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Honey, let me help you...

"The alternative however, is to maybe acknowledge what it actually was you didn't like, and to give the creator some food for thought, maybe some insight they might not have. There's a saying "Say something nice or don't say anything." and there's a reason that exists, it keeps people from just getting torn down over and over with no incentive to improve."

 - We understand things differently. I think comments are for your emotions after playing a specific game, and ratings are for showing what you like or not in detail. Comment = emotion. If I would think that comments are for "constructuive criticism", I would've posted something else.
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 - Why would I want an author who's work I don't like to "evolve" or "give him some food for thoughts"? Authors may do what they want, and they surely won't listen to everything you don't like, or they may end up making something that they dislike themselves.
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 - No one says "you can only post constuctive criticism here, nothing else" before you post your comment.

"I'm not saying you're not allowed to dislike, or even hate it, totally your opinion."

 - You literally said that: ""Say something nice or don't say anything." and there's a reason that exists, it keeps people from just getting torn down over and over with no incentive to improve." 

"You're right, you can absolutely come in here and just be a dick about an artist's freely public, carefully designed, creative project that is already a super niche, difficult genre that they've worked hard on, say "Eww, gross" and just leave." 

 - A dick? You mean "Nuh uh, don't like" sounds like me being a dick? Oh, wow I've never thought it hurts so much. Or maybe you're such a big fan that every wrong word is an assault to you? Anyway, it's not my business but I don't see anything offensive here.

Yeah, that's pretty much it. Almost every misunderstanding was in the end answered in my previous comment. You just have to pay some extra attention.
I wonder if there will be more comments with someone else trying to bring up the same topic again, telling me I'm "bad" and all the other users are "good, but only if they like the game".

Yes, I agree.

Thank you! Deleting the whole thread in a short while because of how bloated it became.