Artists post their work for feedback and comments, usually in an effort to improve their skills, or sometimes just to show how skilled they are. Feedback is usually either constructive criticism, letting the artist know how he or she can improve their work. Other comments usually give the artist confidence, allowing their future works to be less restrained by feelings like "I'm not a great enough artist to pull this off."
We want replies because that's the purpose of this forum. We display our work for feedback. This forum isn't special in that respect - each of the other forums involve a member posting ideas, and they hope their topic will generate many replies.
Speaking for myself, I don't reply to a topic if I have nothing interesting to say, or if what I would have said has already been said by another member. Dragadon, I had no idea you were so sensitive when it comes to people looking at your work.
Also, I don't agree with you that high ranking members get more posts than regular members. I'm the highest ranking member of Oddworld Forums, yet the number of replies to my posts in the Member Art and Literature forums are actually in the lower numbers compaired to other people's topics.
Finally, I think there is such a thing as good and bad art. Excusing bad art as simply being of a different style doesn't hide the fact that it was executed with carelessness, shows poor composition and needs more work. There are many different styles of art, and within each style the potential exists for an artwork to be good or bad.
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