Cin... there is something in all of us as artists, each of us share it in common. It is a fear of rejection. It hurts us so deeply, the pain is almost unbearable. So many artists have even committed suicide over feeling their work was somehow not accepted in the past... this is how serious a problem this is inside each of us who are artists. In no other trade/calling have I seen it to quite this level as in artists. I think the thing that is going on here, the downside of it, is that people fear they will be rejected perhaps. Or even just fear the pain it will bring others to be rejected, even if they feel certain that their own work will pass, and so would rather this not happen at all than that anyone ever feel pain. From such compassion are saints made :) However... I too feel the same fear we all feel of rejection. As a store tester, when it came time to have to even tell anyone that they needed to fix something, I struggled, it was hard, it hurt to do it, and I wrote the softest spoken letters I could find it in me to write, praising all I could see that was good first, to let them know I DID want them to "fix" what needed fixing, and resubmit to me. I never got anything from those whose products I tested to include in the Marketplace, other than praise and thank you letters, thanking me for trying to actually help. I could not imagine wanting to be mean to someone by rejecting without cause. I cannot imagine rejecting without telling why, and then without trying to help that person find a way to resubmit so that I can then gladly and happily not reject again. And then.. in the end, this is not about rejection from the store. Our guild effort is not about the store, who controls the store, whether the store here will ever change or not (it won't, since those who try to change it for the better will be overcome by those who prefer entropy), or anything at all to do with this store. All it has to do is with a new guild idea. A guild made by artists, run by artists, with achievable objectives that artists can feel good about joining in with, and even benefits to those who do not wish to join, such as the freely viewable information on how to do better craftsmanship we plan, and the independent testing services idea :)