I sometimes wonder if I've been harsh on people in the past, back in the old days on the ATSB group. And of course there's lousyfic... But I guess that's a different kind of place. And I suspect Emerald Princess has a thick skin anyway. ;-)

But I always tried to be polite and never scathing on the ATSB and beta_team, and to point out things I liked too and thought they should do more of - which I can now say that editors do do. My editor had noted things she especially liked during the editing of my books. So if they do it, no reason a beta shouldn't.