GASR Forum Move

The Graphic Arts Services and Requests (GASR) forum is being moved as early as tomorrow, July 17th to the "social" section of the forum index. All of your bookmarks and saved links will still work - they will just be moved to what is being called "the appropriate place" by forum moderator, Ewe. Check out the discussion thread here.

What does this mean? Most importantly, it means that posts in the GASR forum will no longer count as posts made in regards to Tiers. No word if this means all previous postings this month will count or not, but from tomorrow and forward you will no longer earn points by posting in that section. It's my understanding that your current posts probably won't count.

Personally, I hope that by moving the section, we will see less spam but that's highly unlikely since it is being placed in the social section of the index. It raises a question - Are graphic artists not considered content creators? I'd like to think yes, of course they are! The dare I say unbelievably talented artists who frequent the GASR forum are in their own right, content creators and deserve to earn points based on their community participation. It's a shame they are being moved like this. I see IMVU's point of view, but it's sad.

As stated on page 2 of the thread posted by Ewe in regards to this change...

"The placement of GASR has been discussed for a long time - it is not closely enough related to Content Creating to be a Content Creator forum. When Tiers were introduced this became even more of a concern.

While some people choose to offer catalog icons and banners as pieces within their shop, this is the only loose connection to content creating this forum holds.

The primary purpose of the GASR is the trade of Art. Be it a catalog icon, avatar picture, drawing, etc, it is social. The GASR is permitted more leeway with "spam" than any of the true CC forums.

The primary purpose of having the Content Creator forums included as a possible way to earn tier points is to reward those who are helping others directly in relation to the Content Creating program.

As such, staff has finally agreed to move the GASR forum.

Now - the direct question i received was, will the posts made already go towards tiers. I cannot answer this directly, and I am not sure how long it would take to get a direct answer, but I will ask.

However, based on what knowledge I have on how the forums work, and how the tiers work, my best guess would be that no, they will not. Once the forum is moved, the posts will no longer be under the CC category, and therefore will not be included when the system collects post counts from the forums still in that category.

I understand that this may be a bummer for some, but, the GASR is not an area that is really fulfilling the purposes that were in mind when making the forums part of the tier system."

Thank you to Violated for this news tip.