Many have said that if you post your work in public you have to expect opinions, but what about deserving them? I think that cheer leading "I love your deck" posts actually do a disservice to the artist, since they are about as useful as "I hate your deck." But I don't see a lot of real and useful criticism or discussion on the part of either posters of artists of their work at all, positively or negatively.
In fact, one of the things that can... irk me... is the usual line saying "that's my opinion and I'm entitled to it." Let's say some one creates an esoteric deck, let's say it's a Thoth clone. I can't judge the artistic merit, which is subjective, but even discussions as to the esoteric merits of a deck are somewhat killed by that statement, even though the symbolism could be completely off and could benefit from further input. I am a little biased towards the Thoth, but a clone of any deck does entail a certain amount of research, which may or may not have been done. I think that here of all places, esoteric merit can and should be discussed without falling to, pardon the expression, New Age line of thinking.
