I actually agree with this. Although I wouldn't consider my skins anything special, I am happy to recieve criticism on them to improve them (provided it is actually useful information). There are a lot of workshop skins that are made incorrectly or poorly and could be worked on further in my opinion.

For example, a skin (in my eyes at least) that is covered in seam issues, pretty much always indicates someone who is either inexperienced, or just doesn't care to take the time to fix them - I know it's a pain, but it is worth it in my opinion.

A lot of the time there's no point to being overly critical to new work especially if it is not good, either they will get better over time or they rightfully know that they half-@ssed it and have no intention of getting better.

I really don't want to go around the workshop and be THAT guy who ♥♥♥♥♥ all over other creator skins and I'm just of the opinion "to each their own or whatever" (basically don't care about anything that didn't catch my eye with the tumbnail). I guess I gave criticism and some pointers to two creators that were making a lot of skins so the time spent on their skins were actually spent well.

The real problem that I see in the comments of workshop skins is the praise for really out of place skins (like plane-like sharks) or poorly textured (newsflash - flat color looks bad on a skin!). Now the creator will know that there are people who liked it and ... unfortunately will continue on doing the same process without trying to improve. That is a tragedy.

Originally posted by Ray G. Quit:

I really don't want to go around the workshop and be THAT guy who ♥♥♥♥♥ all over other creator skins and I'm just of the opinion "to each their own or whatever" (basically don't care about anything that didn't catch my eye with the tumbnail). I guess I gave criticism and some pointers to two creators that were making a lot of skins so the time spent on their skins were actually spent well.

The real problem that I see in the comments of workshop skins is the praise for really out of place skins (like plane-like sharks) or poorly textured. Now the creator will know that there are people who liked it and ... unfortunately will continue on doing the same process without trying to improve. That is a tragedy.

Exactly, nobody wants to be that one guy to crap all over other people their work. And the lack of people giving criticism results in nobody doing it because it makes them look like a d*ck. Now, I do not encourage people to give aggressive criticism. I just do not want people to praise these unimaginative and out of place skins (like you said). You could, of course, just ignore them but then these skins will just start infesting the workshop page.