So, while I was web surfing for other gfx forums, a buddy of mine sent me this IM with a link in it. It happen to take me to another forum for gfx he was on. While I was looking around I saw a lot of things I liked and the people were really nice to new comers. So I thought "Okay, this might be cool." That was until I came across a thread called "Sigs I've worked on." while reading though, the first couple of post I got so mad.

My girl friend who was next to me actually had to calm me down. It was utter crap. The people of this site were bashing this poor 14 year old who just started photo shop for using renders and not his own art. Now I can understand giving him crap playfully, but these people were bashing his soul into the ground. I couldn't figure out why I was posting this on here, until I thought about it a bit more.

So I came to this conclusion; why do people do this? Is it lack of talent on their own behalf? Perhaps they where bashed the same way when they first started? Or is it something so little as to they just didn't like his style of sigs?

Could someone give me some insight to this?