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Don’t you just hate it when you come to your Devinatart account to check your messages and you see that people have added every friggin picture in your gallery to their favorites and never even commented on any of them or added you to their watch list? Honestly I find this annoying.

Do you seriously think art is appreciated when someone adds them to their +favs? Let’s think about this for a second, clicking on any artwork at DA and adding it to favorites takes about 2 seconds and 2 clicks with a mouse, the result of this is that your artwork will be listed on someone’s favorite list. Let me ask you is the word “favorite” really an appropriate term?

God forbid one actually take the extreme amounts of time, work and stress to form an opinion in a few sentences and press several buttons on the keyboard in order to type a few words about the subject to the artist. “Why do I like this picture? Why do I hate this picture? Why do I EVEN CARE looking at it?”

What are you crazy? That is just waaaaay too much effort compared to all the work the artist put into actually creating the artwork! Get real, it is much better to add the picture to the list of artworks labeled as “favorites” which most probably already contains about a gazillion artworks from a gazillion different artists. Just to remember that somewhere sometime for some reason once the user saw this picture. Of course the user will not going to look at it anymore ever again after +fav-ing it. The +fav list is already so long that the user can hardly remember what he/she +fav-ed yesterday, or maybe 1 hour ago, so why bother looking at them again? Users +fav things on DA like a conveyor belt in a factory producing bricks without any meaning to the bricks produced.

So this brings me to a conclusion: if someone adds an artwork to their +fav that only proves one thing, that sometime, somewhere for some reason they looked at it for about 2 seconds (could be longer depending on how fast their connection is), nothing more. However, if someone actually takes time to stop for a moment to write a few kind words in comment that means a lot more.


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*phew* Feel much better now...