Well my first experience under the new ownership was that they deleted my comment
( first time ever on TTGN) I think the only posts anyone ever erased me in more than a decade was on the old rackham forums for the obvious reasons
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So yes the old TTGN were we could just chat is errr gone..
Mahon they may have the all the money in the world but I would rather see TGN sold to a bunch of people who have no economic agenda in this industry...
CMON degenerated from a VERY nice painting community to what we see today, tutorial videos got the softporn covers with little content, painting comps got the golden brush hunt for the money, confrontation got the cheesy nonsense cash in boxes, galleries got used for making annual books to be sold, and TTGN just lost its independence and god knows what they will turn it into... so yes money is not everything here ( by the contrary).
I dont mind most of those things cmon does today because everything must be put in perspective and I'm forever thankful about all those years that CMON was a great place to motivate painters, the cmon store that has a good selection, cmon activities etc... If i had to make a balance sheet the pros do surpass the cons...
But I strongly believe TGN should have ended in other hands because I'm a strong believer that monopolies are not in our best interest.
So yes they will be busy erasing some posts in the future
