I want to start a movement.

Not necessarily a successful movement, but I want to have an impact on the community.

I am a frustrated person. Frustrated with comments from the deviantart community. Or lack thereof. As deviants, we should all know the pain of having spent anywhere between six hours to several days on a treasured piece of artwork, and then returning a week later to find out that only a handful of individuals cared to spend fifteen seconds of their precious time thinking of something to say about it. There is a reason why the commenting system exists. To let others know what you think of their piece, and to help pass constructive criticism to the artist. When the system is misused or disused, all of DeviantART could easily fall into decay.

So I have decided that it's time for a change. Time for random commenting. Maybe not just random commenting, maybe organized commenting, spontaneous commenting, constructive commenting, any and all of those.

One can do much to help. Always, whenever possible, should you try to think of at least a little something encouraging to say about another artist's work, be it someone you have known and watched for a long time or just found out about on the front page. There are few things more encouraging than running into a person, any person, even and especially one you've never seen before, and then hearing them tell you how much they like your work. So why not give the artist the pleasure to log on to a warm, stacked inbox full of loving comments?

Practice what you preach. Then preach what you practice. Spread the love.