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Regarding fursuit/convention/personal photos.
12 years ago
OK, not gonna name any names here, but this guy posts a journal saying he's pissed off about people posting artwork that was neither made by them nor for them by someone else, that they're just playing proxy and posting stuff for other people, usually for attention or just to say "Hey! Look what I found!" Now, I can agree with this guy whole heartedly... if he wasn't such a freaking hypocryte!
He's upset that FA is getting flooded by third-party posters, and what does he do? Posts hundreds of pictures of himself in his freaking fursuit! You know what pisses me off? When I post a piece of art and immediately it's washed off the front page by a flood of fursuit posts! This is an art site, not Facebook. Taking a hundred pictures of yourself in the same fursuit over and over is not art. It is not art. It takes zero effort, half the time it looks like crap, and it's just not interesting in any artistic sense. What's worse, these people have fans. And I don't mean a few, I mean there's a freaking fanbase for each of them. You pick an artist of decent quality, no, artists of exceptional quality who haven't risen to uber fame for posting a fox jizzing himself every other day, and compare them with someone who sits around posting himself in the same damn fursuit almost every single post in their gallery, and I guarentee you, the guy with the photos will have significantly more watchers.
So people actually enjoy this shit? And it's not just "watchers" who do this, it's actual artists doing it too. So people enjoy having their work wiped off the front page and never given a chance for attention all because someone had to take thirty pictures of themself at a convention. Not to mention the people who are in group photos, so you know you're gonna see that same photo several times around the site.
I am all for the by-you-for-you rule idea, I love it, but for God's sake, can we do something about the photo spam? It's not artistic photography, it's just some guy with a cell phone snapping a hundred pictures of himself and getting famous, then complaining that he's seeing too much of the same thing. Wake the fuck up, people. I can not be the only one seeing what's wrong with this. How can you honestly say there is no freaking paradox involved in that manner of thinking?
I urge you, no, I BEG you all, help me get the admin's attention on this. To anyone out there who's ever had their stuff denied a fair chance at being on the front page because some asshat posted a ton of pictures of himself, help me do something about it!
He's upset that FA is getting flooded by third-party posters, and what does he do? Posts hundreds of pictures of himself in his freaking fursuit! You know what pisses me off? When I post a piece of art and immediately it's washed off the front page by a flood of fursuit posts! This is an art site, not Facebook. Taking a hundred pictures of yourself in the same fursuit over and over is not art. It is not art. It takes zero effort, half the time it looks like crap, and it's just not interesting in any artistic sense. What's worse, these people have fans. And I don't mean a few, I mean there's a freaking fanbase for each of them. You pick an artist of decent quality, no, artists of exceptional quality who haven't risen to uber fame for posting a fox jizzing himself every other day, and compare them with someone who sits around posting himself in the same damn fursuit almost every single post in their gallery, and I guarentee you, the guy with the photos will have significantly more watchers.
So people actually enjoy this shit? And it's not just "watchers" who do this, it's actual artists doing it too. So people enjoy having their work wiped off the front page and never given a chance for attention all because someone had to take thirty pictures of themself at a convention. Not to mention the people who are in group photos, so you know you're gonna see that same photo several times around the site.
I am all for the by-you-for-you rule idea, I love it, but for God's sake, can we do something about the photo spam? It's not artistic photography, it's just some guy with a cell phone snapping a hundred pictures of himself and getting famous, then complaining that he's seeing too much of the same thing. Wake the fuck up, people. I can not be the only one seeing what's wrong with this. How can you honestly say there is no freaking paradox involved in that manner of thinking?
I urge you, no, I BEG you all, help me get the admin's attention on this. To anyone out there who's ever had their stuff denied a fair chance at being on the front page because some asshat posted a ton of pictures of himself, help me do something about it!
If you have a stellar plan to actually get the admins and/or programmers to implement any changes here, I'd totally back you up!