Not for the first time I look at my Submission Notifications and wonder "wait, who is this?" with some of the names. Sure earlier this year FA changed it so that what name shows up can be changed aside from the person's main page and that's lead to a more than a few instances of "I don't recognize that name" but I mean more in the sense that I go and look at the person's page and gallery and wonder why they're on my watch list. Their art may be perfectly fine but it doesn't grab me in a way that says "I like seeing their art" or "I'd love to get a commission from them some day" (I bookmark a lot of artists who's art I may find appealing but I'm not sure yet whether to stick them on watch).

I fully admit a few times a year I go through my watch list and remove those who's submissions don't interest me any more or have me wonder why I was watching them in the first place, those that purged their gallery so I have no idea what I found appealing, and occasionally those that haven't posted to FA in a number of years either because they've left FA or stopped posting for some reason. I do this to help keep my notification lists from getting out of control since I don't usually delete notifications from friends, artist friends, or regarding art I like and may want to revisit in the future for ideas or designs so there is a huge number of them at any time. There are times when it can be fun seeing up to 100 new Notifications in a day but less so when I realize that just going through the thumbnails and Journal subjects only a small % of do I actually click on to see fully or read, with a slightly higher number being saved to just check out later before deciding whether to keep the notification or delete it.

But getting back to the topic at hand does anyone else have times when they see their notifications and wonder "who is this person and why am I watching them?". Maybe I'm showing some of my age since I first registered on FA back in 2006 but these tend to be more recent people (within the past few years). Also this could be fun seeing how many people actually read Journals because I'm sure for most people it's a small minority unless the Journal Subject is about a friend, talking about commissions, or a raffle or something about free art (I already admitted I usually only read the Journals for friends and artist friends).