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goaty
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would you join a furry art gallery website (like FA, weasyl, the other ones) that started out as invite-only to post art, but open to anyone to comment/fav/watch/etc?

Please vote:

yes
maybe, depending on the artists using it
no
not a furry/see results
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shares appreciated to increase sample size!

this is basically a pipe dream, but i'm curious as to what people think of the idea. basically my thinking is that, if i were to start a gallery site, i would not want to deal with moderating a huge community, so i'd start it out small with just people i trust to not post things i don't want to host, then gradually expand as i can bring people on to moderate it.

also, to clarify, this wouldn't be an "is your art good enough" sort of thing, just a "can i trust you not to post real gore or bigoted shit or untagged extreme content" thing. beginners and amateurs and the like are essential to keeping the furry scene alive, and would be as welcome as any other artist, so long as they pass the vibe check, so to speak.


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in reply to @goaty's post:

Yeah as long as it doesn't turn into weird late-90s YERF elitism I wouldn't have a problem with it. That's basically how a majority of the galleries worked in the web1.0 era anyway. An artist and some of their like-minded friends posting together with freeware gallery software

(Partially related pop up thought pardon, but I think that it could merge well.) Just a site that allows you to link images hosted on external image hosts that are tagged on the main gallery site. I understand that image hosting and space is a major issue with up and coming art sites, and I like the idea you proposed, so I was suggesting my idea so that it could avoid that issue. Your idea is cool/pos

There aren't really any good gallery sites right now—they've all got their own slew of issues—so the idea is really appealing... but I've been burned by so many attempts at new ones that I've lost interest in giving startups and betas a shot. Hardly anyone uses Artfol since they only just got a public desktop version, the Buzzly polling incident and ensuing fallout left that site a disaster, SheezyArt died right after inviting a bunch of people to the platform... gotta be honest, tired of submitting my backlog of art to these kinds of things just for the site to erupt in flames a week after! So maybe if some day one of these manages to succeed, I'd consider it.