There are a lot of threads asking for help und there are a lot of people who suggest things… and
people who are posting their art and tips and tricks. This is for me: The community 1).
Sadly sometimes it is very different to understand the problem when there is nothing else than an image of “some result” and amost no other text than “how fix”… ( yes the to is missing).
And then there are the people who argue why blender is that bad (or this forum). If someone knows some other apps (or forums or is the plural fori ??) someone can see: they simple do not know enough about 3D software …fori or in which situtation to use which technique. Some do learn form the replies → see 1) .
But sometimes when someone suggest things (sometimes easily findable via Menu → Help → Manual ) they even get more pi**ed…
Even more: There are also the people who wants to discuss the problems of the world in this artforum ( i’m not referrring to @anon40845008 here)… or some conspiracy theories.
But this seems the percentage you find everywhere in live 2) .
Anyway:
As everone can see via the FAQ (top left; menu ) → supporting BA → BA Patreon Page the “contant income” is by 147 members with a total of €78.01/month.
Anyone can lookup the monthly cost for:
- server space
- software maintenance
- techical, editorial employee ( which do this voluntary here )
And yes there has to be made a decision about the software to use running this forum. And there is also a forum feature to flag posts which is driven by the community and seems to be used intensively… ( Mostly it seems when someone doesn’t like the replies (s)he get. Because somone can read them before the are flagged. ) And sometimes threads are split and also merged (sometimes because users post the same thing in different categories or even minutes afterwards again → just more work).
And guess what: this decisions are not made by some users who mostly do participate in the non-3D areas of this forum. But flags are…
So some users seems to underestimate the amount of money and work any greater project needs to be “alive”. Maybe because they never were involved in some bigger project ?? IDK Maybe it’s → 2) ??
Maybe they should simply think about what they had agreed to while registering onto this forum, simply re-findable via the about page and further the guidelines and TOS and especially point 3. User Content License ? Maybe they have forgotten
Tip:
To get one own personal opinion published to the world one have to do what every other person have to do: pay for the publishing and get responsible for any juristical counter measurement.
Or simply be more Be Agreeable, Even When You Disagree and do not want to have changed so much because one think one can do better.
Just my two cent about a non–3D, non–art or non–blender related topic.
Happy blending.