A good reason why -NOT- to post an "FA Sucks" Journal.
9 years ago
1) The Artists you love and follow. They've been out of work for a week, and posting dozens of said journals will flood out their commission/stream/auction journals they need to make this month's rent.
2) We were all here for it. You're preaching to the choir in a journal simply to say how you're fed up with FA and it's irresponsibility to it's users.
3) If you have decided once and for all to leave FA. Don't do it immediately. At the very least, Let people artists who still depend on FA to make their living to get things settled. Start building your portfolio on another site, and quit FA at a later date when your fans have had a chance to transition as well.
Best thing to keep in mind is that we're -all- already aware of how much FA sucks these days and how bad it's top level staff are doing with it. We all know just as well as you do. But there are many, -MANY- artists here who cannot afford to cut ties with it. Their fanbase is centered on this website, and they rely on said fanbase and commissions in order to make their living. To simply cut ties all together would be suicide.
And filling out everyone's inboxes with dozens of "FA sucks and I'm leaving forever" journals does little more than further hinder those artists, who have already been dead in the water with FA's week long downtime.
We know you hate FA, But please be respectful to those who can't -afford- to leave FA like you want to.
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If FA really is your only way to communicate with all your commissioners, you are doing something wrong as an artist. Move over to e-mails and/or get an alternative site people can contact you on.
I'll peck you.
Also, you pecka, you pecka head!
Gon' peck!
i tell you.
They expect everything. if it doesn't work, throw it away, pecking around like a bunch of hungry chickens.
Every single time.
No loyalty, no sense of solidarity. They get so over stimulated by a lot of this artwork though, that NOTHING impresses them anymore either.
Besides, welcome to the internet. Sometimes stuff just goes down and you have to pretty much deal with it. It's not like 2 days without FA was going to kill anyone, it maybe prompted a little slowdown on part of the commissions. People make big deals out of minor things, sadly.
In any case, thanks for posting this. Nice to have some sensible and even-tempered thought in the middle of all this!