2. 4 post per month for freebies (even tho I don't post that much)
3. Keep moderators secret, it will just open a can of worms if they are exposed.
4. Keep members posting to 3 - 5 post per day. This 15 - 35 post in one day 3 or 4 times a week is not necessary.
And no I'm not talking about the random images, I'm talking about the post in the different galleries.
5. Eliminate family photo's unless they have artistic merit.
If someone wants to show their family, wedding pictures etc, either create anothr gallery or have a different place to post them.
6. I like the ignore button suggestion. But then I already ignore those I want, just not with a button.
7. Perhaps a religion and politic boards to keep it away from the general membership that wants nothing to do with the other persons views.
2: Currency Converter. Would be useful for the print programme because AW works in $'s. I'm from UK and I work with £'s.
3: Scrap the Top Ten, it doesn't work and never will.
4: Keep Moderators anom and get more people to help out with moderating. There are too many images miss-placed. eg: Photography: Surely all photographs should come under the photography section AW supplied and not in Fine Art etc? AW has a clear definition with photography (anything that was created with a camera). Photographer don't panic, I'm not saying that your images are not art, I'm just saying that they are photographs and should be entered on the site as that!
Right now if someone leaves me a comment in my portfolio my REPLY does not get sent to the commenter. I don't think all the artists realize that.
I would like to see the replies sent automatically as well.
Such a place might be a breeding ground for angst, drama and general dissatisfaction but right now those things are infecting the entire forum. I'd rather have them gathered all in one place so they're easier to ignore. If they fester in one place that non-members can't see, it might improve the atmosphere of the rest of the boards.
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Second, more orientation to art sales rather than an art site.
Third, I've been able to download members thumbnail pictures [as an experiment and print them out A4] so the 600kb size might be reduced to say 26kb which would mean that any images would pixellate if thumbnails were down loaded. Of course putting copyright across the picture can prevent this but it does tend to ruin the picture and maybe the chance of selling same.
Fourth, there is a lot of difference between pornographic, erotic and life-drawing. anything that would be shown in a major gallery and not though pornographic might be perhaps considered okay. I think someone else mentioned this idea above.
Fifth and I've already emailed this one to AW, when browsing it would be nice to be able to exclude certain categories rather than having to choose only one or all categories. For example, a buyer might not want to buy photographs, cartoons, and manga but would like to see all other categories [these are just examples].
It will be interesting to see AW making comments on all the suggestions as they are put down rather than at the end of the exercise.
Thanks for the opportunity.
Regards and a Happy New Year to all
Peter Joe Beard
I would really like to be able to arrange the images in my portfolio.
The creation of Sher's board would be really nice too.
Currency converter good idea.
Personal pictures weddings, birthdays can be used in the general discussion. Even though I am probably guilty of it, I wont mind remove them.
I small wish for me only (maybe) Encaustic Wax Art Listed as medium.
Plus zany emoticons make me happy. :)
here are mine:
1.) i agree, no family snap shots unless they are artistic. people lounging around in their house and saying 'cheese' for the camera just doesn't seem to suit this place or purpose. unless it has an artistic flair, it don't think it really belongs here.
2.) as far as nudes, the naked body is beautiful, and can be a work of art in itself, and is nothing to be censored. if it is done tastefully and artisically, i see nothing wrong with it. if there is porn look to it, that i can understand, but i've seen some nudes here that had the black blocks over private parts, and you can still tell the piece was done with class, and i fell it's a shame they have to cover it up. again, unless it totally raunchy, tasteless, aggressive, porno-esque, etc...i see no need to censor it.
3.) also, can you PLEASE consider listing the classifieds under the DATE in whihc it was posted (starting with most current and working down) and not in alphabetical order please. because there are so many listings, it's hard to sift through them to find ones that are current. if i look at it the way it's set up now, i'll sometimes find a classified ad that might be suiting to me, but see it was posted a year ago, even though it may be towards the top of the list. i can't check the classifieds everyday, so i feel by sorting it from when it was dated, over alphabetically, will give me and other artists to not miss out on possible jobs. some people will still respond and say 'i just saw this, i hope i'm not too late'.
4.) and lastly, it seems flowers as a subject are very popular around here. is it possible to make a seperate category for that. like in the listing where it says magna, design layout, drawing misc, etc...can you add something like 'flowers and plants' or something. there are a lot of amazing flower pieces here, but they seem to dominate the top ten so often, there's been days where 5 to 6 out of ten are of flowers, pushing others artists or subject matters aside. just a thought.
thanks AW! :)
2. I do believe that customer service is and should always be a priority. The artists actually supply the products, the content and the context for this environment ... AW close your eyes for one moment and think if a large majority of the artists left can you say Ghosts Wanted? Better customer service and less de facto knee jerk reactions.
3. More granular subject choices to better fit art into the right category... upto and including family shots so that others have no need to view that subject area if it does not interest them.
I want to second a couple things I read...
1) AW time clock on the page, maybe top or bottom corner... so we all know what time it is in AW land. Great idea!
2) Message boards private/inaccessible by public/non-members - AMEN TO THAT! Also (not sure if it's been done already) to not have the message board posts come up in Google searches... yikes.
3) Flowers/Plants sub gallery - good idea, because there ARE a lot of this type of work out there... good to see them compared against each other. I like that idea. :)
4) And MY GOODNESS YES to the "excluding" certain areas when searching! Often I'd wanted to do a search for something in both "Fine Art" and "Art/Drawing Misc.", but had to do both seperately, because I couldn't just go and exclude the ones I didn't want to see. :) SUCH A GREAT IDEA! :)
5) Along with Pat's "being able to arrange images in our portfolio" - this would be a great idea... the "layouts" are nice, but I think it would be better if we could move images around, in orders that WE want, not uploaded order. Also... with the "layouts" - why isn't there a layout that just has all large thumbnails, instead of a couple here and there, with all the rest as TINY thumbnails?
6) I love the idea of LIVE LINKS on the message boards. SO sick of "copy/pasting" links, that I often won't go see them unless they kinda sound interesting... or maybe someone replied that it was "great" or something... otherwise, too much time. LOL
Ok, I think that covers it for today. TONS of great ideas... it would be a dream come true if AW could really carry through with a lot of these. I think after all of this, they should do a "member's survey" to see what everyone thinks... prioritize, and see how many people are for and against the changes. :)
I also wish we had forums on different topics and could discuss them freely. I believe we as artists need to communicate and help each other rather than to rate others' work.
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