C+C And Style Discussion (Split from Nayr's Thread)

[Keiang]

Actually I just looked in the rules again

This Board's main purpose is to help people work on their development as pixel artists/spriters.

It's even in the rules. This board is to help people become better artists. Not to "develop their sprites" but to "develop themselves as pixel artists/spriters". And Nayr said he didn't want to become a better artist. You could say he wanted to become a better FE sprite artist, but like, what is there to improve on? His skills are practically pseudoskills. There's a lot of eyeballing and learned behaviors, and there's not much room to learn anything more in that particular style.

I think the staff has some thinking to do, about this here wording.

I didn't remember that part of the rules, but I agree 100% with your logic. What the issue boils down to is whether the staff wants the community to focus on sprites or spriters, assuming they didn't have this in mind when they chose that wording.

Also, I got bored looked up on the Wikipedia article for constructive criticism and found it kinda interesting:

Techniques of constructive criticism aim to improve the behavior or the behavioral results of a person, while consciously avoiding personal attacks and blaming. This kind of criticism is carefully framed in language acceptable to the target person, often acknowledging that the critics themselves could be wrong. Insulting language and hostile language are avoided, and phrases are used like like "I feel..." and "It's my understanding that..." and so on. Constructive critics try to stand in the shoes of the person being criticized, and consider what things would look like from their perspective.

I know you guys feel that throwing in stuff like "good job" is bullshit, and I kind of agree, so I guess I'll just kinda leave this here and see what you guys think.