A: Over the next few months, we will be creating additional statistics reports that will give our members more details on 'where' the hits are coming from. We do have our 'referral' report for premium members that shows which websites are brining you traffic, but it does not show internal traffic at this time.
A: We do not have a new general discussion area. We have allowed a few topics to be allowed to continue for people to talk about what they would like to see, but this is not the new general discussion area. Keep the topics to art related themes.
A: With the removal of the GD board, some are struggling to know what type of topics can and can't be posted. This is just a transition phase and there are bound to be a few topics that are posted here that are not art related. As time passes, the rules for the new boards will be clearer and our mods will begin removing more posts that are not related to the forums we have setup.
A: Contrary to popular belief, we do have at least one staff member on our site every day of the week, including weekends. If you look at the times when our staff posts replies to message board threads or responds to e-mails, you will often see these posts/replies on the weekends (like right now). However, it is true that we have FEWER staff members on the weekends, then during the week, just because it's an 8-5 M-F job for most of them.
A: We are already removing many topics on a daily basis that do not apply to art related topics. There are a few others that we have allowed to be here, just to ease the transition away from the GD boards. In time, they will all be removed.
A: We are not sure, just repost your question.
A: We have looked into building something like this, but this feature would require an extra amount of database lookups, which may increase the loading time of the site, which is what we are trying to avoid right now. We are working on speeding up our site at this time, and once we feel this has been improved, we can look at other features like this one to see how they will impact the loading time of the pages on our site.
PS - We are no longer going to answer questions about past members and continue to bring up old news that pollutes our site. If you have a question about past members, you can use the CONTACT US link at the bottom of any page to contact our staff and get the answers you are looking for.
A: Yes, if someone clicks on your name anywhere in the site, it goes to your main portfolio page. This ask tracks a 'hit' to your main portfolio page, which is recorded and displayed in the graph at the bottom of your members area.
A: The time it takes to have your image replaced just depends on when you uploaded it and when our staff reviews these for the day. We don't wait 24 hours to do it on all images, we just normally do it once a day, because there are so many other things we are doing on a daily basis. Depending on your timing, it may only take an hour before these images are updated in your portfolio.
If the member wants to select PIC OF THE DAY member will have to leave comment (without comment member wont be able to select pic of the day....Now once that is done that very same member wont be able to do favoritism again to that same piece due to the fact that member have to leave comment and member already commented on...That will ROTATE 1000's of un-exposed pieces and eleiminate favorism...what u think AW? lets separate top 10 from PIC OF THE DAY....right now they are working same way...
A: We beg to differ Bianca. All of the top ten reports are based off the most comments, or most hits, or some other criteria. The pics of the day have no criteria to meet, someone only needs to find some artwork and mark it as their pick of the day. Any artist and any image on our site can be the pick of the day without meeting any criteria or being the 'top' of any list. It's your chance to hight-light any artist on the site that you feel needs a bit of praise.
A: We don't currently have any ads in any national magazines. We have done it from time to time in the past and have placed ads in Communication Arts, HOW and other smaller art magazines. As our memberships increase, we will have a larger budget for these type of ads, that are normally quite expensive on a national basis.
A: Yes, this is a feature we will be releasing soon. We will be separating the favorites from the pics of the day, so that you can do just like you have said.
A: Bianca, our site is already programmed this way. You don't have the ability to pic the same art on different days for the pics of the day. Once you have picked it, then you won't be able to pick that image again.
Many other changes are coming in the near future to the 'pic of the day' feature that have been requested.
A: When possible, we also ban an IP address so that this can't happen. However, there are ways around this and we truly couldn't stop anyone from being on our site if they were determined to get in. There are just too many ways on the Internet to look anonymous, so that we don't know if they were a past banned member or a brand new member wanting to join our site.
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