Artists or clients?

[aaaamory.livejournal.com]

Is this a community for people to warn artists (about art theft, harassment, disrespectful clients), or is it a community to warn people about artists? I see a lot of warnings about artists. Is that within the original intention of this community?

Comments

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

The description of the community says "Here is a place for artists of any kind, be it furry, fantasy, anime, whatever, that have recieved harassment, threats and just plain disrespect from their commissioner or requestees."

But a lot of people do seem to be complaining about flaky artists as well. Maybe there should be a sister community, buyer_beware or something?

[emlan.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I get what are you are saying...commissioners go with "buying" doesn't it? And since this is already the place for warnings of those kind a sister comm would just be annoying and lead to more crossposting.

[drake-anaya.livejournal.com]

it's really as much artists_beware as it is beware_artists.

I like it that we have both topics in one place. a new community might break it up and even just lead to additional (redundant) crossposting. perhaps a few tweaks can/should be made to the userinfo. :)

[tania.livejournal.com]

I think making a second community would be redundant. It actually seems fair that the same community is used for artists to complain about commissioners and vice-versa. This way we get a more even-handed overview of the pitfalls of the commissioning process from both sides.

[kaided.livejournal.com]

Plus, there's also that some of the people interested in commissioning art, are artists themselves, so it works well together, I'd think.

[thaily.livejournal.com]

A lot of artists are also customers (buying or trading art), so it's nice to know who is and isn't dependable.

[thornwolf.livejournal.com]

both.

[wolf-nymph.livejournal.com]

It's used for both, regardless of the original intention, and it seems to be working out ok without creating another superfluous community.

[synchra.livejournal.com]

BOTHHH.

[go--banana.livejournal.com]

It is (officially) for both.

[anjel-kitty.livejournal.com]

It both really. Its to warn folks about bad business, and also to report art theift. I think it has grown into far more than what was original intended, but it is defiantly one of the most useful and intersting communites about art on Livejournal, imo.

[shinmaxwell.livejournal.com]

This place is for both as far as I know

[korrok.livejournal.com]

I think it works best when used for both, but I think that the userinfo could perhaps reflect that better.

There's no real need for a second community imho, since this one doesn't get a high volume of posts anyway (which can only be a good thing), plus most of the members would crossover as artists often commission work, too.