12-04-2010, 09:45 AM
Edits concern us since they deal with sprites and pixel art. I for one don't hate edits, you might actually notice I do quite a few and I don't consider it a taboo subject, and I don't think any of us are hiding anything: I think the reason we express our dislike for the novice edits we see is because we in fact remember doing them, and we think it was a waste of time in a way, and we want members to not waste their time.
Yes, depending on how you do edits and what your goal is, editing can be constructive if it's an observational exercise, like working over somebody's work in an attempt to camouflage your edit in theirs, or trying to replicate aspects of style, of technique from a sprite to learn. If it serves another goal other than observing and studying a subject, then it won't go very far.
You see, if the people in question told us what they were studying when they were doing the edit, if it is a study that they're doing of course, and it could be possibly tolerated. I'm tired and I'm not sure if I made myself clear, I'll have a go at rewriting this later.
Yes, depending on how you do edits and what your goal is, editing can be constructive if it's an observational exercise, like working over somebody's work in an attempt to camouflage your edit in theirs, or trying to replicate aspects of style, of technique from a sprite to learn. If it serves another goal other than observing and studying a subject, then it won't go very far.
You see, if the people in question told us what they were studying when they were doing the edit, if it is a study that they're doing of course, and it could be possibly tolerated. I'm tired and I'm not sure if I made myself clear, I'll have a go at rewriting this later.