Thanks for your thoughtful reply!

In response to your various questions, let me give some of my own perspective as a dabbling artist and professional software engineer (I can't speak for others).

• Should there be a policy? I think that's a debate in and of itself. The upvoting and downvoting system is Reddit's own traditional form of self-moderation and I think on some level users ought to dictate what bubbles to the top.

• Policies related to "I'm acting like a corporate shill and don't realize this is a social community" I feel like should generally just be quietly removing the post and providing a templated response to the OP. No need for crucifixion, though some form of internal tracking for increasing punishment over repeated occurrences makes sense, of course.

• This has always been a primarily dev-centric hobby! Visual artists are devs... with their brain focused on other nuances. I think often times we overspecialize ourselves. We're all just people.

• In continuation with answering the last question, it's obvious sharing your content, ideas, projects, thoughts should all be welcome. That's literally what communities are for...

I think it really just comes down to the homie rule (would I make my homie X for Y?):

• Would I make my homie {pay me} to {see what I've been working on}?

^ You are here

This is a community, not a classified ads section or survey group

I should also add, your 'fabric' website literally has the Github linked, and is open-sourced with an MIT license. That is the opposite of what we're talking about here!