Lol. I saw that.
Is it really so hard for people to just ignore journals?

The pathetic thing is that I'm the ONLY person whose journal she said it on.

Seriously? That's just.. Petty. :l

Yep, and for that, she's straight on my block list.

I put my first person on my block list the other day.
I made a joke/sarcasm journal about the new rule
And someone who's not even watching me started telling
Me I had to reword it and all that because of the loophole.
It's like.. Really people? Don't you have better things to do?

I know, right?

what did she say?

Told me to delete my journal, but didn't bother doing it to anyone else's journal on the raffle.

And btw, don't bother telling me not to promote raffles anymore either.

why?

Because you'll get the same treatment... and I like you and don't want to have to block you too.

I promote because I care about helping artists grow and think this "rule" is bullshit.

I like this rule. I plan on helping artists other ways. I'd rather have artists get watches and stuff because of their art and not because they are giving away free stuff. You know what I mean?

That may be so, but think about how little exposure any unknown artist gets. If they've just joined, they have little-to-no views and very few people actually watching them. Those few people who ARE watching them may fave a couple of pieces, but by the time anyone would take notice, those same people will have probably faved a tonne of other pictures as well, thus removing the artist's work off the front page of the faves gallery.

Now, it's all well and good saying "I'll make a journal promoting them", but only YOUR watchers would see that, if they even bother to look at the journal at all. It doesn't actually expose the artist at all because very few of your watchers will then go and watch the artist. Even if they do, THEIR watchers won't know about the artist, so the buck stops there.

Think of it like a spider diagram. You have the main circle (the artist), and if you (link 1) promote them, then your watchers (link 2) will know about them... but there's nothing to guarantee any of them will take notice. There may not even BE a "link 2".

With a raffle, one person joins, then 2+ people join because of that first entrant. Then 2+ more for each of the second lot of people who entered, and 2+ more for each after that... (admittedly, it's not always THAT popular, but you get my drift)

It becomes a cascade effect, helping to promote the artist and bringing popularity to new artist and brings new blood to the limelight... Otherwise we'll be stuck with nothing but a few over-priced artists who are always full and will never be able to do enough art. The furry art world will become stagnant with nothing but a few people able to get any commissions because all the younger/newer artists will never get a chance as so few will know about them.

I promote raffles and younger artists because I'm thinking of the future of art. Competitions and such are THE most efficient way to promote people.
What the admins don't seem to understand is that, if the art and easily accessible artists becomes stagnant, people will leave this site. LOTS of people will leave and there won't BE a FurAffinity for the admins to screw up.

I get it on the cash journals. I get that having a billion people making journals left and right can become irritating, but if you're going to watch thousands upon thousands of random people to the point where you're getting more than 4000+ journals A DAY, then that's your own problem. You can't bitch about it "not being fair" or it "being annoying" that people both host and join raffles/auctions/YCHs. They enjoy it, and it's whiners who caused the admins to make this poorly written rule and have to destroy everyone else's fun.

Once again, it comes down to the minority of people whining that ruins life for the rest of us.

If the admins want to stop massive raffle blasts like recently, just ban raffles for prizes of anything EXCEPT art.

So, you're voluntarily promoting this, and not just posting it to enter the raffle?

Otherwise, if you can't spam them like usual, how about at least a roundup of ones you've entered, so those of us who don't follow 50000 people on here can check them out?

I don't enter raffles as often as I used to. Otherwise I would.

However, there'll probably be some artists/hosts who would complain about multi-entry journals anyway.

Complaining about being advertised?

How rude.

It's moreso that some artists/hosts expect their advertising to be the center of attention. Having it bundled in with a bunch of others makes it easier to over-look.

However, you're right. Since advertising is now optional across the board, no-one should have reason to complain if their raffle is advertised alongside others in the same journal.

...maybe I'll start getting back into joining every raffle out there again ;P

Well, they can either put up with it, or they can get NO advertising when you edit the link to them out of it.

exactly