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jeez louise...
OK, slight background for those of you who don't haunt DeviantArt. Like many of the artists on DA, I do kiribans, which comes from the Japanese word for 'lucky number,' IIRC, and what that means is that I pick a number, and whoever hits that number of pageviews on my DA userpage counter can request a picture from me.
So. My current kiriban is 5555, and the previous was 4224. I set it that high because I've got 3 or 4 kiribans requested that I haven't had a chance to work on yet, due to A-Kon preparations. A couple of days ago, I find this massage on my DA userpage comments list:
" wooooooooooo I am your 5000th hit! I WANNA KIRIBAN FOR IT and if u dont gimme I'm gonna haunt you forever [little dancing emoticon]" plus a link to a screenshot proving the 5000.
Fine. I ignore this for a bit, then decide that I'll tell the person that I'll treat it as a request -- I've got a small list of possible requests from people that I don't guarantee I'll do, just so I can have a list of things to draw when I get stuck for subject matter. If you want me to guarantee you something, you've got to hit a kiriban I've set or pay me $$. So I'm about to go bop off a message to her to tell her that when I get this message from her:
" where my kiriban?! [crying emoticon repeated several times]"
Like hell I want to give her anything now. Which is sort of bad, because I put her on my watch list because I liked her art, but this is a sort of behavior I'd really rather not reward. So I've replied to her with "Demanding a kiriban when I haven't set one for that number is a sure way to annoy me. Politely asking would have had better results."
The bitch of it all is that if she *had* asked me politely, or if she'd made it clear that she was joking, I probably would have been happy to promise her one. *sheesh* Well, if she figures out that she's been rather annoying and apologizes for it, I'll be willing to put a request of hers on my no-guarantees list, because I *do* like to reward graceful apologies. Lord knows there ain't enough of them out there.
So. My current kiriban is 5555, and the previous was 4224. I set it that high because I've got 3 or 4 kiribans requested that I haven't had a chance to work on yet, due to A-Kon preparations. A couple of days ago, I find this massage on my DA userpage comments list:
" wooooooooooo I am your 5000th hit! I WANNA KIRIBAN FOR IT and if u dont gimme I'm gonna haunt you forever [little dancing emoticon]" plus a link to a screenshot proving the 5000.
Fine. I ignore this for a bit, then decide that I'll tell the person that I'll treat it as a request -- I've got a small list of possible requests from people that I don't guarantee I'll do, just so I can have a list of things to draw when I get stuck for subject matter. If you want me to guarantee you something, you've got to hit a kiriban I've set or pay me $$. So I'm about to go bop off a message to her to tell her that when I get this message from her:
" where my kiriban?! [crying emoticon repeated several times]"
Like hell I want to give her anything now. Which is sort of bad, because I put her on my watch list because I liked her art, but this is a sort of behavior I'd really rather not reward. So I've replied to her with "Demanding a kiriban when I haven't set one for that number is a sure way to annoy me. Politely asking would have had better results."
The bitch of it all is that if she *had* asked me politely, or if she'd made it clear that she was joking, I probably would have been happy to promise her one. *sheesh* Well, if she figures out that she's been rather annoying and apologizes for it, I'll be willing to put a request of hers on my no-guarantees list, because I *do* like to reward graceful apologies. Lord knows there ain't enough of them out there.
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Now if only they would *commission* art from me...
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