Introducing /r/CommercialArt

[Fable74]

I was just being instigative toward a thread that feels like spam. And I personally have little to no interest in bothering with a place like Reddit.

It's not about being mutually exclusive. I want to be convinced to bother with the site the OP is talking about. Especially when the main reason for this thread is to get users to join and contribute to it.

It's not the same as saying "Hey, there's this cool site you should check out" this is more "Hey, can you help me to make this site cool?"

It's also notable that the OP themself barely uses this site at all. They joined shortly after I did, but only has 10 posts to their name only on two threads, this one and their sketchbook. They haven't posted anything for anyone else's benefit. No critique or comments for other people's work, practically no interaction with other users (sorry, I don't count "likes"). Which just makes it feel even more parasitic.

It looks to me like you're looking for a reason to think this is some sort of spam that's aimed to take advantage of people, especially since you have already made up your opinion on Reddit as a whole.

I don't use this site only because I've decided not to post my progress in a sketchbook after a few posts and I don't critique and comment on other people's work because I know I'm not experienced enough to say anything of value. This doesn't come into play with the subreddit since my main work there is to moderate it, post anything new that comes up (for which I set-up my feedly.com with sites that are worth tracking) and fill up the wiki with any valuable resources that I find. My own personal opinion doesn't really come into play with any of this.

And it's definitely not the case of "Hey, can you help me to make this site cool?", because I'm already filling up the wiki and posting articles. In theory, no one besides me would have to contribute anything to the site and I think it would still be worth checking out since it has all the news in one place and the wiki is already filled with great stuff to which I'll only be adding more and more. By myself if I have to.

You know, i wouldnt have said it that way, but Psychotime is probably right.
I'm not saying the OP had bad intentions in posting this, but it kinda feels a bit spamish for the reasons Psycho posted above.

Also, i recently joined reddit myself, and still dont get how that damn thing works.
Plus, i guess this is just my experience, but it seems to be full of excellent kind people AND haters, trolls, smartasses and bad people in general, no balance lol.

Yes, some subreddits are filled with "haters, trolls, smartasses and bad people in general" but only because the mods allow it. But there are a lot of subreddit that are worth checking like /r/Games, /r/books, /r/explainlikeimfive, /r/IAmA and a whole bunch of others. Subreddits are always what the users make it and what mods allow it to be. And I won't be allowing any bullshit, that's for sure.

The problem in your case is probably just as you said - you only joined recently and don't get how it works so you don't realize how much you can get out of it.