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Clarification for experienced users interested in this class
TL;DR – Try you’re hardest; always do your best within class context! If you’re concerned about ‘flexing’ I’d say that’s proof enough that your intentions are not to show-off.
I see there’s some concern from experienced/advanced members about participating in the class but coming across as a ‘tryhard’; a show-off. It’s true that I always state in every class that show offs are not welcome here to flex. Let me try to clarify what I mean by that.
In a way, it’s intentionally ambiguous and meant to challenge someone to assess their actions preemptively more than it is a black and white rule. Honestly I’ve yet to see anyone flex in a class. And my metric for that is simply the fact that I’ve never sensed flexing and I’ve never seen students complain that someone is/seems to be flexing. I think that if someone is flexing, it will be easily sniffed out by the community. So far all participants have submitted homework according to their skill level within the context of the class and its assignments.
That’s key imo: Keeping within context. So for this class being aimed at beginners, intermediate-to-advanced users (non-beginners) support that aim by being an example and resource. @charmn-one is on point here:
…we can post our lessons, but explain that we have more experience than a beginner. Maybe post our blend files, so the beginners can download and pick apart our projects to ask questions. That way, we’re helping and participating?
That’s a fantastic approach to helping beginners! In fact if experienced users were absent from doing this, the class would be worse off. Having experienced users participating like this is a huge benefit.
On the other hand if experienced users submit clearly advanced homework and say nothing; offer no insight – that’s suspect. Frankly there’s not much room in the homework (aside from the last week I suppose) for flexing; they’re all pretty simple assignments that would be difficult to flex.
I hope that clears things up!