blimp:
I have nothing against commenters suggesting how they feel the story may be improved but the bottom line is if you didn't actually like the story why would you bother commenting? We are after all a mixed bunch with differing tastes. Why comment on a story unless you have at least something positive to say about it? Unless of course you are suffering from that debilitating condition known to us in the medical profession as "commentitus"! The main symptom of this dreadful disease being a fanatical desire to leave comments on every story one reads! The only known cures being either a visit to Miss Thrashbottom or a night on the town with Her Pinkness!! Of course I wouldn't wish that on anybody!
Well, IMHO there's no contradiction between basically enjoying a story and still feeling that it could be improved--I tend to believe that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, commenters do like the stories (or at least parts of them) which they respond to in cyberprint, but that doesn't mean that they can't offer 'constructive criticism.'
Of course, I do experience "commentitus" quite often myself, but I hardly wish to be cured of it--so perhaps I'd be better off experiencing a punitive visit to Her Pinkness and then going out for "a night on the town" with Miss Thrashbottom.
However, being disciplined by Her Pinkness in a position which would allow her to get the full weight of those oversized hips behind her swings of the paddle, strap, crop or cane--according to pictures of the woman that you've posted here, that could be a truly devastating chastisement. Perhaps one would be safer being spanked by Her Pinkness in the OTK position--except that, again according to your photographs of her, it seems that she really wouldn't have enough of a lap for that. (I certainly can't insult you by doubting the veracity of those pictures which you've provided on occasion.)
While going out "on the town" with 'Miss T' would undoubtedly be an enlightening experience ("Damn, I never knew that there were so many S-&-M dungeon clubs in this city. Another couple to go, you say?"), I'm still suspicious that it would end up with her male escort being thrashed by her afterward anyway ("Weren't those canings I took from your sisters at 'Club Dominatrix' enough for tonight?").
Getting back to the topic at hand, however, I'm guessing that the original suggestion that comments on stories should be "polite and friendly" was a reference to their underlying tone rather than their actual content...

--C.K.