Why You Didn't

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I'm not talking about me, here!
Have you ever been looking at a deviation on this site and really wanted to comment, to the point where you were really feeling it and knew what you wanted to say, and maybe even have started typing, but then, for whatever reason, you decided not to comment after all?

Was it because your Comment was negative, so you kept it to yourself? Was it because you didn't know the artist, so you don't know what makes them mad and what doesn't so you withheld your Comment out of fear? Maybe your Comment was a critique, and you didn't think they'd want one?

Was it because the thing you were thinking was a little thing that may not bother everyone, but personally bothers you, so you tried to put yourself in the artist's shoes- based on the possibility that they could be like you- and didn't give the Comment because you wouldn't want to receive it?
Or did you think your Comment was too short, or unoriginal?

Yeah. I was just reading some stuff on here:rabbithole:yesterday and it got me thinking about this subject, and suddenly want to bump my previous Journal with this question. If there are ever times on this site somewhere where you truly want to comment on someone's work badly enough to actually do it, but you don't, what usually stops you?
For me, it's bad memories.
For most people, it seems to me to be because the artist they're trying to comment to is famous.
What is it for you?
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RetSamys's avatar
Oh, for me it's time. I could write essays on everyone's art, but I really can't. So I won't even leave a short comment. dA just has so much stuff and yet, some people say it's dying out. I can only laugh at people saying that.