Question about feedback

22shooter

I'm new here, only a few posts and a few comments, and haven't yet gotten a good sense of what to expect in the way of feedback in the various threads. I've noticed that sometimes there are few or no comments even in the Refinery thread, even after many views. If there are few or no comments, does it generally mean folks think the shot is just mediocre and have nothing especially good or bad to say? Not a complaint, just wondering.

michswiss

I think I commented on one of your two shots in the Street forum. Having lots of views and no comments is generally a confirmation that there's not much in the image to draw the audience in. I have a lot of these type of posts littered across DGrin. I'd suggest being very direct in your posts if you are looking for strong feedback as a part of learning or expanding your skills. Tell people what you are working on, what you wanted to express or capture, what you like to capture. Just expect some very direct feedback and get ready to learn.

Icebear

Before you start to feel like "it's you" take a look at the ratio of views to comments on randomly selected threads. 80:1 is not unusual, and in my experience, fairly typical. As the previous poster suggested, the more you beg for comments, the more you're likely to get. Be careful how you respond to "negative" comments though. Folks here have pretty good memories, and if you respond defensively to the criticism you ask for, they'll just start ignoring you.

Richard

Everyone should also keep in mind that the number of views reported is not really accurate. It is inflated by web crawlers from Google and other sites. At any given time, you will see way more "guests" than members reported online on the main Dgrin page. Most of those guests are bots.

eoren1

Richard wrote: »

Everyone should also keep in mind that the number of views reported is not really accurate. It is inflated by web crawlers from Google and other sites. At any given time, you will see way more "guests" than members reported online on the main Dgrin page. Most of those guests are bots.

Is there any way to account for those 'fake' views?
It does make a difference if there are 20 views without comments on a post vs 250

Richard

Sorry, but I don't know of a way. At any given time, there are anywhere from three to ten times as many lurkers as members online. In the past, it was clear that a large majority of lurkers were bots and I suspect that it's still true. But I can't give you a formula.

Qarik

my take

obviously bad stuff usually gets comments because it easy to pick out what somone needs to improve

really good stuff usually gets comments no mater what

posts with pointed questions usually gets responses

long timers get courtesy responses from other long timers since there is more familiarity and such

then there is the whole mushy middle...not quite bad enough to really give easy pointers to..not quite good enough to grab folks attention.

I have noticed that sometimes it just takes 1 response to kick off flurry of responses as folks start riffing off of each others. Just take it for what it is worth and don't take it personally and keep plugging away.