I also think a large part of her retreat had to do with various imageboards and the disrespectful and immature users of those boards, as well as numerous creepy e-mails and requests from "fans" asking her unsettling questions. She just didn't want to deal with the increasing weirdness.
--JMH
--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, Scrapper Black Dragon <scrapperbd@...> wrote:
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> Des used to participate on the group from time to time, but she doesn't get much (any?) enjoyment out of the interaction - it doesn't have much value for her - so she prefers to use her time doing other stuff. And fair enough.
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> It did cause a bit of clamour when she has posted, particularly when she announced that Jim had bleeding in the eyes from his diabetes (hooray that entire eyes and diabetes saga is over!).
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> People like artists they feel they can 'connect' with - one of the reasons this group has remained popular. We keep a tight fairly rein on what is posted, keep things in order, Jim continues to add new things to the group and interacts with members and participates in discussions. It makes Jim and Des seem like real people as opposed to some illusionary magic figure on the other side of the computer who conjures artwork from the air. Well, almost, a lot of hard work with drawing implements, but the image otherwise appears conjured from the air. ;-)
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> As Jim has acknowledged, you have limited time to do things, so he needs to strike a balance between real life, real work, athro art and 'chatting on the group'. So it is very good that he provides us with as much time as he does.
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> There was an interesting poll on this group a while ago that surveyed what people like about the group - the big things were the artwork and participation from the artists. Both of which feature well on this group.
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> Scrapper, Black Dragon, SAMA Group Moderator, also trying to balance a life, job, art time and group time. :-)
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> --- On Tue, 4/8/09, Miguel <my.resistance_at_...> wrote:
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> what if des did comment and say stuff on the group, would there be a big change in the group?, i'm just asking, i think that there would be oodles of art by both jim and des do you think?
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