"John Coppens"  wrote in message 
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> I would rather have presented them in the
> hope of learning or receiving constructive criticism, but I never had any
> of that.
> <snip>
> - Taking into account the previous point, I do propose a voting system
> for the comment section. I believe constructive comments should be
> awarded...

The constructive criticism thing sounds good in theory, but you’ll have to 
explicitly subordinate yourself to others if you expect to receive 
constructive criticism, and most people aren’t willing to do that. 
Unsolicited offerings of constructive criticism are almost always met with 
resistance.

In a perfect world, we as audience would just openly react to images and we 
as artists would in time discover how to get the reactions we desire. This 
isn’t a perfect world. People want compliments, and if the images are being 
judged, people want to know why you didn’t give them three 20s. "10-8-6" is 
better than "Nice Lighting! 10-8-6."

So, you’ve got to react solely with numbers (no compliments) or articulate 
your reaction with text (warts and all). This is guaranteed to make you 
unpopular, because, for whatever reason, artists almost invariably read your 
criticisms as “you should have …” rather than “I’d have liked it more if
…”. 
Secret balloting is the best way to keep your friends.

-Shay

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