like my fantasy nor have I the slightest interests in his or her reasons.
I think you can say 'its crap' just as 'good post' when you are COMMENTING on something given that you state the reason why you found the particular post crappy.
but when it comes to REVIEW something, i dont think you can just GENERALIZE the whole patchwork of writings uder the tag of 'crap' without giving any reason!!
a blog can have so MANY things varying from good to bad to exceptional!!
@TF, If someone does not like my genre, there is no point in he/she reading it. And even if they read it, calling it crap or giving harsh comments is something I'll call illogical or unethical altogether. If I know that I don't like potato (BTW, I like it a lot), even after that I go to a restaurant, order for crispy potato chips and then say that this place is a crap, they don't make good food, how good is that?
Oh yes. As long as it is honest and not mean, I would love some! Whenever someone gives me his/her honest opinions, I am so grateful :)
I do not see the thread to review your blog. Have you not added it? By the word mean, what i mean is mean words. if someone says one should stop blogging, its not a mean comment.
No I haven't :P Can you send me an Indimail?
I know what 'mean' is.
If someone says one should stop blogging it is not mean? Really? I have seen crappy posts and have told people to improve upon them...but telling them to stop blogging! Wow no! If it pleases them, makes them happy, then why should they stop blogging? There is a difference between honestly criticising and being mean.
when someone comments to our posts, he is just a reader(though he is another blogger). And a reader doesn't need to tell us the reasons? Its the same way we review films. We only say its good or bad. Since we are all bloggers, we don't do that to another blogger. But here in the review section, I think we must comment as being a reader only. We must say whatever we feel bad about a blog.
I'll send you indimail. Before that you will need to add me to your network.
@ captain - It is not always necessary to get a reply either. There are folks who just don't like certain genres. So no point asking what they don't like. When somebody doesn't like Tolkien, I don't expect the person to like my fantasy nor have I the slightest interests in his or her reasons.
I would like you to be honest in your criticism. Sweet or Harsh, doesnt matter.
I have submitted my review to your blog.
Yes absolutely, I am a begginer and I would like to improve. If theres someone to pinpoint my mistakes then theres nothing better than that.
I have submitted my review to your blog.
I can never take a harsh criticism however honest it is. i just can't. i start to hate the person who says bad things about my blog. :/
Then I'm sorry Vineet.
But I'd really love your review about it. I am sure by now, you won't just write anything.
I've submitted my review about your blog.
I appreciate constructive criticism. But of course I will argue my point of view in case I feel I have a reply to the criticism.
Unfortunately we can not argue. If someone tells me my blog is bad, I can only ask him why. If he says nothing more than "I felt so", what can I do? Anyway I'll review your blog.
Thanks Jayakumar. Please do so. What I meant is if you show me specific points, it is possible I might have a reason for doing certain things the way I do. I would of course respond with my justifications. If you are a genuine reader who likes reading good literature, this might help you appreciate it better and we might have a fruitful discussion that could be mutually benefetial. You can of course chose to say you don't consider my works literature at all and stop there. That is purely your choice.
I agree with TF.. criticisms are well and good, but the writer puts the effort into the write. If I have a reply to your criticism of my blog, I will definitely back my blog to the hilt.
I'm not too fond of harsh criticism of my blog or any work I do for that matter. But I pride myself on accepting every critism with a pinch of salt, taking out the postives from the comment. However, a comment that plainly writes off my blog with a rude "It Sucks!" or anything on the same lines without a valid explanantion or suggestion, I am known to get a little touchy :D
Any how, if anyone has some free time to burn, do go through my blog for some light hearted yet socially motivated reading and don't forget to leave your "harsh" review! ;)
Enjoy!
I've submitted my review to your blog.
as far as its a review i woyuld love it
waiting for bloggers on my blog ;)
I have submitted my review to your blog.
I for one won't like a harsh comment/review on my blog. The simple reason being, criticism can be dished out without involving harshness in it, and also by pointing the issues/problem and offering a possible solution to it too.
Review my blog... And yeah that should not deter anyone from giving genuine criticisms... Criticisms are welcome, harshness? No.
I'm sorry but I don't agree with you.
That's k... I don't expect everyone to agree with me...
There won't be no fun in this world if everybody agrees with everybody else.... 
Though I do not trouble you with my review(because I can not guarantee you that I won't be harsh), I request you to review mine. Be sweet or harsh. Let it be the way you like. Will you review my blog?
Harsh feedback ? :P lol///
Is there anything like harsh/ soft feedback while giving a honest feedback....
I hate giving harsh feedbacks, who the hell we are to rate and behave harsh on an another blogger?i ll be calm and serene in comments, when someone cross the line, i will burst in to AGNI :)
and at last, i dont want any reviews as of now... am happy with what my blog is :)No one is perfect and am no one :)
Fine Deepak. As you please.
Deepak, kudos!!! Really well said. Feedback is so subjective that I frankly don't care for unasked ones. There are some people whose wisdom and experience gels with mine--in such a case I ask them privately to help me improve. And then I hold their words with full sincerity and enact that change.
Exactly Bhavana. I completely agree with you. That's why I demand unconditional invitation to review a blog. And I when I review a blog, I try my best to make it frank and honest.
@Sameer. I have not yet given a harsh comment to anyone. I seldom do that. But I review your blog only if you are ok with any harsh comments.
Let me add from my own experience..i had asked for a review...for a long time there was no reply....then psychecentral REALLY appraised it & told me what all was wrong with my blog...now since i am not good at the tech side i had let so many faults carry on in my template thinking i won't be able to correct it....but her review made me sit up,i made efforts & wow-i liked the new look of my blog...i am very grateful to her for having taken the trouble to review AND give an honest comment.
correction-it was psychebabbler not psychcentral
And where is my review Jayan? 
And mine too
Will give you. You and Leo need some time for review. I'll definitely give my review.
I'm reading your, leo and TFs blogs. I'll post my review. There's a lot to read to make a first hand judgement.
I do not see the thread for reviewing your blog.
@Captain, I do not see thread for reviewing your blog.
Leo, I do not see the thread for review on your page also. Is that because they are pushed back by the new threads?
Jaya, just go to my profile. It'll be under my blog.. I'm asking for a review to my English blog, not the Hindi one.
@Captian, Leo, I have submitted my reviews.
Jayan, don't want to disappint you, but to me it seemed to more like comments on posts rather than a blo-review
you have blogged a lot captain. It is not easy to review your blog. I have mentioned that on the review. That's why I made my review based on the posts I read.
Agree Jayan, but again it was more of a comment rather than a review. A review on posts will talk about my writing style, selection of words etc. and not my view. What you said there was more about the view I have expressed on the post
I purposefully do not touch that area Captain. I mainly focus on the views of a blogger while reviewing. Though opinion on writing style can also be included in a review, how many bloggers will like to hear "you need to improve on your writing skills"?
Me, if you tell me improvement areas also.
For opnion on views, I would prefer a comment on the post itself rather than on the review forum
for you, I don't have any suggestion to change anything in your writing style. You have churned out this style through immense writing. No suggestions to change anything in it.
sure. as long as it is a honest review which would help me become a better writer/poet, a harsh review is welcome...
You can not demand anything Kirti. Please see the example I've cited in my reply to Neha. Don't you agree with me?
no i dont. movies are about entertainment for people who go for watching them. blogging for many us(at least to me) means a form of grooming an art called 'writing'. Blogging is a passion and you cant just throw away somebody's passion with just a one line review! and whats wrong in telling WHAT you didnt like in a blog. its as if you would make a statement and the poor writer will keep on battling his head trying to think where he had gone wrong!
and the whole point of a review is to examine a thing with an eye of criticism and correction. when you tag a movie and 'bad' or 'good' i think you are simply giving your OPINION about it and not a review...
I'm not really a fan of harsh critisism. If someone is harsh in their words, that would only make me feel about about myself and I would end up having a bad opinion on that person for making me feel bad!
I welcome friendly and honest critism though. One that makes sense to acknowledge.
But do we do that always? What do we write about newly released movie on facebook? We only write it is good or bad. if it is bad we just say its bad. We never give reasons. So to our blogs also a simple sentence " your blog is waste of time" must be approved as a review.
Really? You aren't reviewing on FB.. your sharing an opinion. Take the review section of a newspaper like Deccan Herald.. there'll be a rating, from Outstanding to Worthless, but it'll be justified by why that movie got that rating.. whether it had an awesome or horrid plot, or the music was there.. what was good and/or what was bad.. A movie isn't a blog.. it cannot be built upon, bettered and re-released, but a blog, and the writer who writes there, that can be improved.
Well Said, Leo! And, even in FB, it takes a particularly rude and insenstive person to put up a comment saying "Your movie was crap" on the wall of the movie-maker -esp. without giving any reasons.
But why are you comparing a movie to a blog? Movies are made for commecial purposes. They demand money from people to watch those movies. Obviously movies demand critisism. If a movie is really bad and just doesn't make sense to the mass community, it will then deserves a harsh review because people tend to get harsh if they have wasted their money on a bad movie.
But blogs are not for commercial purposes. Maybe some blogs are. But majority of writers here are bloggers who are trying to share their writing talents, with hopes that they get good feedback. I think a person should be really insane to visit a blog and just write "your blog sucks!". I agree with Leo here.
What else that person must say if he felt like he wasted reading a blog? We can delete that comment since that may convey a wrong message to other readers. But we can never say he shouldn't say it at all.
When we compare blogs with movies, we must understand both of them are art forms. All art forms gets similar type of reviews. Let it be films, books, newpaper articles, blogs, dance, drama, music etc. etc. etc
correction. he wasted his time reading the blog.
