Having just seen a similar photo to the one mrmadmike described i just have to add that critical comments are worth a substantial amount more than "buddy system" comments. So to those in this thread complaining about it you will realise that you come out on top in the scheme of things if you only get one critical comment because the "buddy system" posts really dont mean much from a critical/artistic/analytical perspective and only offer (sometimes misguided) encouragement and not pointers.

I have found in the past that if you explicitly say Hit me with constructive critique, i want some, dont be shy now... you will get people trying to be critical - except maybe for those who are doing the copy paste thing and probably dont read the description anyway.

Just my two pence.

Oh and as an idea - maybe follow what dpchallenge does - it has a "critique club" where member volunteers sign up and have their own mini forum/page to handle posting critique on other member's work who have submitted it to the group. The critique is then posted on the person's upload in the comments section.  I'm fairly sure that there are some kind souls out there who wouldnt mind offering some constructive critique - say 5-10 a week? Obviously (like the CC thread) people would have a limit on the amount of times you can submit.
Anyway - it might be difficult to 1. implement 2.get off the ground. 

On the same note - where is yesterday's CC thread? :(

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