/dpd/ - Drawing, Painting, and Design

>>336

I am board owner, if you can't tell.

I already spoke in email to you about this, but I will repeat myself here since I guess it is good to have these discussions public as people can agree or disagree with me.

Personally I like the idea of no discussion threads, but as you say it reduces board activity, which given the current state of affairs is not good at all. We want to encourage activity any way we can.

So I think having discussion so long as it is pertinent to art is good. No artist hate threads, no drama threads, none of the shit that clutters /ic/. But if you have a thread with some questions about how lighting would work in a certain scenario and want to talk about colour theory or different approaches to representing things or whatever, then I think that's fine. Even more abstract topics like discussion of what makes good design or something. But keep them relevant to actual art and creation, and not just off topic threads or things where people will argue and throw memes around.

I think that all discussion should be regulated to a dedicated thread. Such as a question thread and a general water cooler thread. Also, strict moderation. Shitposting gets deleted immediately, or the boards turns into a less populated /ic/.

>>338

I agree as well, that discussion pertinent to art will be good. If we can make good discussion, it will probably inspire people to post their art, which is a good thing. And keeping relevancy to actual art and creation is something I wholeheartedly agree with.

>>341

Dedicated threads are important, I agree. Question threads are good, but they fail in answering bigger and more important questions. So I think it'll be a good idea to throw in a different type of question thread; a debate thread. So something with a title like; "Debate- What makes good design?" That combined with a question thread always up will probably be healthy. A general lounge/water cooler thread to bring up stories, cool bits of information, or whatever, will probably be good as you said.

Regarding the strict moderation, I agree. If this board starts getting shitposting, it just becomes a less populated /ic/. And that's the last thing I want.

So I think it's important to ask what constitutes as shitposting. Here are some of my thoughts:

-Deliberate shaming of others work/and artists, telling people to quit being artists, stupid shit like this. General unwarranted negativity that serves no purpose. Acting like an idiot, bait comments, sarcastic insults.

-Taking discussion away from the topic on hand, into flaming another person.

-Critiquing other peoples paintovers/critiques unnecessarily. I've seen this happen on /ic/ all the time, and 99% of the time it is unwarranted and leads to more shitposting. If you don't agree with someone's paintover, make your fucking own.

What am I missing?

>>342

seems all encompassing, I would also be harsh on self pitying "I'll never make it" or "Art is a waste of time" posts.

>>344

Right, that's a good one as well. Also, I have put a link in the welcome sticky to a board log https://8ch.net/log.php?page=1&board=dpd

You should be able to see all moderation activity there. Just want to be a little transparent.

>>347

Just to clarify, what are ban-able offenses? Perma-bans?

>>357

Unreasonable, intentional, and repeated shitposting/trolling will get the user's posts deleted, and they will be banned for 3 days.

Repeated moderate-intensity shitposting in one thread will get a user a 1-day temp-ban, and their shitposts will be deleted. Repeating this offense will raise the temp-ban duration by 1-day.

Spamming, posting that is not board-related will get you a 3-day ban. If a user repeats this offense 3 times, perma-ban.

I don't really want to use perma-bans on posters that can potentially contribute. And if someone is toxic enough to earn temp-bans over and over, they're probably going to be able to avoid perma-bans anyway.

>>361

In about a week i'll be more active since exams are over.

I think discussion threads should be allowed mate, they help clear things up for beginners/shite artists like me.

That said, they'll need to be moderated. Things like, "omg Picasso was shite his dad painted for him why dont i have talent" posts are pointless and i hope they dont have a place here.

>>412

Good to hear! Yeah, I'm going to allow discussion threads now. Just don't start useless threads =^)

So, my exams are over. @BoardOwner, did you remove me from Skype? I was going to ask you a question, mind re-adding me? -Ja, from SaltyMango/MR

(You recommended a brush set to me a while ago that i loved and can't remember its name).