Do we have a secret rule where the most faved artist uses a dinosaur avatar?

A good idea! Congratulations to the winners of the awards and I wish you a speedy increase in activity!

I couldn't figure out what is the unexpected heart-award
Now everything is clear. It`s pretty good improvement!

@SovanJedi - I eat stegosaurus

Huh, I was wondering what that new heart-shaped award I got for September was about. Thank you for that! These are greast ideas. :D

Finally, an award I can win!

Pretty cool incentive to start commenting more! I'd love to have a full set of coffee cups in my awards cupboard, but I often struggle coming up with something to say.

That was me, thanks! :)

hahaha I'll take it, finally something that's not green

Who made the lovely icons?

@Jao, the september ones were handed out a few days ago to test the system :). I didn't know who number 3 was, I'm glad I know now!

Good idea, Stava!

Wow, that's an even bigger drop than I thought! Some of that is because of Jal :(

PJ is not (just) about kissing ass, folks. Get on with the questions, opinions and constructive critique!...

Well that was unexpected – not Hapiel being top because he has friendly comments all the time, but I didn't think I actually commented all that much.

Looking at the comments on older pieces, I get the impression that crits in comments were more common years ago. I wonder if people are commenting less because they are more hesitant to critique something that is ostensibly "finished", esepcially now there's an active Discord. I know there's a suggestions section on there (and I will likely post this later) but maybe there could be some sign by an entry to show if a user is happy to receive crits on a gallery piece.

Other than that, I am not surprised andylittle was most favourited. Well done!

Maybe a courage or dedication award or >think of a better name< for person who participated in most weekly challenges in a month would be cool, to encourage weekly challenge participation some more :)

Huh my first top 3 happened in september and I didn't even see that. YES I'LL BE ENJOYING THAT ICON EVEN IF IT'S NOT ART RELATED THANK YOU

You are correct, and this is one of the reasons we have these new awards.

Yeah, it's my impression that commenting has gone down in recent years, more so than other things. Do you have any stats on the comments/favs ratio over time?

Everyone enjoys receiving comments on their artworks, so go out and give your fellow pixel artists some love!