You argue that the point of this is to bully artists who are uninterested in improvement to leave websites so you don't have to pick through their crap?
In the second-to-last paragraph, yes, partially. In the last one I am saying that if you take the call for criticism to an extreme, you risk the departure of people who were contributing positively, even if not as positively as you wished.
I think the idea of creating a new site for high-quality work (or perhaps promoting work to it) is likely to be more successful than forcing it on an existing one. I have seen people leave furry websites because they cannot stand even the slightest critical comment from others. If criticism were implemented as a policy in any significant way, I expect they would leave the site concerned in droves.
In the second-to-last paragraph, yes, partially. In the last one I am saying that if you take the call for criticism to an extreme, you risk the departure of people who were contributing positively, even if not as positively as you wished.
I think the idea of creating a new site for high-quality work (or perhaps promoting work to it) is likely to be more successful than forcing it on an existing one. I have seen people leave furry websites because they cannot stand even the slightest critical comment from others. If criticism were implemented as a policy in any significant way, I expect they would leave the site concerned in droves.