Actually I have indeed posted critiques on a few images - surprisingly I have more oftenthan not received an email from the creator thanking me for being honest and stating it was helpful. Unfortunately when there is a large group of infected ones posting that an image is fabulous the honest critiques get lost as unimportant, outweighed by the "Oh kewl". One specific artist comes to mind (although there are many). The work never changes, is usually badly put together, same lighting, same blank stare, heck identical looking texture and generally the same hair in every single image. This artist might have gotten better if some had been honest but instead there are droves of "that is awesome!" "that is amazing" "oooh that's hot" etc. comments. Instead of doing the artist a favor by boosting the ego the artist's work has actually gotten worse/sloppier over time with intersecting body parts and slap together images. The infected group still posts that the images are stunning and those who might say otherwise are drowned out or overlooked. The artist is a genuinely nice person with many friends and that only make s the infection take hold all that much more. In reality when looking at a scenario like that one has to realize that they don't actually want critiques - they just want to be told something is pretty. I think that in that case - where a poster really only wants positive feedback they should state - "Did this for fun, not as art or for critiques". I don't think that those who are willing to take constructive criticiscm should have to post something special when that is what the feedback form is supposedly for. My rule of thumb is always find something nice before posting about improvements. Then again I've had an image slammed by someone who simply didn't like the fact that it was a heavy woman posing in the nude which imo is not an art critique but personal taste, there were plenty of actual things wrong with that pic. Sometimes people don't know where that line is.

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