**"If you put no effort into your image, why would you expect anything but jeers from people who do put effort into their images (whether wholly self-made or not)."

No reason to expect anything but, however decent artists started somewhere and remember their own early efforts. If they bother leaving any critique at all, they are helpful rather than cutting. Example: Here's what's I find wrong and here's how to improve it.

I find the insulting and often simply erroneous criticisms come from people who don't even have galleries and haven't a clue about what they are writing about. Of course you have to only look at this thread to find the proof to that point. They are trolls, pure and simple.

As far as the glowing positives, there are often pics I want to acknowledge, but time is limited. A simple "that's great" is all I feel the need to post, just like there are times when an experimental but flawed render is all I feel the need to post.

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