User blog comment:Nalyd Renrut/Be Nice - Please Read/@comment-4669666-20110821204149

I agree that the FI ballot is becoming a little harsh. Most of the comments are new users though. Except #7. That's me. XD. I'm actually glad you said that is sounded somewhat like constructive criticism, because that's what I intended. First off, I'd like to say that two other users (not naming names) said the same thing in the same polite manner as I did, but then switched over to support for a reason I don't understand. I wasn't opposing it solely because it was hand-drawn, but because the standards for hand-drawn Featured Images is above the norm. The amount of effort put into it was obviously more than most of the pictures on the ballot, but since hand-drawing is harder than drawing on the computer, it simply did not live up to the standards of the regular FI's that we have. The only handdrawn image that I know has been featured had been done by Sunshine, who is INCREDIBLY talented. So, I wasn't opposing it because it was handdrawn, but because it didn't really live up to the quality of past Featured Images because it was handdrawn. I admit that it was really well done and that it probably had more effort than most of the images on the ballot. I hope I didn't hurt the illustrator's feelings.