To be honest, I don't think, honestly, there are truly two people on the planet who will define "artist" in the same way. To me, personally, an artist is one who conveys feeling, and transfers that feeling upon an audience, be it an audience of one, or of thousands. As for "the way things used to be"...as any community grows, there will be growing pains. Mods and admin had them every time they had to close yet another OT forum due to constant TOS violations. This community has grown in many ways, both good and bad. Just like any community, whether it be online or in the offline world. For example: In my apartment building, it has become an evictable offense to own a cat. Now, I, along with many responsible pet owners, not only rolled my eyes at that rule, but I did my best to fight it. My cat now resides with my mother in law after I saw the amount of money and trouble that the managers of the building had to go through to clean up an apartment after ONE bad cat owner. ONE. The expenses are transferred down to the tenants in fees that have ridiculous names that many tenants just sign away on. However, while I may think that the rule is ridiculous, I also know that the managers of the building have taken in pets on a case-by-case basis, and have been fairly lenient. However, after multiple violations from people who were previously considered ok to have the pet, or people who simply could not follow the rules, the rest of us have to literally pay for it. Is it fair? Nope. We had to send a family member to go live away from us. Is it real life? You betcha. As for Spike and his tutorials, you will have to ask Spike about that. We can't tell ya what we don't know. MS

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