Giving Proper CnC

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Giving Proper CnC

    I see in this community a lot of comments that are simply wasteful. So here are some tips as to giving some good comments to improve the OP's work.

    Proper C&C

            * First, you don't need to down the artist's ego. Saying things like "That's terrible!" or "You suck at gfx y0!!!!#one1!" isn't going to help them at all, and if anything will decrease their ability and possibly even stray them away from designing. You should always keep a positive attitude in your comments, even if telling someone the tag isn't too great.

            * While you don't want to down them, you also don't want to make them a cocky ego-maniac. Nobody likes them, do we? If someone is too stuck up and confident of their work, they won't improve, they'll stay at the same level until they finally realize they're not as good as they think. So don't say things like "Dude, you're a GFX LEGEND BRO OMG!#$" or "HAO DO U DO THIS? TYHIS IZ PR00000#!!!!". That doesn't help, and it usually just annoys. Now it's not bad to give a comment noting how much you like a tag, just don't go overboard.

            * Now to the important part, the constructive criticism. Usually you'd start with what you think of the piece, but that itself isn't usually enough. You should tell them what you do/do not like about the work, and what they can do to improve it. Note that this doesn't always have to be extremely detailed, a few words used right could do the trick, but the artist is naturally much more grateful when you take time to help him/her improve their work.

            * If you know what they need to improve on, but aren't an active designer so you don't know how to word it.Go to my GFX turms thread Here http://www.wayclan.smfnew.com/index.php/topic,7.0.html