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For people just starting out, I think positive critique is great to encourage them to post more and develop their skills.  Then after maybe a few pics, people might add a comment or two on what could be done better.  It's all in the way its handled and lets face it, some people use kid gloves while others use an iron fist.

Totally agree - n00bs should be encouraged, but it's easy to spot a n00b by the small number of gallery images and the total lack of quality. My problem is when you get someone churning out terrible stuff for years with no sense of improvement - galleries full of awful work just demonstrates some people must either have no desire to improve, or just aren't aware that what they're doing is awful. Like when people use Comic Sans because they think it's 'casual'. Such people should be educated; it's not 1996 any more!

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Many comments are copied and past only, with the hope to get many comments and faves back. Some have a second, third and fourth account to write and fave own images. A point for this are certainly the sh*** art charts,becourse everybody wants to be the best and at the top of them.

I don't doubt it - and a few changes to the rules would stop this from happening. Limit the number of comments per day (20 is reasonable), and limit the number of accounts per IP address to a max of 2 or 3 (it's feasable you could share computer/network with another Rosity user).

Renderosity is a community, but at it's heart, it's an ART community. People are missusing comments and accounts for financial/egotistical gain by giving hollow, meaningless info - it's just like link ghosting, where a website clones all the links from a proper database website (like yellow Pages, or whatever) - you end up with duplication of information for financial gain. And it's holding back the reputation of Renderosity. If the directors of this website meet up and try to figure out how to improve the site's reputation, profits, quality and stability (a site built on meaningless empty praise will soon find how vagrant their 'community' is, when trouble strikes) - they need only look at their poclicies of dealing with the people who use that community.

You wonder why Rosity is rolling out the 'CGSpree' once more? It's probably because they're desperate to keep the show rolling; they're against the ropes because the sycophantic clientelle they pander to in their policy loopholes are dragging them into a cycle of financial loss. You can't base a community on emptiness; whether it's promises of support, or blind positivity - once it hits the fan this sort of community will leave you.

No doubt this thread will be locked, because of the horse flogging, but I think allowing a shallow culture to prevail is a symptom of money-grabbing, and is simply not a robust way to run a business. If Rosity makes it through the current financial climate, it'll either be fluke, or virtue of policy change.