LOL vangogh! Good for you! You make an excellent point.

This thread has been about ratings. How to rate, what to rate, ways to rate, etc. Maybe the solution is simply to ignore the ratings entirely. Maybe the point is that there is no point.

A good image is a a good image. It needs no rating. Ratings should not be validations for an artist.

Damn, if you like it, the hell with everybody else!

Make your art for you. Be selfish about your art. It's yours, your work. Please yourself first. Don't cater to the Madding crowd.

So let's just let the ratings go the way of the wind. Comment if you like the work, pass if you don't.

Keep in mind a good image will attract the more discerning adult viewers. The T&A kids would never glance at at your work. (unless of course you you've got T&A in your metaballs). :D

Maybe the idea of ratings is a just a pointless exercise, a way to gauge our popularity, an ego boost. Does anyone here really need to be 'best rated'? Is it that important to you? Does it make you a better artist?

Care about your art. Do the best you can. Learn from others. Appreciate and comment on the work of others. Try new things. Fail gracefully. Remember: "Life's tough; get a helmet."

And most of all, don't think about ratings: you are not a pack of sausage. Let the ratings go.

You know there's an old Zen saying: "The way to do is to be".

I'll try to create the same way.

End of deep Zen ;D

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