Which is completely valid, a lot of people do this out of the kindness of their hearts on top of school/work/whatever(bare in mind MANY of these artists are easily skilled enough to be taking full on commissions), and I've alone had MULTIPLE people never even respond to the artwork I've spent some 2-3 hours on :/

It's disheartening and honestly sorta embittering, my general quality of work for requests has gone down as a result--there's always this looming fear they won't even see it or care, it's hard to rationalize dedicating so much time to something that easily might be ignored :c

I like giveaways/requests, and I've typically fulfilled every.single.last.request I've been given no matter how ridiculous or uninterested I was in the actual request, but the artists who post these threads are in no way whatsoever responsible for actually following through imo. It's an offer, not a contract; they ought be free to pick and choose how they please, otherwise this really just ends up some kind of messed up labor extortion :/.

At the same time it's perfectly reasonable to have inactive threads removed after a certain period of time, of course, it's not however reasonable to attack an artist for honestly expressing a common sentiment among other artists :I And if that's really what this community is about, I really don't think it deserves the artwork produced by the awesome people who frequent it :/

Glagh, sorry, ranty mcrant rant, but seriously the mass downvoting is pissing me off to hell and back >:I Completely unwarranted