Is any critique truly objective?

[ICSoria]

personally i'd like to see another 5 or 6 competent poets and another 10 or twenty who are fairly new to poetry who want to improve. i think we need more news than competent poets so we keep as much objectivity as possible. what i do hate is when a site begins to have cliques, for me that's the breeding ground for back patting poetry and the loss of any objectivity anyone has.

You make a good point and I must agree the site could use more from that perspective. In past posts, I have alluded to my own aversions to the fluff type of poetry critiques and they do indeed follow behind the cliques. Well said.
Todd, I will also attempt to keep in mind your implied Breathing/Bleeding rule when critiquing.

Sid