Post #381482 by JenTiki on Tue, May 20, 2008 11:50 AM

On 2008-05-20 11:07, GROG wrote:
If it's just a thread, that's pretty silly, since MOST of the carvers on here should be included and we wouldn't want the others who don't get nominated to be disheartened.

Yeah, what he said!

With a couple hundred "active" members and at least 30 active carvers on this forum, you're likely to offend plenty of people by creating an exclusive "hall of fame." A thread like this would instigate all kinds of argument over who is worthy, what the qualifications should be, why some carvers might not qualify, etc. There is also a wide variety of taste in style here ... some only appreciate traditional Polynesian carving, some like the big-toothed Florida tikis, and others love the tiki modern point of view.

I say let the carving appreciators peruse the threads of their favorite carvers as they've been doing for years. They already know where to find the art they like, and if they don't, there are already plenty of threads to browse through. Now, if you want to create a website outside of Tiki Central and curate it yourself, then that would be a whole different thing. But I don't think TC is about exclusion, and although I don't think that was your intention, I do think that's what a thread like you've proposed would create.

Just my 2 cents.