Gallery Comments

This may seem odd for a community request. But we all need encouragement sometimes. And if we each took a little time every couple of days to go through the gallery and add a few comments here and there, it could make a person's day. Just a suggestion. "what goes around, comes around".

Render On!!

On the other hand, I am a bit disappointed that they have apparently removed the option of choosing no comments desired.

Well, I'll look into that for you. Some folks do prefer no comments. thanks for pointing that out.

is good idea to comment on imgs, as that's how one gets comments on one's own imgs. as sir paul mccartney said: "the more you give, the more you get."

Well, I have had the same couple of people comment on my images on the rare occasion I will even put one in my gallery anymore. And they are people I never see post in any other area of the forum. I have offered my good will and gracious comments on several images. But to be honest, there doesn't seem to be much of a variety in the gallery anymore. When I click on what's new, it's shifted from the various forms of V4 to Genesis and V7, but the content is the same. I usually only post an image if I made some sort of breakthrough. What I see lately is what some members on here have been complaining about. I am not complaining, but let's face it. I can only look at scantily clad female forms in suggestive poses so much before even I will say "is this all there is?"

this post has been viewed 118 time, at the time of my comment. it has had only 4 reply's. I think that tells you what 114 people think of the idea. why have more not said "no " "don't have time" "I think its a bad idea"" because in the fluffy world that is "Rendo" and daz for that matter. Anything that is viewed as negative, even a comment on an image, even if it is constructive, Someone will go crying to the mods and it is removed, Because lets face it, anyone who says anything that isn't nice must be a troll. So a lot of folks think why bother.

i looked at a few gallery images today, but was stalked by an ugly jumbo ad, cant take it anymore

The extensive wait for the rest of the gallery page to load, combined with the over the top ads, is preventing me from viewing the gallery at all. I've been away for a bit and am unsure when the change happened. I hope it gets fixed soon.

Boni, I've commented on images and encouraged artists in the galleries for say 10 years. Then Rendo stopped with the e-bots, that alerted me when one of my fav artists had issued a new entry. This sort of forced me to stop visiting the gallery, as I have to wade through lots and lots of images which are not of my interest, to (not) find the ones I like. I also experience that it stopped various artists from issuing into the gallery, as they saw a drop in visitors and comments.

So: give me back the e-bot alerting, and I'll be back commenting.

PS: I would encourage e-bot alerting on freebies as well, as I do have my fav artists in there too. It is working fine on Marketplace. I would also encourage e-bot alerting on the forum. Now it exists for threads, but I'd like a note when one of my fav guru's posts anything anywhere. Give it a thought.

I'm waiting for them to add ability to block artists and block genre. I quit viewing gallery yrs ago, due to repetitive nature of posts on first page, when browsing "what's new".

I've commented on some images in the past. I never got the impression that anyone actually wanted.... feedback. Renderosity could just as easily add a "like" type button instead because most seem to be interested in collecting "responses" and "ratings" rather than being at all interested in what the comments actually say.

I don't bother now because, quite frankly, it takes hours of browsing before I come across an image I can even stand to look at for more than 10 seconds. Since there's no good way to find quality images, it's just too frustrating. And the current method of choosing top rated images is so closely correlated with "popularity", the art charts are best used as a guide for what NOT to look at.

A better way to do things might be the way DeviantArt selects its daily deviations. When humans, with some actual taste, as opposed to algorithms, do the choosing, the quality of art goes up exponentially.

I agree it's a popularity contest in there. Some of the images that are getting top marks are worse than my first render attempts 5 years ago. They don't even take the time to make the character look alive... no expressions, just the default blank look. Using Reality or any other render engine doesn't make it better. It just looks like a more realistic mannequin....

I don't even like going to the gallery anymore. It is so convoluted now. I agree with others in the fact that trying to find what you are looking for is next to impossible.

I used to like coming to Rendo, but all the recent changes have made it far more work than it is worth. I am not alone in this either, many people that used to post images and in the forums seem to have vanished.

Change that is user friendly is fine, change that makes it harder to navigate just pushes users away.

Going to a gallery to see images only to find that it is now just another way of pushing advertisements says a lot about the direction the site is going.

If you want people to go to the galleries, or any other area of the site for that matter, stop making harder to do so with every update to the site.

I have been a member her for years, and I am sorry to say that the direction the site has gone is the primary reason I contribute next to nothing here anymore. But without a doubt, no one really cares about that now do they..... Rendo most likely wants new members that don't already have huge Runtimes.

shvrdavid posted at 8:34AM Tue, 06 October 2015 - #4232510

I don't even like going to the gallery anymore. It is so convoluted now. I agree with others in the fact that trying to find what you are looking for is next to impossible....

Spot-on! If this Forum had a "Thanks" button for your post, as some do, I'd click it...

I do agree that most individuals posting in the gallery are looking for positive comments and no constructive suggestions. Why bother when others give glowing responses and you're the only one giving suggestive advice to improve the image and are critically attacked for being negative.

I'm no fan of the latest batch of changes, and I'm certainly not defending them. But I do know that making the site mobile friendly -- despite the absurdity of doing so on a site that sells content to people who MUST own at least a laptop computer -- was absolutely necessary. Quite a while ago Google gave out a warning that sites which did not fully support browsing by mobile devices would incur severe penalties in their search engine rankings. No ecommerce site can afford that. Hence -- I believe -- the awful changes at Daz3D, and recently here, or so it would seem. These sites weren't the only ones making drastic changes. Just as an example, The Atlantic got slammed with negative comments after they made mobile device friendly changes.

Alas, Google. The power to make the entire commercial web horrifying for desktop users!

You can code a site to do any platform of your choosing. So what Google asked for can, and is done on lots of sites.

The difference is if the coders choose to do so in a way that works easily on any platform.......................................

shvrdavid posted at 12:54AM Wed, 07 October 2015 - #4232510

I don't even like going to the gallery anymore. It is so convoluted now. I agree with others in the fact that trying to find what you are looking for is next to impossible.

I used to like coming to Rendo, but all the recent changes have made it far more work than it is worth. I am not alone in this either, many people that used to post images and in the forums seem to have vanished.

Change that is user friendly is fine, change that makes it harder to navigate just pushes users away.

Going to a gallery to see images only to find that it is now just another way of pushing advertisements says a lot about the direction the site is going.

If you want people to go to the galleries, or any other area of the site for that matter, stop making harder to do so with every update to the site.

I have been a member her for years, and I am sorry to say that the direction the site has gone is the primary reason I contribute next to nothing here anymore. But without a doubt, no one really cares about that now do they..... Rendo most likely wants new members that don't already have huge Runtimes.

I came to the same conclusion, which is why I have now deleted my whole gallery (I didn't like the new advertising policy in the galleries). It was only about 300 images but it had taken me 5 years to get to that.

Anyway I am out of here back into long term lurk mode before I get told not to be negative, yet again.

Bye.

I've got literally hundreds of images to upload...mostly drawings, paintings, and ceramic sculptures. But, haven't gotten round to it. Plus I feel that there's a preference for digital media (which I have a lot of also... but more model images/wips and such). I'm just gonna go ahead and put them up anyway, over time. I personally do all of my web browsing on a mobile device and my digital image making on an offline machine. I think Google and Facebook are nice and I feel that this sites changes aren't at all a bother to myself as a member. I couldn't care less about image comments and don't look a whole lot at most of the imagery posted in the gallery by others, although I've seen some cool work... I don't comment though. The idea of having to comment to get comments is ridiculous... akin to handling a soggy barf bag frankly. Imagine if that kind of mentality were required in a real world art gallery? But like I said, I don't care about shallow warm fuzzies... or comments, or potentially spiteful infantile repercussions for lack thereof, which would be about as meaningful as the shadow of an ant to me as an artist (although the shadow of an ant might be of more significance lol.) ... yup, that about covers it. Thanks Rendo, your site works great on my phone! ;)