Critique in the image-sharing subforums

[Tin Can]

I see many judgements made, AKA Critiques

Of ART posted in good faith

I thought that was done only when requested?

Bryan follows that rule

Perhaps I fail as cheerleader

I offer Atta a Person

if i like

[Michael R]

I think the general rule is no critique unless OP solicits it. I don’t think atta-person counts as a critique so you should be fine. It would be pretty funny if a person posted an image and then objected to someone saying they liked it. “I DON’T TAKE PRAISE VERY WELL!”

[Jim Jones]

"When everything else fails, follow the rules!"

[Oren Grad]

Michael is right about our guideline. We don't always have time to catch every post - if you think someone is repeatedly imposing unwanted critical remarks in the image-sharing subforums, please let the moderators know.

[wclark5179]

Toastmasters focus on evaluating a speech to get the presenter excited to do another after the evaluation.

The evaluation goes like this:

Start out by finding and saying something positive.

Then recommend in a positive way how it could be better the next time.

And, finally, give some more positive feedback.

I believe if this were applied to evaluating a photographers work you’d get some one who would want to submit more photos to be evaluated. And the photographer would improve making photographs.Shouldn’t that be the goal?

[darr]

Not everyone that posts an image is seeking a critique.
Sometimes, they post to share where they went, a technique, lens, etc.
Please do not critique my work or you will take the fun out of it for me!

[darr]

What I wish the forum had was like, thank you, etc. buttons.
Members may receive more positive feedback this way.
I enjoy looking at images, but I do not always have the time to write a post to congratulate the photographer.

[Vaughn]

There have been many comments about "like" buttons, and generally not positive.
Being semi-active on Facebook and having used the thumbs up system, I prefer not having it here. A thumbs up becomes a rather empty gesture...especially if one can not give a thumbs down. If we were to go down that wormhole, I'd rather have a 1 to 5 rating system (or 1 to 10).

[paulbarden]

"Like"buttons? No thank you. I don't think we need to reduce our interactions to the level of vacuous Facebook narcissism.

[darr]

Apologies, everyone. I'm not currently using Facebook, so I can't speak to the negativity associated with the like button there.
However, on the getDPI forum where I'm active, the like button is seen as a positive feature.