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I recently read a rant on Soap Suds (www.vanillasoap.com), titled "End Times" which made me very excited to know there are people out there who see things sort of like I do. He talked about honesty and he talked about quality, two very big words in my vocabulary.
He start's off by saying, "I remember when people had the balls to actually say when they disliked something and offer critique on things they thought could be improved." I'm sure others out there have made similar remarks with similar regard, but I think it's important to highlight this.
Honesty is not just important within online communities but in everyday life dealing with other human beings. This is because when you lie to someone or give false critique, you are essentially making a fool out of them. If someone does great work, wonderful! Let the person know so they can keep doing fantastic things. Even the untrained eye can recognize the difference between good work and bad work. But in a community environment, letting the untrained or ill skilled hand get away poor work is bad. It's little of both basic psychology and sociology.
For instance, if you continue rewarding a child for good behavior they'll keep it up. But if you never punish the child or never teach the child right from wrong, it's like they'll get progressively worse. Likewise you are teaching the child what is socially permissible. Thus, by not offering honest, fair, and unrelenting criticism and commentary we are allowing the pollution and evolution of terrible work.
Soap Suds continues to write in his next line, "I remember when people didn't pander to shitty 5-minute releases." Another gem. Today, the pace of life seems to get faster and faster. In America people spend more than half of their days working, at least another quarter sleeping and the rest trying to cram in everything else. If you are an artist or designer you should not create in this manner, because it will show.
Everyone enjoys great work and most folks don't mind waiting for it. Look at the work Apple Computer does. A lot of it is excellent and people look forward to new releases, even if it's in another year. My point here is, take your time! Don't rush your work.
As the saying goes, "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right." Isn't it? So go out there today and tell someone they did a bad job, tell someone they did a good and always be refining yourself and your work.
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He start's off by saying, "I remember when people had the balls to actually say when they disliked something and offer critique on things they thought could be improved." I'm sure others out there have made similar remarks with similar regard, but I think it's important to highlight this.
Honesty is not just important within online communities but in everyday life dealing with other human beings. This is because when you lie to someone or give false critique, you are essentially making a fool out of them. If someone does great work, wonderful! Let the person know so they can keep doing fantastic things. Even the untrained eye can recognize the difference between good work and bad work. But in a community environment, letting the untrained or ill skilled hand get away poor work is bad. It's little of both basic psychology and sociology.
For instance, if you continue rewarding a child for good behavior they'll keep it up. But if you never punish the child or never teach the child right from wrong, it's like they'll get progressively worse. Likewise you are teaching the child what is socially permissible. Thus, by not offering honest, fair, and unrelenting criticism and commentary we are allowing the pollution and evolution of terrible work.
Soap Suds continues to write in his next line, "I remember when people didn't pander to shitty 5-minute releases." Another gem. Today, the pace of life seems to get faster and faster. In America people spend more than half of their days working, at least another quarter sleeping and the rest trying to cram in everything else. If you are an artist or designer you should not create in this manner, because it will show.
Everyone enjoys great work and most folks don't mind waiting for it. Look at the work Apple Computer does. A lot of it is excellent and people look forward to new releases, even if it's in another year. My point here is, take your time! Don't rush your work.
As the saying goes, "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right." Isn't it? So go out there today and tell someone they did a bad job, tell someone they did a good and always be refining yourself and your work.
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