This isn't spam. Please believe it. I simply want to let my friends know the new artworks I'm creating in freedom. I'll feel myself honored if you'll write in my guestbook there.
My new gallery: www.artmajeur.com/salas.
Thank you. That's all, folks!
I'm afraid I don't see any point in staying.
You may not get the reference to Facebook.....I posted a thread to suggest that those of us who find it hard to keep in touch on these boards might find that site an easy way of reaching our friends. It's not an art site, no threat to AW in any way and it was my intention, if enough people were interested, to set up an AW group there which would have sent a lot of traffic back here.
BUT AW perceived it as a threat, I guess, and pulled it.
Only what, 3 or 4 posts back, I was bending over backwards to try to keep this community together, as I have done for some time now but nothing is appreciated.
I'm not leaving completely, Gracie, but I've asked to downgrade to a free membership because at least then I won't be paying to be upset lol. Mail me any time you feel like it......but my days of posting on here are done.
Take care....you're a very sweet person :)
PS...they will probably pull this too lol
PPS... Pete's thread gone too ? That just tells me that I made the right decision. So sorry, Pete and again, Armando.
You guys know I'm slow to catch on - but it's now quite evident that AW want's all of the people who frequented and enjoyed the GDB gone.
I too downgraded to a free membership - but now I'm looking for another site to move my work to. I've never sold anything here and the stuff I ordered was late or never came at all - so why stay? The people (good, bad and even the ugly) were what's kept me here.
Now I wish they had just cancelled 'our' memberships if they wanted us to leave that bad - it would have been kinder and most of us who stayed would not have spent so much time and energy trying to keep the boards alive.
I'm sure this post will be gone fast too.
My view on the general discussion board - leave it out or keep it - either way I'm here for the art, not the conversation.
Also, to clarify a few of the previous posts. We have no problems with Facebook, nor do we view it as a threat to AW in any way. The reason why that thread, and several others are being pulled, is because they are off topic and have nothing to do with ArtWanted.com or art, which are the new message board rules.
Topics about Facebook, Youtube, Ebay, the San Diego Zoo, your trip to Chicago, a funny joke you heard and your grandma's famous cookies will be more than welcome if the General Discussion board comes back, but until then, any post that is off topic will be removed for the simple reason that it is not following the guidelines.
We are not trying to kick anyone off, or upset anyone, we are just trying to uphold the rules of the boards as we have done since they started. As long as topics meet the guidelines of the forums, then there will never be a problem or a thread deleted by our staff.
It's reallly sad that you are sending many of your most loyal members the message that this is no longer the 'special' art site we felt it was. You're also sending us the message that we aren't wanted, needed or appreciated.
Mabe if had you pulled the topics that were becomming heated from the general discussion board instead of letting the rules be broken over and over, that to would have sent a message also and there may still have been a GD board
I did my best not to get involved in wars, because i did not wish to be a rule breaker or be a part of the never ending mess that the staff let go on,perhaps the report button was broken i am really not sure.
I did love the good topics that were there and looked foward to them.
The board did give a sence of community/family and even in reality there can be conflict, it is just a fact of life.
None had to look at the GD boards if they did not want to or if they did not like it, yet many seem to say they did and did not like them ,so they should just be gone because they think so.
I believe many joined this site with nothing but art in mind but ended up finding some new friends and that was a plus to many on this site, in a scense when they were seperated from them when the GD area was closed.
Many people are left with a feeling of emptiness,because thay can no longer share the day to day things that are going on in their lives as they had.
It is understandable,
yesterday you found something wonderful and today it is taken away because rules were not followed by some and were not enforced by the ones that set them in place.
OK heres my art,
While the rose withers in the darkness someone cries for the door to open.
Can there be something besides a brick wall beyond the door?
Where does the light come from?
To all my AW friends,
A Big hug!
Pat, as we have said many times, we understand that the GD boards were used by many to make friends and share daily experiences. We created the GD boards for this very reason. However, the rules were ignored and it has been closed because of it.
We very much apprecaite all those that participated in the GD boards and this is not the message we are trying to send in any way. The only message we are trying to send at this time, is that topics that don't meet our guidelines will be removed and that the GD boards were abused by those that used them, and because of that, they were closed.
AW, it seems that honesty expressed here is taboo (from all the posts that have been pulled about AW specifically) and you only wish for members to "post like nice little girls and boys." We aren't children and those who have insisted on acting like children in the past should have been dealt with a long time ago...... by YOU!! You are now cutting off your own noses to spite yourselves because of your own LACK OF CONCERN AND ACTION a long time ago!! You can delete posts, slaps hands and try to manipulate any/all of us but you won't change how any of us feel by treating us all like children. Where were you for the many, many months that harassment, personal attacks and such went on for days, weeks, even months??? Where were you when feelings were hurt, members left in anger because nothing was done..... what now about the certain members who were allowed to do as they please unending and you turned a blind eye?? Your rules were in place then too..... seems like a bit of overkill now, don't you think? Maybe if you had taken notice and did as many of us suggested then, you wouldn't have these issues now..... in your mentality, "spare the rod, spoil the child" seems to fit here???
Go ahead, slap my hands again. Confirm what others already suspect here and tell your most loyal members who have seen this site through the worst and the best that we can't be human any longer..... make it all about art only???? That's not logical in any artistic community and you know it. Ban me if you must but it won't change the facts!!
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