I know it has probably always been a problem, but there seems to be an ever increasing trend for people to comment, often in a purportedly considered fashion, on images – without actually ever opening the full size image to inspect it – making a mockery of much of the praise and technical evaluation they have lavished on it. You know the kind of thing – lots of comments like ‘great focus/sharpness/DOF/detail etc etc ‘ and then you open the full size image and think ‘what the hell?’ followed swiftly by a dart of self doubt wondering if they were even looking at the same image you were.
This is a problem that seems to be exacerbated in ‘fan club’ scenarios where artists receive complimentary posts from the same set of members routinely `that could quite literally be copy and pasted from one image to the next in the same gallery. Whilst it’s clearly obvious that there a few Martians who genuinely seem to feed off of this and use it as nest lining – I still can’t believe that every other oxygen breather values it in any shape or form. Sure it has been discussed at length before that ‘a bit of sugar goes down better than spite’ and for certain it does, but the treacle lakes that wash over lots of work really devalues it to the larger extent and I’m sure/would hope that people would genuinely prefer nothing at all over a dollop of syrup that has no realistic critique or comment to it.
Am I being weird? Is it just me? These days there just seems to be a Saccharin overdose sufficient enough to bring down a charging rhino rather than the preferred ‘spoonful of sugar’. All I’m suggesting is that people ease off on the sweetener and perhaps intersperse it with more considered and objective commentary or just spread the net a little further and investigate/comment on a stranger’s piece instead. On the flip side of that, members used to the sweet, actively seek out and act on the savoury instead of just ignoring it and letting it sink in the pool of syrup.
This is a problem that seems to be exacerbated in ‘fan club’ scenarios where artists receive complimentary posts from the same set of members routinely `that could quite literally be copy and pasted from one image to the next in the same gallery. Whilst it’s clearly obvious that there a few Martians who genuinely seem to feed off of this and use it as nest lining – I still can’t believe that every other oxygen breather values it in any shape or form. Sure it has been discussed at length before that ‘a bit of sugar goes down better than spite’ and for certain it does, but the treacle lakes that wash over lots of work really devalues it to the larger extent and I’m sure/would hope that people would genuinely prefer nothing at all over a dollop of syrup that has no realistic critique or comment to it.
Am I being weird? Is it just me? These days there just seems to be a Saccharin overdose sufficient enough to bring down a charging rhino rather than the preferred ‘spoonful of sugar’. All I’m suggesting is that people ease off on the sweetener and perhaps intersperse it with more considered and objective commentary or just spread the net a little further and investigate/comment on a stranger’s piece instead. On the flip side of that, members used to the sweet, actively seek out and act on the savoury instead of just ignoring it and letting it sink in the pool of syrup.