I have been on all sides of this issue. Way back in the ninties when I was just first wetting my feet in the community, I was stupid enough to make unreasonable requests of the resident talent. I soon started dabbling myself, and quickly realized what a little bitch I’d been.

Since then, I have recieved praise, requests, threats, legal action, helpful commentary, sympathy, and many other things from the community. Sometimes from fans and/or fellow expansion enthusiasts, sometimes from horrible little trolls who seem to think that the ‘net is their own personal playground.

Some of it made me feel good, some of it made me crawl off and cry, never to be heard from again for several years. (I have only recently stepped back onto the scene.)

I think you summed it up quite nicely. The consumers have no right to complain (beggars and choosers, right?), and the artists need to come down of their high-horses. We are a bizarre little community, and without each other’s support and tolerance, we will go the way of the Wren.

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