mcDuffies wrote:
As I see their situation, they have to keep exclusivity of keenspot by keeping number of comics around 50, and if they spotted every comic on keen that deserves it, they'd certqainly overcrowd it and you'd get a few hundreds of comics of main page of spot - thus promotional system of spot looses efficiency.
To be honest, if they would treat their producing Space comics with a little more dignity and respect there wouldn't really be a need to leave for Spot or Modern Tales.
Give us equal access to mechandising. Give us the same promotional tools. Give us a share of the profits equal to the share of the profits the spotters get. Give us the same reliable hosting.
Spot can be as exclusive as it wants to be just treat those of us on Space who are producing results
despite the fact we're stuck on Space the same way you treat your Spotters.
Is it really so shocking that popular Spacers would want to leave when comics who are pulling in fewer readers on Spot are being fawned over by Keen. Treat us all the same based on our merits and I could give two shits who is on Space and who is on Keen.
As for LWIBH, as Crosby said, and problematic graphic in it is very stylised to the point where it's not so problematic anymore. LWIBH is very poor comic but it stays there as some kind of monument of old webcomics from the time when we didn't even know webcomics exist. For that, I would vote it on spot if asked.
And bringing up LWIBH as issue every time we mention spotting SL is like asking "Why not" every time someone asks "Why".
No when the issue is "Sexy Losers might offend too many people because it's pornography" then bringing up LWIBH is a very valid argument. Crosby et al have yet to provide a good answer on that one. Shit, bringing up "Sore Thumbs" is a very valid argument. Chris's new comic gets greenlighted for Spot when it's nature is designed to piss off about 50% of the American population. The conservative right that Crosby is so worried about offending with adult humour comics doesn't seem to be an issue when it comes to left leaning political comics. [/quote]
But as for Chris, Gav, and the rest of fab four, they have yet to do something I wouldn't justify with incompetence. And incompetence is not a sin here
Incompitence is one thing, and it is forgivable to a certain extent, however what we see happening here is downright willful ignorance. They know what the problem is, they know what to do about it. They're sticking their fingers in their ears and singing "lalalalalaaaa I can't hear you" in hopes that by ignoring the problem it will somehow magically go away on it's own.
They've been maintianing for over a year that maybe, sometime, possibly, in the future they'll examine the likelyhood of perhaps doing something to improve the situation yet there is absolutely no outward evidence that Keen intends to do anything but maintain the status quo.
Seriously, is it any wonder MT is swallowing up the Keenspace talent pool, especially since Keen is reluctant to admit any talent lies there to begin with.
Believe me, my voice of dissention has nothing to do with Keen-bashing. I'm fiercely loyal to Space. If I wasn't I would have gone indie long ago. It's not like I haven't had enough pressure to leave.
Perhaps it's a result of being Canadian, we're a country of complainers. We don't have the same "Love it or leave it" attitudes that tend to prevail south of the border. We don't have this "For us or with them" mindset. We constantly bitch and moan and push our governing officials to improve our country. What I do on Space is no different from what I do with my MP and MPP. When I see something wrong I bitch about it to them, and I encourage others who are likewise dismayed to bitch about it too.
I think that's what pisses me off when people like T. Campbell write about the "disloyalty of Keenspacers". If I want to see Space become something better than it is the most disloyal thing I could do would be to remain silent over its problems and negative issues, or even worse to pack up and leave. As long as I have hope that change will come I can still stay on Space.
If you consider Modern Tales the 'stamp of goodness' on a comic necessary, then he's has that too. MT has his other series already.
