Quote - I disagree with webster that people without galleries shouldn't comment.  I believe that, since the galleries are publicly viewable, anyone should be allowed to comment.  After all, we all have opinions on TV shows, footballers, music and so forth.  Doesn't mean we could write, act or direct a show, play football or play music.

Although I kind of agree with you, there's a big difference in scale and purpose. Professional reviewers try to help us spend money on worthwhile entertainment. Images here are free. The rest of us can talk opinions about professional movies, sports, and so on without feeling too guilty. It's a bit tacky to vent that opinion on a person's page. Leaving a negative comment about a Vince Vaughn movie in a forum is one thing. Doing it on his personal webpage is a bit nastier. That's what we're doing here when we leave a negative comment on somebody's gallery image. It's part of their profile. Vince Vaughn can cry all the way to the bank when he sees a negative criticism by a non-professional reviewer--or a pro for that matter. A Renderosity artist doesn't have the solace of a multi-million dollar paycheck.

How quickly would a moderator shut down a forum topic about posting the worst gallery images seen at Renderosity? Would the mods be as quick to close down an off-topic post to name the worst movies ever seen? I'd go with a DVD a friend lent me: American Pie: Band Camp. It's one thing to beat up on a bad movie that probably cost millions of dollars to make, but still turned out wrong. It's another to jump all over somebody's personal artwork that they spent hours creating and freely sharing. I've seen discussions here with members that wanted to critique images they see when their own galleries weren't all that terribly impressive. A person doesn't have to be a professional artist to critique art, but it's a lot more convincing when they are. It's a bit ridiculous to have a person critiquing an image for having badly posed figures when the critic's work has badly posed figures. If only we could see our flaws as well as we can those of others.

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