I'm still getting commissions. That hasn't changed. What did change was that when I went to upload some of them I ran afoul of one of FA's content guidelines. I didn't receive a warning or any notice. I simply logged in one day and was greeted with a "you have been permabanned" banner. I was able to work through the appeals process to get the van reversed, but that has made me apprehensive about uploading content.

This is especially problematic for me because I tend to add a lot of dialogue, and background text (posters etc.) To art that I commission. This text is where the violation occured. What that means is that every upload I put up is a potential bomb that can go off in my face. This is even without malicious intent or some history of uploading forbidden content. Save for the permabanning and one image takedown I've never had any interactions with FA's. This also seems to be against FA's own policy of violation escalation (with permabanning being the absolute last resort with 4 tiers before that) though frankly I have no idea if that was their policy at the time.

I get a lot more value out of FA as a content aggregator and communication dropoff than i get out of sharing my own content. I don't get any kind of thrill for uploading, it was just a side thing I did for fun because I thought others would enjoy it. So risking getting permabanned for some mistake in the future to do something that's more for other people than for me is not a profitable move.

The above is reason one. Reason two is that I strongly dislike the sites attitude over harassment. I get death threats and shitty notes on a semiregular basis. They don't really bother me, I just ignore the person, and move on. But FA's policy is to not punish these people. As long as they don't try to circumvent the block they're welcome to say whatever they want to you in the initial salvo. Which just leaves me flabbergasted.

The third reason is I don't like the slow-creep of progress deplatforming and censorship that's worked it's way in the code of conduct and acceptable upload policy. One that seems skewed towards banning right wing extremists from the platform exclusively. I have no specific desire to consume any of their content, and I find 99% of far right ideological convictions abhorrent, but I don't want a platform picking and choosing what content I should be looking at.

All these reasons, but primarily number one, are why I don't upload art here anymore.

PS. Please don't take this as some kind of attack or screed against FA. I'm just trying to explain the haitus and why it's probably never going to end. I may move to a mastadon instance and upload content there. Or Twitter, though Twitter has extremely vague policies about transgressive content and enforcement of banning for posting it.