Is any critique truly objective?

[billy]

i think it should be as much as possible, is it in truth, mmm thats hard to answer. i think objectivity is relative. my objectivity is probably different than someone else's. i'm not sure either that a harsh critique makes a poem a bad one, so the people who cries when they're done should think twice before complaining. while we may struggle with individual critique being objective i think as a whole it could be seen to be so if enough people respond. not purely objective but the objectivity would be in their, unless of course it's a purely ego based forum.
i think what todd says has some merit but if we try and be honest we can do so without hurting (in the main) i like everyone here and i'll be the first to admit to tempering my feedback, what i don't or won't do is say well done if i don't think that's the case. i think we have lots of people here like that. i think it's one of the reasons why the forum isn't thousands big but i'd prefer a group wit a few who give honest feedback to a group of thousands that mainly spend time in feedback fawning over each other.

i try and look just at the poetry, i think that's the best way.

on another tack. it's hard to give object feedback if you haven't the tools to do so. if you think most the bad poetry out their is good, then that how you'll respond to it. jmo