Anasta opened this issue on May 16, 2007 · 60 posts
ThrommArcadia posted Wed, 16 May 2007 at 10:25 PM
With so many threads recently complaining about the style of commenting, I'm almost afraid to post comments anymore!
I almost always try to make a unique and qualitative comment on a picture, but sometimes I just don't have time. Still, when I see something I like I do want to leave a bit of encouragement.
I will admit that I did once try to do a bunch of copy and paste commenting. I had so many artists in my favorites and I had the ebots sending me fistfuls of notices. A week had gone by and I had not had a chance to get to Renderosity to look around.
So, anyway, I decided to make a notepad list with four comments that I figured might cover any occasion.
Can you guess what happened?
Well after submitting two or three poor artists to my drive-by commenting, I foudn myself faced with a pic that needed so much more then I could have predicted. I ended up writing something specific. Then, I landed on another pic where I felt I should expand upon my copy/paste comment. This suddenly became the norm. I spent four or five hours trying to get caught up on my ebots and then went cruising the gallery, because it just seemed like a great day for Rendo-art.
Yeah, so I tried the copy/paste thing once and couldn't really go through with it.
I have since disabled my ebots and just drop by my faved artists when I get the chance.
On the subject of recieving. Well, I do like it much more when someone says something specific about what i've posted. Oh, and I have had a few head-scratcher comments that can only be explained by drive-by commenting! I've never really cared too much, though. Maybe I'm just another attention whore. lol