Quote - Maximizing exposure? Well, I guess the hints are obvious. A little cynical, true. Then again, I'm not going to change my themes and style just to get more hits. I just keep doing what I like best. Hits and comments are nice, sure, but they don't really influence what I'm doing (unless a comment contains useful critique, of course).

Agreed.
I have my own thing as well, and I won't change my work, but I'll do what other things I can if I can find them. :)

Hits and comments are important to me. They are the only way I can know my 'message' gets out there. Art is communication (in my opinion) and not self-expression. If it were just self-expression I could keep all my ideas inside my head where they are formed perfectly and without the flaws of limited skills and tools. :tongue1:

So when I do art, somewhere in there is something I want to communicate, even if I am not really aware of what it is. I want to get it out there, and I have a need to know when I succeed at that.

To that end I find galleries like artzone to be extremely frustrating with their lack of hit counts. Outside of comments I have no way to ever know if anyone saw what I posted. I get the least comments there, and that makes me feel I am unknown there.

I agree that the new galleries are frustrating. But then I have found a number of the changes frustrating. I was particularly frustrated when they started limiting browing to only images in the past few months. To get anything older you have to view by artist. Not long ago you could browse the renderosity galleries all the way back to image number 1. You still can, but only if you already know who posted it...

It seems to be all about two or three things:

1. timing of the post. :unsure:
2. thumbnails. :woot:
3. building a network of cross favoriting with key people. (brown-nosing) :tt2:

Truth has no value without backing by unfounded belief.
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