Posting a blog on front page

[Legzl]

Sorry for the noob question, but how is it done? Is there a checkbox? Do you have to be a certain level?

[Sispri]

At 12/1/07 10:26 PM, Legzl wrote: Sorry for the noob question, but how is it done? Is there a checkbox? Do you have to be a certain level?

TomFulp:
The front page artist news has also been changed; the bar for access has been raised. We always intended to have tighter restrictions on who could post here, but decided to see what would happen if we let ALL the artists post. The result was a lot of spam and abuse (surprise surprise!) and when serious artists actually posted something important, it got knocked off the front page within hours or less. Now, artist news remains on the front page for more than a full day - making this space much more valuable to the artists who have access to it. Anyone can get access, you just need to submit enough good stuff for P-Bot or A-Bot to grant you access. Everyone else gets to be showcased here.

To the artists who still have front page access: Make good use of this opportunity! Write things that people will enjoy reading. If users expect to find crap in the artist news box, they won't check it out and the box will get scrapped. It's up to all of you to represent that space well. If you want to tell people you are working on a new project, include details about the process and the obstacles you are facing, or the inspiration behind it all! Dig deep. I don't mean to sound like a school teacher, but the better you represent that space, the more powerful that space will become for everyone. Half a million people pass through the front page every day and they could be reading about your latest work!