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I'm not embarrassed to say that I love teaching art. Were my career as a painter to suddenly (please) go off the charts, I would make time to teach. It's an integral part of the process. Continuing Ed or BFA, I enjoy them equally, though not always for the same reasons.
A forum, however, is different. If I have a class, and a student shows me a piece that makes me cringe in horror, and then asks me for a critique of that piece, I must grit my teeth and go in as honestly and as deftly as possible. It takes a while to get this combination just right. Of course, it is my job to do this. But, if I open a forum thread and see something truly horrific, I will choose not to even try, for 2 reasons:
1- Communicating on the web is so very different than reality that it is very easy for things to be taken the wrong way, out of context, etc. If a work is especially bad, the odds are stacked that things will go awry. 2 - Resultant of this, it is best not to try, and therefore makes my life and the poster's life easier. For if the poster is ignored , they will get the message much more clearly than if any wordsmith were to comment with sage advice. And that message would be, "You need much more experience with basic stuff before posting, but I think you already know that."
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"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
- J.R.R. Tolkien
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