Actually, it's not the unwillingness to comment, it's the confusion behind commenting. For example: "Please critiques", someone leaves a critique and then gets told they are way too harsh, not nice, etc.,etc. OR "Please comment" and gets left comments like "Nice job" and then the response to that is, if all your going to say is nice job, then just don't comment OR "Why isn't anyone commenting" and then the photo has like 20 comments along with a 100 favoriteds, so it's like, what more can someone say about that cake? Your damend if you do, your damned if you don't. I comment on the cakes I like and just don't say anything about the ones that need improvement. It's easier. And I don't feel like ANYONE on here should feel obligated to have to comment. If you do great, and it is always appreciated, if you don't, I understand.

Blessings

I don't post my photos with any expectations. You can't control whether someone comments or not. If no one comments on my photos does not mean my pictures aren't good. I just look at it as people didn't comment because they didn't want to.

Either way, I am the one who validates me and the work that I create. To receive comments, yeah it's nice but not to receive any doesn't bother me. If I did my best then that is all that I can do. If something didn't turn out the way that I liked, then I will ask for other's opinion on how to make it better. If I get responses from my asking, then so be it. But if I don't I don't lose any sleep over the situation.

Case in point, I asked for help on how I can make my Football Helmut Cake ... that I just posted yesterday ... better, and thus far I have not received any responses. But that is so okay with me. Somebody put it as one of their favorites, and I truly appreciate that! I know I will continue to practice my Helmut cake until I am satisfied with my method of doing it.

It doesn't bother me that I am new to cake decorating ... on this level ... and so many other decorators are more experienced than me. I know they were once in my shoes (being new) and I will one day be in theirs. Whether you are new to the game or not it's not a matter of being better, to me it's simply a matter of experience.

I have no problem commenting on someone else's creation.

Is the Critique Subgroup still around? That's a good thing to get involved with. Good feedback and suggestions on what to do differently the next time you do a cake. I always liked that idea.

I think it's great to recive a comment, even if it's "nice job". Someone has opened my picture to actually see it and spent a few seconds to tell me: I saw it and I think it's nice. And that's what I do every time I open CC page. I watch peoples pictures and I comment. We can always find something nice about it.

My first comments on my cakes MEANT A LOT TO ME because as I said before, I've being learning by myself everything in here.

So I comment, and I've being doing it if since 2006. Only recently I started posting on forums. (I don't say I haven't being reading posts, I have, because when I wanted to know something I usually made "search" on forum topics).

CC gave me and keeps giving me plenty, and an essential part of it for me are commenting and reading comments.
And when I like a cake I DO read all the comments the cakes have, because most times tips come on the comments (answers from the decorator made by CCers) and that saves a PM. Not only my PM but from several others CCers that read the comments to.

anamado- exactly

Your cakes are all the same, ho hum. Wow. That was rude!

I'm someone who posts "nice job" comments. Not because I feel the need to write a generic comment, but mostly because I don't have a lot of time to write lengthy comments. I also don't mind when I get those types of comments in return neither. I assume the person is as busy as I am.

When I was new to the site I would be surprised to see a lot of views, but little to no comments made on a cake. Now that I have a little time under my belt I realize that you don't have time to make comments on every single cake you view. Now I typically check how many views/favorites my cakes receive.

Does anyone else feel like deleting all of their photos?

If i received a "negative" comment, i would hope that it is followed up by a referral to a helpful thread or some type of constructive criticism. As people grow, they see their work in a different light. When i first started decorating, what i considered smooth buttercream is totally different from what i consider smooth now, so i wouldn't have appreciated someone saying "Your buttercream is crappy" without referring me to a "how to get smooth buttercream" tutorial, so i could REALLY see what smooth is AND appreciate their opinion. Otherwise, it's just their opinion and you know what those are like.....(smile).

I very rarely comment - i favorite cakes that i really love or have used a technique or cartoon character that I want to try. i simply look at pics for inspiration and dont feel the need to comment on them. it does take a lot of time if you think about every single cake pic you open and like others, im usually on this site at about 1pm winding down from a nights caking so i can't be bothered to comment.....

also i do think those comments asking for step by step instructions to be pm'd to them on a really intricate cake are hilarious - i would pm the baker only and ask a very few critical questions not for a tutorial - people really do not have that much time

Thanks everyone for your opinions! This thread is now closed. Happy Holidays!

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