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The other change I've noticed in the last week is that instead of receiving emails when people have commented on your art you now have to go to your account and click on messages.
BTW I found the reason for not being able to post comments. I think POL are no longer servicing Internet Explorer so I had to switch to Chrome and now it's fine again. Probably an unwitting change but others may have come across similar.
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I just leave myself logged in, always have done, but occasionally it still asks me to log in again, usually if I have cleared my search history which I like to do now and then, but now I know that I can cope with it.
There are always a few niggles with any new system, as with the recent new website.
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I suppose you could get in with the first comment and say something like ‘I hope you enjoy looking but please don’t comment’? Personally I like to see comments with the occasional banter and I don’t think I’ve ever seen unkind comments and always appreciate positive criticism. I’m always a little sad that there is so much great work coming through and I can’t keep up with making comments, or some days the words don’t come so I hit the like button instead.
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To be honest - the moment you exhibit a work, no matter where you may show it, you are opening yourself up to criticism, positive and negative. I don't show work on here very much at the moment - though only because I'm not producing very much just now - but when I do I expect, and welcome, criticism: of course I don't want negative remarks, e.g. 'urggh, you can't paint, why do you bother?', but I've never had that so far, he said; offering a hostage to fortune.
I have valued the comments I've received here when I have posted - most have been 'positive', but so far as they're constructive and help me to get things right, I don't recognize the 'negative' - it's not negative if it helps, is it?
I think that if you don't want crits, you shouldn't post at all: sorry, I realize that will put some people off - but no one here, so far as I've ever seen, is cruel or dismissive: we try to help. That doesn't mean we'll always be right - ALWAYS be free to dismiss criticism and go your own way! But I have never yet seen a comment on this site that did not mean well, and was not intended to help.
Be a bit brave - any crits you receive here will pale into nothingness compared with those you might receive once you bung your painting in a frame and hang it on the wall of a local exhibition! We try to HELP, here, not to attack; and I do think we generally succeed.
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One of the reasons that I joined this website some six years ago now, was for the communication and interaction with other members.
It can sometimes be a lonely existence for us artists, working alone most of the time as I do.
So I always value the comments and support that I receive, and they’re mainly positive I’m delighted to say.
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John, I have always thought of constructive criticism as a way of helping me grow and learn throughout my life and career. This is something totally different from someone making comments because they are mean, jealous or just plain nasty, which would not affect me either way as I would rise above it and pay it no heed. When people give constructive criticism, it is useful, helpful and enhances our ability to further develop. As for the site, I don't think I have ever seen a remark that would be deemed upsetting to anyone. Sometimes I think it is the anticipation of the fear itself and when the consequences are delivered, we realize our fears were unfounded, so we have wasted that energy thinking about it instead of using it for more constructive purposes.