"I have seen some authors ask for the type of reviews they wish to receive, critical, all comments welcome or please be gentle with my baby. Haha perhaps this is something that can be incorporated into the submission process so that reviewers have a direction in which to go when they are doing one for a story."

I think that's actually a very good idea -- if one wants to be reviewed then ask for the type of feedback that one would like to receive. One has to bear in mind though that different people (potential reviewers) like different things much as different authors write in different styles. Thus any review or critique is going to be colored by the reviewers' preferences ... with the possible exception being grammar, spelling and formatting, lol. (This is one reason formatting should be standardized and that spelling and grammar be eliminated as any possible issue so that only the content is subject to comment.)

A few years back I wrote a 19 part story (serial I guess it was/is) which combined the elements of witchcraft and bdsm. I've never posted the whole story for various reasons but what I did do with those I've shared it with was to let them read a part at a time and then ask what they thought of certain things about it. Things like: What did you think of this character? How did you like that scene? How did you feel when you read such and such? Basically what I was trying to do was to find out how closely they saw or felt what it was that I'd intended to be seen or felt from what and/or how I'd written said part.

What I discovered is that the more specific you are in your questions the better the feedback. Superlatives tell you nothing substantial. "It was wonderful, great. Loved it." Nor do negatives. "I hated it, it sucked." However, when you get something like, "Yeah, I really got a charge when the twins changed clothes in the kitchen without him knowing. " Or, "What exactly was it he did with the midget chick?" It's then you've got something to work with.

Critiques and reviews can be wonderful things if it helps you improve something you want to improve but not all stories are written and presented with that in mind. Perhaps there should be a category of, "This story is for fun -- no review necessary."