Post #685159 by Choptop on Mon, Jul 8, 2013 8:46 PM

Are any of you going to insult Sven?

if he is acting like a pain in the ass? Yes. If he is driving people away from this site by declaring what people should and shouldnt like? Yes. If he has appointed himself to tell all of the rest of us what is and isnt "tiki"? Yes. He's nothing special and doesnt get to treat people poorly any more than anyone else on this site does.

Tell him that he doesn't know what he's talking about?

Yes. If he is proclaiming what is and want isnt art for everyone, then yes I will absolutely tell him he doesnt know what he's talking about. Its not up to any one person to tell another what is and isnt art. Thats the height of pomposity.

THAT is the problem here.

If everyone had stuck to the quote you posted, then there wouldnt be any problem...but thats not whats happening. You have people proclaiming themselves the arbiter of what is "tiki" and what isnt. You have people outright INSULTING others over their artwork ('that looks like a 5th graders art' and such), getting banned for it and STILL not learning a lesson. You have people proclaiming themselves arbiters of "good taste" for everyone else. You have those that think "its only art if a past master worked in the media" and other such ludicrous things. You have several people and its the SAME people over and over, berating people and causing them to leave the site...

THAT is the problem here.

[ Edited by: Choptop 2013-07-08 20:52 ]

[ Edited by: Choptop 2013-07-08 20:53 ]