I shall comment more

I made a comment on another journal about it, depending on if you read it or not, could copy paste it here if you want.

Go for it.

"You would be afraid to comment to when users on here take everything the wrong way and auto block because MUH FEELINGS!

there are even artist on here who actually actively block comments and say "please don't ever fav or comment on my work" and getting criticism on your work? Geeze good luck with that too, because people now assume criticism is trolling and trolling is bad, u shudnt bully others."

Ah, yes. Others have expressed that concern too. Can't say I blame them, I don't think I have that kind of reputation at least.

I have the same problem, maybe 70 faves 3 comments almost every time.

Same with me.

Because certain artists never comment back to their watchers. I doubt they even read them, so that's why I don't always respond to more popular artists.

I know what you mean.

hard to think of useful stuff to say, so most will probably opt to not say a thing to begin with

That's fine. :3

I don't comment much. D:

That's perfectly fine, not trying to force comments. Just making sure nothing is giving people apprehension to commenting.

There are a lot of reasons to why people don't comment on some people's work.

This is more of a general drop in comments. It'd be different if it was just me, but I've run across quite a few other artist who've said the same thing. I'm certainly not trying to force comments, just making sure this wasn't an effect from some unknown event that occurred.

Ah I see. well in my case I never really got comments on my work.

I usually comment if I like the picture, and I see that there aren't any comments, or if there is something I thought really stood out in their work. Heh, especially stuff like the new Pokemon mega forms lol, I really don't like them, but when the artist draws them SO WELL I have to make a comment lol! I think that people are kinda just shy, or afraid of offending the artist or author lol.

That's what I was thinking....

Well for me, I just fave through them because it is easier to get it through fast. The reason why people don't comment is because we have somewhere to go, we get lazy to comment, we don't get much respond back, computer sometimes go slow and other issues as well on why people don't comment. So yeah that's what I come up with and many other people might have more reason maybe.

No clue. I get frick all on my journal comments anymore other than people I've talked to or have followed me from pretty early on.

Still get a butt load of favs though,so they're still out there. O_O

I enjoy your artworks and i like ti read conments and respond asap like i always do

I don't comment too often on journals, and more so pictures, haha. I feel like most journals don't really warrant a read, when I see the titles of some, and even when I do read, it's not something I can/should give my advice or opinion on, because often other people have already helped or said what I have to say. (Stuff I won't read are rants, commission adverts and PSAs to commissioners, meme journals, and other similar stuff.)

Pictures, I don't really want to do any critique or give feedback since I feel like I don't know too much about art, or that my opinion is not much more different than the "Cool" and "Cute" comments, haha.

I gotcha. But they don't have to be about advice or critiquing. I particularly like answering questions about certain choices in the pic I've done or specific info about a character. :D

That's all dandy, but I'm not really interested in background information unless I really, really like the character or the picture, haha.

You might be saying, "Wtf does this guy like to do here, then!?". For right now, I can't view NSFW stuff, and just sort of skim over pictures that I might like from the icons, and give those favorites.

It's all good. :3

I've been noticing that for years here and there ^^;

And I feel the same way.

Feels like a good chunk just dropped off somewhere.

You know I'mma pretty active commenter

LOL I know

Pictures I try to comment on. Unless it's kinda important, I tend to not chat so much on journals.

I meant pics in general. :3

Some users might find it hard to write one handed :-B
but yeah, I think people are just impatient these days so taking 30 secs to write a comment why you liked a pic enough to +fav it is too much to ask

Might have a point. Now that I think about it, many of my watchers from the earlier years are probably in a very hectic stage of their life right now.

Any kinda feed back is good feed back cept for dem trolls

but i have noticed it too. A fav is nice but a comment feels better. It always feels good when a piece of art you make inspires a thought in someones head

Definitely! :D

I noticed I get yelled at quite a bit when I leave comments.

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I'd say it stands from a few different things, these are the reasons why I rarely comment:

1. When I comment, for some reason I need a reply back, even if it's just a thanks. I often get pissed for some reason seeing artists who have about 30 comments on one picture, yet they don't ever reply to them. So I have this childish mindset of "well, if they're not gonna reply why bother!? They obviously don't care either way!" I know it's dumb, but that's just how it is. I feel as though most artists don't really care about the people that like their stuff, just how many people like their stuff.

2. I have a tendency of saying the same crap over and over. Quite frankly, I WANT to say so many nice things about peoples art, yet my mind pretty much always says "Wow! This is awesome!" and there's only so many times I can post "this is awesome" before I wanna strangle myself. So I'll usually not comment at all.

3. Being top 5 on a favored artists submission. This is going to sound weird, but there's been several times where I somehow comment on a well known artists picture and then like 10 more people comment on my comment.... on one post it got so bad that I had to tell them all to cut that crap out!

4. Flame wars. It's not the artists fault, but whenever there's a flame war going on, I just don't even wanna be a part of the picture in any way. Just yesterday as a matter of fact, someone posted a picture of Korra from Legend of Korra that I liked and was about to comment on, and some righteous dick started throwing child porn claims around and that they were reporting them, to which the picture exploded with 4Chan anger and insults. I immediately clicked back.

So those are my reasons, aside from straight up just being lazy. Hope that helps. I get very little comments too.

#2 to the extreme.

A lot of people say they want people to post something -- anything -- even if it's just, "it's nice". But, not only does that get tiring and meaningless, but some artists also hate getting generic comments and will be insulted unless you give a thorough critique. Then there's artists that will get ticked if you write a critique.

Every artist wants a different kind of feedback, and it gets very tiring to think up new ways to say something generic, insightful, interesting, and inoffensive all at the same time.

Personally, I'm very stingy with my favs, anyway. I avoid faving things that are already popular and instead focus on art and artists that really could use more attention. If I'm going to put the time into making good comments, I'm very selective about it and only comment on a few works.

I've been there too with the critique thing, like they take it the wrong way and read it as if I'm insulting them, so the reply is them practically biting my head off, like jeeeeez, sorry for commenting dude! I also find it extremely hard to accurately convey tone through text... like if I say "nice picture" you can really read this entire reply any way you want too, whether it be sincere or sarcastic.

I'm stingy with faves too, but I ALWAYS comment on the pictures that I favorite because NOTHING aggravates me more then putting out a submission I worked hard on, and the like over 12 people favorite it and not one of them even comments, so I guess I'm a little bit of a hypocrite too. ^^

For the same reason as your #2, I don't often thank people for comments unless I have something USEFUL to add :c I do worry that it can come across rude or standoffish, but at the same time, I feel like I'm being rude and jerky by just posting the same generic "thank you" to every comment, it's almost robotic, as if I'm not really expressing any thanks but just replying for the sake of replying, so I don't tend to reply to comments unless I can come up with something more to say than a generic "thank you!". I hate clogging up people's inboxes with stupid stuff like that, a lot of people look forward to comments, they might think they have a nice comment on a submission they've just posted and then they realize, "oh it's just that guy saying thanks to my comment, lame". I hope that makes sense ._.

I can understand that, and I can also understand getting 50+ comments and not actually having the time to reply back to EVERYTHING, but in any case, I usually try my best to reply back to any comment I receive. But then again, this is coming from someone who gets 1 to 8 comments a submission, so I guess I can't really relate yet. I also sometimes get creepy comments like, "I wanna fuck your character in the face hole!" and I'm like... "thanks?" Never sure what to say to those, but I should be use to them by now for being in this fandom.

and yes, your comment makes a lot of sense to me, thank you. ^^

I get what your saying. I've never really had issues with 1.3 and 4, but it seems lots of people have issues with number 2. That being said, I would prefer people write what they feel. Even if it's the same thing again. :3

I'll keep that in mind, and since you asked so politely, I'll try to comment more.

I appreciate that, however I don't want you to feel like you're obligated to, because you're not. This was more a curiosity as to what may have caused the drop in comments, not an order to my watchers to COMMENT NAOWZ! XD

I'd take a comment over a favorite anyday.

But honestly, I never know what to say.
Sometimes I might think of a joke, I'll type that sometimes, but most of the time I just don't care what people upload.

It's not really that I don't care, more that I never see something I like enough, and when I do see something, I just get jealous because of how great of an art they made.

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Yes I know the last sentence is wrong.

LOL I that same feeling too!

I Belive it depends

The reasons I don't eally comment is because when I get a chance to look at the subject somebody already said what I would have said so I don't want to be repetitive

The reason people don't reply to journals is because in most cases the journal shouldn't exist. People can't seem to understand the difference between a journal and twitter. It's basically one of those 'shut up and draw more porn' scenarios, but the artists block you if you say that.

I meant for artwork.

Well, for that it's quite simple. They could spend 10-30 minutes trying to think of something witty or useful to say, with the knowledge they won't get any response; then they could just spam hearts in the comments or just click add to favourites, which in my opinion is pretty much the same thing.
Either that or they're just not interested in the pic.


I think its Not Easy Sometimes because some Artist Not comment back than you Feel like they dont read it and than you Not go on.

Fa should make a "like botton" for comments like on Outube or Facebook ;) Maybe it would or could help ;)

I don't know about other artist, but I appreciate every comment. I used to give a thankyou for all who give simple praise comments, then FA removed the multi-reply function. So I choose not to reply to many of those rather than spam the page with thank-yous,

yeah i know not every artist is like this but some peopel here are realy dont say anything , i can understand it that maybe when you got over 15 comments it can be hard to read them all

I often like art, but I can never think of something to say about it. I usually approach things from a technical point of view and try to compliment their use of lighting, or perspective or something like that, but sometimes you just like art just because. You don't really know what to say about it, you just see it and you know you like it, so you fave it. I usually judge the success of a piece purely by faves. A fave is just as good as a comment to me, because I try to remember that a lot of people are probably just like me, they like the piece, they just don't know what to say about it!

A lot of people feel the way you do. If you don't feel like commenting that's absolutely fine, it should never be forced EVER. But even if you don't know what to say, it's still nice to hear whatever you may think of. Whether it's a few words or a simple "Cute".

Some artists get annoyed by single word comments like that though :x If I know them and I'm sure they won't get annoyed, I would do it, but if I don't know the artist at all, I'll avoid commenting in most cases in case I say something to upset them (see Waccoon's comment on the matter).

Well, I can't speak for other artist, but I can tell you I'm completely fine with it. :3

comments can be a big issue sometimes..i offered a free game to anyone who commented on a journal, and 1 person kind of sorta wanted it, and that was the only comment, i mean, wth guys

LOL XD

Probably due to the rise in drama when it comes to comments. Usually when someone doesn't immediately say they like something and instead expresses displeasure at how something is done or the price of something they get STORMED by a hoard of people. Or the same people over and over again that feel like they have to teach everyone that's not in total agreement with prices or how something is drawn a lesson.

Otherwise on the positive side it's usually hard to comment when there's already a bunch of comments with the exact wording you would have used. "I like this", "Her boobs look great", "You did a really good job", "MURR" etc.

I usually find myself not commenting because I have nothing to be said that hasn't already been said or anything constructive that I can add.

Yeah, I hear that. Even if the artist agrees with the criticism they were given, it's usually a flood of angry comments directed at that person before the artist can respond. However even if its only things like "I like this", I encourage comments regardless. :D

I don't always comment on the adult stuff (I don't often view red border material and I likely started watching most people based on a non-adult pic they did)...but it's my creed to comment on almost all other art--if the artist appreciates comments.

But...yeah...I feel the same way, too. I comment as much as I can and a lot of people appreciate it...but I don't get much on my own work, except a few usual "cute" or "cool" comments.

LOL What are you doing watching me? *Looks at the veritable flood of adult material in my gallery* XD

Because you have great art...and you post a few non-red-border things on occasion. *laughs* It's only red border stuff... *is pretty much a yaoi fan* ...so, I'm not into girls!

But honestly, I do like your art a whole lot...and really that's why I'm watching you.

activity drops off during the school year

Really? Didn't seem that way other years.

I generally don't like to comment unless I can think of something more than "Awesome!"

I don;t comment mostly because I have nothing to add these days...

Comments have slowed down in general. But then no telling how many images they've commented on before hand.

Man, I just have my phone for internet connection but I shouldn't be making excuses. I'm glad we all got to see some new work from you, yo.

LOL It's understandable in your case.