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Anyone else get a bit miffed ( polite for me) I really enjoy looking at the gallery, there have been some great pics recently. If I like them I take the trouble to comment . It only takes a small moment to say thank you. But so many contributors can’t be bothered....ignorance, bad manners... . Or should I not get “ miffed “ .
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To be honest, if I hadn't read posts on this forum about people expecting a reply to comments, I wouldn't normally reply either. When I started here I had no intention of being rude or indifferent, and I am generally a fairly well mannered person too, but I guess being used to Facebook where there are lots of comments at times and it isn't common to reply to them all (though very occasionally people do depending on the post),so it isn't something that I would have done either. I now do of course (here, not on social media) as I'd hate for people to think that their comments aren't appreciated because they most certainly are. 😊 But I suspect that people that don't comment/put thanks aren't intentionally rude either, just not aware of the expectations/custom here and if they don't read the forum, they wouldn't know any different . 😉
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by Dylan F Jeskye
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Fair point Dylan. I can see your reasoning. Though communication is a two way street either in showing and appreciating... as I initially said it’s possibly just me. Though what I do in my perverse way is never to comment again on one of those persons postings.That's of course your prerogative and I completely understand that. 🙂 Me, I will continue to comment on paintings I like to give my opinion and show my appreciation regardless of whether I get a reply or not. I never go and check whether there is an answer anyway. 😉
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Feel free to be miffed Sylvia, I also do and there are some who I know won’t respond so don’t comment on any longer, unless exceptional. If you’ve browsed the gallery and read the comments you will know that it’s expected to say thanks and as Dixie says, this often leads to a further exchange.
Tessa
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Hi all. I always try and give comments on anything I like (and there's been a lot to like recently) but I rarely go back and check whether I've been thanked. Probably the only time I do is when I've made what I hope is a constructive comment. On my own work, I do try and say thank you but I tend to do it collectively once a pic has been up for a few days/week as otherwise I feel the number of comments that are shown are largely my own! Hope that makes sense.
Personally I think and what have observed is that a lot of people post their paintings but never bother to comment on others at all. That's what I think is rude i.e. all take and no give.
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I agree, I think it's only polite to say thank you but that's probably the way we were brought up. The only thing is now with the new website it's not easy to go back to your artwork like it used to be with page numbers and for some reason I don't get my notification emails when someone has made a comment, so there might be some people out there that I've missed, apologies for those 😘
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The issue of people not saying thank you, and not commenting has come up many times. I think it’s down to the reason people upload to the site.some people just USE computers not thinking there are real people behind it. On the other hand those that consider themselves Members of this fine website I now do say thank you and do comment. That’s because the idea is to support one another.
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Just a quick one on this; personally I usually grab a quick look at it all. Not much of my work gets many comments any more, but I sincerely hope that has nothing to do with not replying to every post on items. I normally wait a couple of days before doing that. There's certainly no intention to be rude or disrespectful whatever, I'm very grateful to anyone who appreciates my work.. Just not my way of doing things. Not in the best of health right now, but that'll pass.
Jim.
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