What you're asking for, Mark, is setting limits on the range of negative comments prior to your posting on a crit site, while still garnering the attention of critters you respect.
So, in other words, you want to hear what you want to hear when you want to hear it from the people you want to hear it from.
You aren't interested in exposing your work to the risk of genuine crits, but you want the attention of those that deliver them. So the very thing that makes the critters credible in your mind is what must be curtailed if they are to approach your work in a fashion you find palatable.
The solution, in your mind, is to ask everyone else to change.
Another solution is to post, take all the crits for what they're worth, according to your own standards, in the comfort of your own home, thank the critters for taking the time regardless of what they say, make your own decisions about what to do next, according to your own standards, in the comfort of your own home, and move on.
A solution that would enable you to post again, while allowing everyone else on the site to be just as they are.
[This message has been edited by Ethan Anderson (edited November 17, 2006).]
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