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I agree with you to a point, to a point where working in a company it's a controlled setting where we are obligated to certain performance in exchange for pay.
Here, on rendo, it's a more unconstrained group. Sure, it would be nice if more people rose to the standard of mutually beneficial and community enhancing behavior. I think I addressed that earlier, it is something that I see as a nice thing to strive for, but not something thatI'll get upseot over or feel left out or slighted if it doesn't happen. Perhaps I'm under the impression that there's a hefty dose of self serving and comfort seeking in human nature, and that social responsibility comes in as a pretty distant second or third.

In an uncontrolled environment, such as rendo (as opposed to the workplace) most of the weight of being socially responsible is left up to people self policing. In my experience, self policing in large groups, especially those revolving around enjoyable passtime or hobbies is pretty ineffective. It's usually more effective in sports and professional circles, where the consequences to the individual are greater if they undermine the group.

Here, if/when people undermine the group, the effects are not immediately obvious, but are more of a slow erosion kind of an effect.
I do understand what you mean though, appealing to a level of social responsibility within the group. I'm extremely doubtful that it's something that can be successfully promoted here.  But then again, it would be beneficial to rendo top prove this cynic wrong :)

 

Well, okay, if you take me literally. Could have made the same analogy to a Community Center where they play Bingo, but one group wants to gossip... same effect.

I'm not posting a solution, I'm not even posting a call for a solution. Perhaps I misinterpreted, but it seemed to me that people within this thread have made remarks to the effect of this being an "okay" behavior. The first step in any of the legion of 12 step programs is you have to acknowledge there's a problem...

In the end it's up to Renderosity as the owners of this community to either act and try to change the system before all the better, best and dedicated artists decamp; or do nothing and watch their numbers dwindle. IMHO as long as they keep providing any system that leads to competition in the galleries they are always going to have this problem as people will always scheme for a way to be on top without having to actually exert any real effort to achieve that level.

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