Has anybody read the comments on the mainsite, recently?

[Evil Yoshi Toes]

Totally pulverizing may have been a bit of an exaggeration, but the initial comments on that submission were extremely negative and blunt which usually isn't effective with children and can turn them off from a specific hobby really quickly. Look at how art is taught in schools: elementary school focuses on letting the children explore their creativity without critiques of their work, middle schoolers start to understand what makes certain art more effective than others but still are mostly encouraged to just get their creative ideas down physically, high schoolers start to become more competitive, and college art students are critiqued somewhat harshly to prepare them for the real world. If you told an elementary or early middle schooler that their artwork is a pile of trash, they're going to stop making artwork. I'm not just talking about that specific game because, while I don't agree with how people presented their critiques of it, he did intentionally create a bad game, but I've seen it done on some newcomer's sprites that actually aimed to be good.

I suppose that brings about the question as to where mfgg wants to go. If we become a more professional site with only high quality submissions going through, we'd probably lose a lot of the young kids, which could either be a good or a bad thing depending on what the site aims to be.