A short rant, I daresay
StumpedAlthough I myself love comments of all kinds, I prefer to reserve giving my comments (aside from thank-you's for faves, regardless of accompanying comment) for something meaningful, when something strikes me particularly hard for good or bad and I simply cannot control myself. I usually will not say anything if all I have to say is "great job" or "wonderful" or "your artwork sucks" or even the dreaded "lol." Occasionally I will do this, especially if the artist is a newbie to the DA and I'm in a mood to encourage and add to their stats; mostly, however, leaving such messages, especially on highly-viewed pages, is a waste of my time, the artist looking for constructive criticism's time, and the comment reader's time. We know your artwork is good. Otherwise I wouldn't be wanting to fave it and you wouldn't have so many views.
"Do not fave unless you comment." You've got to be freaking kidding me. A fave is a compliment. And an artist should be grateful that someone faves their work, regardless of whether or not they comment, because that means the faver enjoyed the favee's artwork enough to want to look at it again. I refuse to fave anyone's work who require's a comment to go with it, because I don't enjoy people putting rules on my handing out of compliments. Take the goddamn compliment, and let me sneak away in peace. Appreciate that I can earnestly enjoy your work without giving lipservice I would rather not.
The reverse is also true. Comment without faving, if you have something to say. So, I close with this: fave and runs, fave and comments, comments, and constructive criticisms are welcomed, appreciated, and anticipated.
Now, let the flaming of this rant begin.
Devious Comments
When I'm in a search for new picks to fav, I generally never comment. Sometimes I'll comment and never fave as well. I do that with friends and such, I love their work, but I don't need to fav everything they do, or even comment on it all.
The people who are already spectacular I'm sure appreciate the comments, but they don't exactly need 100 "wow"s. Like you said, if it's a new person or someone who wants critiquing, then that's when a comment is pretty important.
I do give thankyous to whoever favs my stuff, regardless of if they commented (most of them don't)
And I also make sure to put the title of the picture in the thankyou, cause if they're anything like me, they'll fav about five pics at a time and forget who drew what.
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"And eventually, they were rescued by...oh, lets say...Moe"
"That's why you're the judge and I'm the law-talkin' guy".
I'm Sarabi in FATtimon's Lion King DA Crew <ahref=[link]
Shout it loud and proud from the rooftops, "I fave and run!"
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If you find yourself struggling with lonliness, remember you aren't alone. And yet you are alone. So very alone.
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xxx
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"And eventually, they were rescued by...oh, lets say...Moe"
"That's why you're the judge and I'm the law-talkin' guy".
I'm Sarabi in FATtimon's Lion King DA Crew <ahref=[link]
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If you find yourself struggling with lonliness, remember you aren't alone. And yet you are alone. So very alone.
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If you find yourself struggling with lonliness, remember you aren't alone. And yet you are alone. So very alone.
...and I get comments that go 'wow' and that's all folks. Take what you get and give nothing back! I won't comment unless there's somethng there that just takes my breath. People shouldn't be so nit-picky.
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Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney
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