What do you call a community that is allergic to criticism?
I have seen a tendency online for a lot of communities - especially ones in various creative arts, populated primarily by amateurs - to want to be so welcoming that they frown on any sort of criticism, constructive of otherwise, because it's not seen as being welcoming. I am trying to find a word or short phrase that captures this tendency, specific to creative communities rejecting any sort of criticism whatsoever.
This is different than a community that is merely supportive; this is in regards to a community that is supportive to a fault and does not allow for any sort of constructive criticism that would help members of the community to grow and improve.
The closest I've seen is "hugbox," but that is an incredibly ableist slur, and is also used in other senses as well (often a casual dismissal of a supportive community, or as a form of "groupthink" which is also not the same thing).
Clarification: What I'm talking about is this sort of behavior:
Person A: Here's a song I made. Tell me what you think!
Person B: The music itself is pretty good, but the overwhelming effect processing on the vocals makes it difficult to understand what the singer is singing.
Person C: B, please don't be so negative. We're trying to build a positive community here. A, your song is fine the way it is.
How about an echo chamber community or simply echo chamber? Which would be a community where everybody agrees with everybody, and no criticism is allowed.
echo chamber
A person who totally, obsequiously agrees with everything another person says.
An insular communication space where everyone agrees with the information and no outside input is allowed.
I've seen it used mainly negatively, as in "I'm not your echo chamber" or "The church is not your echo chamber".
hypersensitive
Merriam Webster: "having feelings that are very easily hurt: very strongly and easily affected or harmed by something (such as a drug)"
The Free Dictionary: "1. having unduly vulnerable feelings; 2.(Pathology) abnormally sensitive to an allergen, a drug, or other agent."
Macmillan Dictionary: "very easily upset or offended."
Although the word seems to have started out as describing an abnormally sensitive physiological response to drugs or allergens, it has come to also mean an abnormal or at least unusually sensitive psychlogical response to perceived slights or criticisms.
Sentence: "My daughter is hypersensitive to everything I say about her hair, her clothes or her friends. I can't say anything right!"
An addition: The following may be too strong:
Enosiophobia is the fear of criticism. I doubt the groups of which you speak are composed solely enosiophobes, but a key person, who sets the tone for the others, might be one. See Designed Thinking
http://designedthinking.com/fears/phobia-release/list-of-phobias-by-name/
A circlejerk fits what you're describing here.
A literal circlejerk is a sex act where several men line up in a circle and each man masturbates the man next to him.
This term is applied for figuratively for a community where the foundation of the community is providing validation to others, while receiving validation yourself.
Uncritical means "not expressing criticism or using one's critical faculties" (OED) and has a pejorative sense (at least in my idiolect).
You might describe the community in your example as being one of uncritical reinforcement.