Chester said:
and for your information... lots of people talk nasty about the work of others behind their back... dont start telling me that im that unique... c'mon man!
I'm not saying you're unique, what I'm saying is that we should strive to be better than that. I wasn't singling you out because you did it, I was saying that
that kind of attitude isn't good. Which I followed with my opinion about what I would prefer, agree or not is up to you.
I don't know, maybe people's egos are more fragile than mine. I'd certainly rather have someone come and tell me something to my face than to have them talk about me behind my back. I'm sure it happens, but what I'm saying is that it shouldn't.
Yes, AppleCider, I understand what you're saying. My point wasn't so much that we should go around calling stuff ugly. You should always have something helpful and constructive to say as well. My point was more that blowing sunshine up people's ass doesn't help at all, so you have to be willing to take the bad with the good and be willing as a viewer to critique something if it has a problem and not afraid of "hurting their feewings".
I'm not advocating being harsh or mean... in fact I'm advocating the opposite. That we should strive always to be helpful. If that means telling someone that they need to try again, then that's good. Yes, sometimes you don't have any suggestions and you really want to make a comment... and 90% of the time those comments are just that you like the work. Even then, though, more along the lines you're going with, you can point out what specificly you liked about it.
The point really goes back to putting in effort. If we don't want to try to help each other and put out the effort to make the community work, then we shouldn't be participating in the community, IMHO.
I really don't want this to become a shouting match.. that wasn't my intention... I was trying to move things away from that actually towards something a little more open. So take it for what it's worth and move on I guess.
$0.02