Some artists and their works are not very popular here on DA, but there are always some deviants that will notice and appreciate the work of less-known artists and sometimes give them a fav. The fav is something that means that somebody like your work, see something in it. It can give an artist the motivation and the assurance that there is always somebody who notice his/her art and appreciate what she/he does.

This type of favs are sincere and serious, they say that the person who gave them likes this particular piece of work.


But there happen also different situations.

I submited new piece of work. After a while I got two faves.
'Great' I thought 'Somebody likes my picture!'.

As it normally happens, I went to my Favourer site. I was just about to send the usual 'thanks for fav' message and then go to see this deviant's gallery, when I saw that there are suspiciously many 'thanks massages' on the main page of this Deviant, and, what's even more weird, they've been sending every 30-40 seconds for the last hour. WTF?

Hmmm, lets think... Yes! I've already seen it somewhere!

There's the Deviant giving HUGE amount of faves at almost the same time. Most of the times, the Artist is very popular and has really good gallery, which makes all the situation even more disgusting...

Sadly, this person will not even go and see my site again so what's the point?
Of course, there is a point. Very simple point. It seems like somebody is doing it only for others to come and see his/her profile. More views?
Oh yes.

Sorry, but I cannot believe that the person likes SO many DIFFERENT pieces of art and favs ALL of them ( to see it you can just go to main page of the Deviant and read all these 'thanks masseges' sending every 30-50 seconds...)

That is so unfair . Especially for the deviants that do not have popular galleries and for whom every fav means A LOT.
I am not saing that for the popular ones faves do not mean anything. But for them, those two or three faves more are not so important like for the others, less popular ones.
For them, these two or three faves are often the only ones they get.
And it does not mean that these unpopular artists create 'a crap', beacause being popular here not always means being very good (but that's the different topic...)



The thing is, that this way of giving favs is unfair, ugly and harmful to all the Deviants that want their art to be noticed.



So please, give your faves for those, whose work you REALLY like. It means A LOT to all of us, as Deviant Art Users - these more popular, less popular, for both artists and art recipients.
Let's make Deviant Art the place where art is truely and seriously admired and appreciated!