Eddie, stop being a smartass, alright? I'm as serious as a heart attack about this. There's a world of difference between someone being flamed over posting a stupid link in the Chat Forum, and being flamed for posting something personal that they had the balls to share with the forum.

You know just as well as I do what constitutes a flame, and the above quote is walking the line. That's not an opinion towards the work itself or an offering of genuine assistance. That's a nicely worded attack on the advancement of the writer's intellect. That's a sugar-coated version of saying "you're an idiot and you aren't smart enough to write good shit."

If you have negative comments, then either use them to assist the writer in bettering the product, or aim your opinions at the work and not the writer. Explain why you didn't like it. Don't just say "that poem sucked."