when someone criticizes them
I wasn't criticizing them. We were all slow when we started. If i tell someone that he is slow, that doesn't mean i'm either insulting them or criticizing them. Those are just the facts and then i try to give advices to improve and i've always answered on threads where people ask for help.
I just believe RD should focus a bit more on quality and do what they can to improve it. If you watch the league that you've just won, you can see that the driving standard is too low for it to be called league. This community should work more on improving with guides, threads about technique, driving style, setups, incidents (even those...). At the moment incidents are tabou, while they should actually be one of the main topics on a simracing forum. How can people learn if there are no examples on the forum?
Just think how you learned to race, your entire simracing career. I don't know you, but i learnt most of the stuff i know from other sources, simply because RD doesn't have them and no one talks about them.
Imho, racedepartment should change its focus and the main topic should be the driving, not hardware issues, software issues, mods...Not that they shouldn't talk about those things, but they should be subsections of the forum and not the main topic.
I don't know if i explained myself clearly but i believe this community would be way better if we all focused a bit more on improving the quality of the races we have here.