Winterhawk wrote:
actually, I would like to continue this conversation further.
Personally I think that any comment as long as it isn't someone being insulting or just being an ass is perfectly fine and acceptable. I can't see BHM1954 doing either of those things. In fact I would encourage him and it. "excellent image, I just find the content not to my taste". I can't see how that is damaging.

HM has been getting less and less people actively commenting on images year after year. We have been getting more and more active members over the years and less and less comments on images. there was a time were it wasn't uncommon to post a image and less then a day later have 10 comments on the picture before you had to "comment whore" no it seem that you are lucky to get more then 3 comments and it is extremely rare to get more then 5. Part of the problem are a few assholes that have been here over the years. Some artists really do think they are gods gift to the world and everything they do is perfect, so when they hear otherwise they freak out. These are the minority. I say that those that say they want to get critiques ussually also say they want to give critiques. I say start doing it. Send any complaints to me via PM if you don't like it. if you critique and ass and they blast you in a PM, please tell me, I'll take care of them, in my own special way (play banjo deliverance music here). because I would rather have the majority of the site free to comment without fear from the ego-maniacs attacking you. the qualifications to give a critique is having a pair of eyes that can see. Part of making comments is about improving the community as a whole. bringing us together as a group. Just because a person might not like the content of the image doesn't mean his comments on the other factors of the image do not mean anything. now remember the proper way to critique a work is to tell the artist both the possitive and the negative but when you tell the negative do so in a possitive way. tell a persona that their image sucks ass because it is dark. isn't possitive. but telling someone that the lighting is off on a 3d image and because of the amount of darkness and the inability to see the central figure it would be greatly improved it would enhance the image. is very different.

I get good and bad comments all the time. I have a number of people here and at other sites that downright hate me to the core of my being and actively seek me out to make bad comments on my stuff. When they are here, if they are just the weird personal attacks I just delete them and the user, on other sites depending on the site I will not approve the comment or get an admin to remove it. if a comment on your art is so bad that it makes your blood boil PM a mod to have them remove it, if it is extremely bad, the user will also be dealt with. no one here should have to put up with attacks from asses (unless the ass is a mod, then whadda do?)

time is another main concern, I know as time passes I seem to have less and less time to spend on the pc and computer in general. others are also in the same boat. but you would think that now that we have well over 5000 members we would get more comments on the images then when we only had 250 members but the opposite is true.

what does everyone else think?