>>9696
I think your are wrong, because it is not about community.
If you speak about artists this site is quite unsuited for artists posting their content.
it is all 99% designed for reposting random stuff on the internet. Even technically threads were designed to expire and self erase after some time.

The main problem is that you cannot organize or aggregate your content in any way, you post something you maybe get some response and your thread fades away nobody will ever see it again unless he is going to browse the entire site. also, according to the common principles commenting on some older thread is kinda necroposting. In essence, this site more resembles IRC/discord/twitter than a gallery.

So only artists who produce a lot of content can use this site effectively because they constantly push it to the top. And even then, older works are quickly forgotten. If you want to update some older stories or check for comments it is hard to find the old thread.


Being "nicer" to artists will not improve things much. Getting a negative comment is still better than being absolutely ignored. Also, negative comments generally provoke people to post something to offset it and create some meaningful discussion. Without negative comments, everything dies very quickly. Positive comments also lose all meaning because you do not get anything besides very primitive "thank you and other meaningless posts. If negative comments are completely banned it will just stagnate everything even more, because now you don't know if you can even post it so better stay silent.
The bigger problem is plain lack of people and this is the result of the hyperspecialization of this site which naturally limits the amount of content and amount of users browsing that content.
Also from the artist perspective, you only post guro content here and still need another place for the rest, so why not just post everything in that other place?

Artists who are focused on money-making do not get anything good from this site, because people here seem to be very unwilling to pay or even consider the idea of paying so they are not going to come here for sure.

If you want to attract more artist you need to focus on improving features of the site usefull for artists.