It's been awhile since I've blogged anything so here goes.

In the past I've tried to make a statement on the eligibility of membership here at Big-Muscles Group. Comparative to other groups who force new members to submit points, submit artwork or have their galleries scrutinized by the contributors I've decided to follow suit with our own requirements for membership - current and future:

1. You must be an active member of Deviant Art meaning you must make artwork of some sort that is conducive to the theme of our group. (i.e. muscle photos, muscle morphs, muscle toys, muscle drawings) and it must be actually in your current gallery.

2. You must be willing to submit your own artwork to the galleries or at least accept the request when made upon you to include your artwork in our galleries. Many people think it's my job or the contributors job to ask them to add their artwork to our group. It's not. It's actually yours.

Wow, that's it. That's it. I'm not asking much other than I would like you to participate to the success of our group.

Let's chat about Members vs. Watchers. The above refers to Members NOT Watchers. A watcher is anyone who wants to watch our group - it's artwork, etc. They do not have to have any artwork, they don't need to have any friends, they don't even need to ask to be a watcher - they just show up - enjoy the show and move along. More power to ya!

I have dropped over 100 "members" in the past two weeks. 85% aren't even here at Deviant Art any longer, and the other 15% either don't have artwork, they don't draw muscle, or they simply refuse to add their muscle art to the galleries. These people have no intention of contributing so why keep 'em hanging around when most of them are gone anyways? I don't see a purpose.

So let's sum it all up.

*Make muscle art - join - post - beers all around.
*Don't do anything - watch - beers all around.
*Request to join - don't do anything - no thank you - please just watch
*Currently a member - don't do anything - don't know how you snuck in - good bye.

Note:_{We had a previous argument about these rules and people got upset and left. Keep in mind this is my group, this is how we do things here and it works. If you feel a necessity to complain or rant about my decision making process have the maturity to note me about it instead. No amount of drama will change these rules.}