If you can step back from the seeming vitriol of the speakers some of it is very funny, but some recent comments have been mean and intimidating and inappropriate to this forum. My apologies to the many good people who have been supportive of the goals of this site and have been instrumental to its growth.
Please note there is a Code of Conduct under the Discussions Tab. Here's the link: http://www.artfairinsiders.com/page/code-of-conduct. Please read. Most of all, the message is: "Be Nice."
As the originator of ArtFairInsiders.com I have the power to suspend and have just suspended a person who only comes on the site to make trouble and shout at others. Others have been warned. We have much to learn from one another and you had better behave!
Your loving mother...
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So do you think we should have people on here who say to their Mom --DIAF?? I'm sorry but my sense of humor doesn't bend that way.
Now about the thread, MOM. My sweet tequila-swilling MOM. You got a great site. The fact that certain discussions can lead to as many as 20-30 comments, back and forth, I find exciting. Where else are going to get that/ Let the robust flow of info continue, We are all big kids. We can always don an extra set of armour if things get heavy. Don't expel, don't cut off the lively flow--it is these very things that make this site so exciting.
You are my favorite MOM, you even give me gifts some time.
Carole, don't take what I said personally. But try to stay on the thread.
Well put, Phillip. Precisely the point -- oh, and yours too Holly, Munks, Warren, Bill, Michelle, Linda, and the others who emailed me personally. Thanks for caring about this site. With your help we'll keep it alive and kicking and a good place not only to get info about tents but also as a place to share ideas about making a living and making a life...sorry, that is a little trite. When can we get together for that kumbaya? :-7
WHAT I REALLY NEED is information on the St. James Court art show, isn't that what this is all about?
After all isn't that what we are doing with our art? Creating and expressing our opinions through our chosen media. To ask artists not to honestly express their opinion even when they disagree with ratheris like asking the moon to stop glowing in the night.
Connie, I'm really glad you made this site. It has much useful information. It is also a forum in which you have invited artist share not only material information, but opinion. So it should also be expected that some of those opinions can be quite colorfully expressed. I hope that the debates do not lead to censorship of expression. The discussions are one of the things that keeps me coming back, the reason I donated to your site. I agree that we should be civil, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be excited and perhaps a little colorful in our topics.
I was at a show this weekend and this topic came up with a couple of us during a slow period of the show. We agreed that it would be a shame to not be able to discuss things honestly and heated in here at times. In fact it is those topics that keep us coming back.
I've had my toes stepped on a couple of times here myself. I'm a big girl I can take it and I learn from it. Perhaps we should say people shouldn't state their political fews either. I mean after all isn't the economy doing great now, aren't sales just flying out our tents? What do you think of those tea partiers, how about Arizona someone here wanted to boycott. These have all been topics I've seen mentioned here. That might lead to some debate. If one is daring enough to start the debate and others are daring enough to express their own opinion good for them and us.
I love this site, but I don't need someone wagging their finger about and being my mother. Thank you Connie for what you have put into this endeavor, but remember you opened this site to people that can be very vocal at times and it just makes that site more interesting.I'm quite surprised how the finger wagging really stirred my dander, but it just seems wrong to me.
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