Criticism has become so distorted from what it should be that my intention would not even be to criticize. Yet there is no way to suggest any organization could be doing anything better without it someone interpreting it as an attempt to sabotage it. It’s not that I’m afraid of how others will respond. It’s that so many individual actors have come to fear each other and the community itself. It’s too much of a hassle to make it worthwhile to resolve the barrage of hostility from trying to contribute to anything.
I notice that the OP has gotten twenty upvotes—including one from me--, but that I myself have never encountered the phenomenon described. My experience, like D0TheMath’s, is that people who offer criticism are taken seriously. Other people in this comment section, at least so far, seem to have similar experiences.
Could some of the people who’ve experienced such chilling effects give more details about it? By PM if they don’t anticipate as strongly as I do that the responses on the open forum will be civil and gracious?
I notice that the OP has gotten twenty upvotes—including one from me--, but that I myself have never encountered the phenomenon described. My experience, like D0TheMath’s, is that people who offer criticism are taken seriously. Other people in this comment section, at least so far, seem to have similar experiences.
Could some of the people who’ve experienced such chilling effects give more details about it? By PM if they don’t anticipate as strongly as I do that the responses on the open forum will be civil and gracious?