About the stamp

Okay, so there are a couple of stamps around with a similar message, but I wanted one for me and to my own tastes (although I've uploaded it for anyone to use if they wish to). I wanted to keep it to the dA colours. It will fit with a certain journal CSS I have to tweak. I also thought it would be a good idea to make the word "comments" stand out the most for obvious reasons. I actually found doing something so simple as a stamp pretty hard. More so because I don't like the restriction when it comes to text and having to chop and change things so that stuff fits into it and still looks decent.

About the message

This stamp, or should I say the message, evidently won't appeal to everyone. In fact, quite a few I imagine considering the current rate of things, but I know for myself and to some others it will.

I'm really saddened browsing around dA and hearing from some friends that they're getting tired of getting lots of favourites and not many comments. It has to be said that the +fav and comment ratio has gotten really bad over the years :\ It's unfortunate because a lot of artists just want to know people's thoughts on what they upload even if it's a few words. I personally don't think it cuts it saying "A favourite says it all". To me, it doesn't. One can only assume a person likes your piece of work they faved, but do they know why? No.

Don't get me wrong, favourites are nice and all, and I know some people will say "well I have no time" etc, but this isn't the case for everyone. It wouldn't hurt to have a little more interaction with the artist and drop them a few words if you're going to favourite their piece of art. It would be great to see us move away from the craze of just simply clicking a button and our interaction with the artist ends there. We can do better than that