Herbie_Boy_Wonder

I am genuinely happy to hear this. I like many of his comments (and have received some myself, some I like some I roll my eyes) but I guess I’ll slowly try to get over that last part.

This is really disingenuous. I clarified (on multiple occasions) that I have nothing against him as a person, that he has an admirable collection and he clearly loves the art an the hobby. And judging Felix's post & picture in this thread, he's clearly a good person. Not too many people show up to wish people happy birthday with a cake, gifts and a positive spirit. However, he's not incapable of unfavorable behavior or free from criticism. No one person should be allowed to abuse a feature, appearing 10:1 against the entirety of the collecting community in comments on other user's art [in a self-admitted attempt to drive traffic to their own gallery]. Concern and disapproval of his behavior from other CAF users was what prompted my post to begin with. The only hate on my end was in relation (and only in relation) to the frequency of having to see his user icon below everyone else's art. When looking at art on the site, seeing anything as frequent as that feels akin to receiving spam. And yes, we clarified his comments aren't spam. There was plenty of nastiness and hatred from many others towards me, which (from what I could tell) resulted in no repercussions for anyone else, which is disappointing considering other behavior. Only a few were able to engage about the topic without being condescending or making it personal. So people like Felix will still make extreme stances rooted in sarcasm with no degree of nuance, and that's their right. It appears we will continue to use CAF as is, the world will go on, and I'll have to put up with seeing his user icon that links to his gallery on virtually all the new pieces I see posted.

GPA or completed sales on auction sites could give you a good idea.

this is what I see

phew!