I've been on this site for a little over eight years now. During that time I have met many wonderful people and have enjoyed watching their work. Many of the people on my watchlist were already great artists from day one. Others I have watch grow and progress to the point they are now. Nobody on my watchlist is there just because. Everyone is either someone I enjoy speaking with, who's art I have an interest in or someone I saw potential in and wanted to watch as they grew and changed.

Because of this my watchlist has always been very very very large. This has never bothered me. But today I made an effort to remove a lot of the oddball things in my gallery that had no basis on my own art and this lead me to look at my watchlist. I have started today going through my list one by one. I had almost 900 people on it to start. Many of the people who were my friends and artists of interest have been gone from this site for years. I have begun removing anybody who has had no recent activity.

To anybody who I remove over the next few days I would like to say, it truly is nothing personal. I didn't watch you by accident, I watched you because you drew my interest and I wanted to see more. I would still like to see more and will watch you again if you start posting again.

I've been putting off doing this for some time now. I truly would like to see these people come back and post more and that has caused me to procrastinate. All while I still find new people who's work I want to follow.