>>9716
First, I have to say thank you for all the work you are doing here (even if you seem to dislike me to some extent)
It seems that this site is not really going to improve that much if the situation is as you describe.
If there would a possibility for artists to create their own galleries like on deviant art or pixiv I suspect that server may not be able to handle a load from increased popularity and not even negative comments will matter anymore, because finding a good place to post your pictures is not easy to find.
So maybe that fear has some reason behind it. It is not so hard to make a great site with huge traffic, but it may be hard to handle later if it grows too big.

Speaking about Guro community size again, even if it may seem big for you but it is not that big as we would like it to be. Only a small fraction will participate, while most will just browse. Also, people have different tastes and ignore stuff they don't like what makes it even worse.
Of course, if you count all people with something that resembles Guro interests it will be a decent crowd, but if only a few are interested in the same stuff as you are that's no use.
Take your game as an example, I am not really that interested in girls being raped by monsters(even if I would still try to play it). I would rather prefer something funny. So you will need to find support from people who like girls being raped by monsters and that will be a small fraction of all community.

I did not mean that I want to post negative comments but on some other sites I got banned just because I politely told the artist that I don't like that kind of content and prefer another kind fo content. even saying that your '3d character skin seems to be too blue" is considered a negative comment. artists themselves seem not to dislike it as much as mods who are paranoic about anything that can be understood controversially.
In those situations, you probably can post a picture of horses ass and the only comments you will see is great works please post more, what devalues all comments.
Ideally, you have to keep some balance between positive and negative when you interact with people they must see that in general it is positive but they can expect some negativity as well. being positive all the time will devalue you. In all kinds of relationships, you should seek to remain as unpredictable as possible.

>>I haven't seen many threads that end on "wow this was great, will you do more?"
You must be browsing some other site, because if we look at that art board most threads end more or less like that. (I deliberately checked half oldest posts just now to see if it is right or not.)
Some threads seem to be forgotten because they fell down but nothing even slightly negative. Most end with comments, not with pictures
Looking at your thread you also managed to get 3 comments from just one picture, pretty good result.
You may be referring to the situation that first pictures get some comments and later number of comments drops rapidly.
But this seems to be because all your fans already said their line and they are not going to repeat it for every new picture
To get more comments you need to give people some opportunity to do it. Ask a question or do something controversial to troll them.

When I was translating Japanese mangas and posting then on Exhentai I was getting loads of angry comments on how horrible is my English language.
Then, I got someone to check it and no more comments, nobody cares anymore. At that moment it looks like doing shitty translation is a better idea.

As much as I interact with artists it does not matter that much what you do or how well they are received. Eventually, they seem to get bored and stop making new content or move to other things without even any explanation. No matter how well they were treated and liked.
I abandoned 3d myself for about one year and moved to RP. Now I abandoned RP and back to 3d LOL Also add various work issues and other stuff.
Drawing pictures seem to be pretty hard and slow work not so much fun either, so it is expected that people have better stuff to do.
Doing them in 3d is a way more pleasant experience and also very fast.