[Jedediah]

A few community projects/contributions I'd like to highlight-

JackX has a thread- Commission Cornucopia for the many artworks he has recently sponsored.  I thought that was an awesome gesture on his part to foster artwork and share it with the community.

Elee has posted on here already, but I am always impressed by his internet mining for muscle art- not just here, but any site related to the subject seems to have posts by him.

Refaal is currently organizing an art contest- more on that as it solidifies, but there will be cash prizes involved.

Debido-San has gotten a lot of artists involved in Iscribble for group drawings, as described over in his DeviantArt journal

Personally- I post new artwork on here, when Elee doesn't beat me to it, and I run the FemaleMuscle club over on Deviant Art, which is basically a way to stir up interest and interaction amongst the muscle artists over there- I don't know how well it's working, but we try to keep a monthly theme going and publicize member artwork.

I think there are a lot of active participants and interesting projects going on right now, so I don't understand the complaint.  (Admittedly, I missed out on the Wreck Shop Forums, so maybe I am just living in a dark age and not realizing it.)

Oh- on second read, Collector is talking about a project or content specifically limited to the forums?  The last community project I remember on here was the often revived "Amaz0ns.com Artists Community Pic" thread.  As far as hosting artwork on the forum, I don't think that's an option anymore?  It sounds like it may be possible when Lingster switches to the new forum architecture, which will be cool.

Finally- the basis of the forum is an interest in strong women.  We share common interests, but the goal of the community isn't to produce content is it?  It's to share content.  And I think it's doing that admirably.

[Tonus]

When I need testers I'll be sure to contact those who have posted on this thread.  🙂

You've got a deal. 🙂

[DevonCory]

But the economy thing is just an excuse right now.  Currently yes it's understandable that things are a mess and people aren't going to participate.  But what about after?  I'm willing to bet if people aren't going to step up to the plate it will be just like it was before the economy tanked, inactive.

Well yes and no. Personally I don't write and I don't draw. I'm not an artistic person. My way of supporting the community has always been by commissioning artists. And I did that: over 3,000.00$ in nearly 4 years. I'm not spending that much anymore, obviously because of the economy.

I do agree however that there is more to it: that people's involvement in the community is not what it could be. But my personal opinion on things is that almost everyone out there is out to make a buck. For example, a few months back I shared with you guys an FMG sequence I commissioned. I got a few thanks and then someone contacted me and basically said: "Hey, this looks good, thanks for sharing. It would even look better in color and I am a pretty good colorist myself. How much are you willing to pay?" And I was like: "Fuck, that piece of work you've been appreciating and jerking off to costed me 800$, and you can't find it in yourself to add some colors to it for free?".

And I was pissed… I still am and I'm still waiting for someone to offer his help for free. But that's not gonna happen and in a way it's understandable, especially these days.

I think that as long as people are unwilling to take a step back, to be a little less capitalist about things and show a willingness to work together *gasp* for free, then it's going to be pretty hard to go forward as a community.

Anyway…

Oh and Lingster, if you need testers or something like it, just let me know. Thanks.

[elee0228]

I have a ton of ideas about what to do about the "lack of community", but it's a significant time commitment for me to do it.  Also, it would involve work in Joomla, a platform I no longer have much interest in and haven't kept up with.

However, assuming I eventually get to it, the gist of what I want to do is get rid of the current forum architecture and replace it with Fireboard, which runs native under Joomla and thus consumes fewer system resources.  Additionally, I would install Community Builder, so that each member would have his own profile page, with the option of posting images, blog entries, stories, possibly RSS feeds, etc, and even setting up Yahoo-style groups.

Community Builder sounds interesting.  I'm becoming increasingly disenchanted with forum-style community sites.  A wiki style section with the ability to categorize and sort stuff would be appealing to me. 

Well yes and no. Personally I don't write and I don't draw. I'm not an artistic person. My way of supporting the community has always been by commissioning artists. And I did that: over 3,000.00$ in nearly 4 years. I'm not spending that much anymore, obviously because of the economy.

For example, a few months back I shared with you guys an FMG sequence I commissioned.

Must have missed that one.  I searched a bit in your previous posts, but didn't come across it.  Would you mind posting the link to that thread?

[Solarian, aka LordDaroth]

If it comes to testing (and if I got this right that must be a big IF) count me in!

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