[asragab]

Does any know of a community of practitioners in a field or discipline who are by and large usually impressed by output of the members of that field on a regular basis.

Not rhetorical, asking for myself. I guess, I want to know how much more toxic are we as a community (to the degree you can talk about all folks who read or might read HN as a single monolithic community).

I mean, I know a few artists, they are absolutely savage when it comes to the work of others. Is this a dev problem or human one?

[viraptor]

Indie game art seems to be pretty good. There are some annoying comments, but overall I see lots and lots of positive comments and support.

Even on Twitter, see #screenshotsaturday responses.

[buboard]

from cursory experience in physics and biology is s pretty much the same: sometimes impressed, sometimes cynical, probably spending more time in the latter. IT's only normal and it's good: criticism pushes things forward