I'm just wondering why certain individuals here like to post a comment on a render like "Great work!!!!" and then follow that comment with a low rating? What's up with that?

This has happened to me frequently enough in the past that I was going to mention it earlier but I held off from doing so because it's hard to mention something like this without it coming off sounding like "sour grapes" over a low rating.

Don't get me wrong, if I enable ratings on an image and somebody wants to give that image a low rating that is their prerogative - no problem at all.  I've been making images for a long time so I'm secure enough with my own talents that it's not going to bother me in the least. It just seems to me that there's something very duplicitous about posting a glowing comment and THEN giving that same image a low rating.

I'm just wondering what would prompt an individual to do something like that? Were they traumatized while being toilet trained or is it just some other gross character deficiency - or what else ... I don't know :)

I recall seeing a thread about this same thing a few months ago in the Poser forum and I wished I would have joined in then with a suggestion to the PTB that this may be avoided if a viewers's rating was posted along with their comment. This may not eliminate this curious behavior but at least everyone would know who the individuals are who are doing this.

• Rick