Etsy has added two new forum categories: Critiques, where you can, “give and receive specific advice about your shop” and Techniques & Materials, where you can, “share and seek advice about creating items.” You can find out more about the changes in this Storque article.
According to the Storque article, some staffing changes are accompanying this new set-up. Daniellexo will oversee the forums as the “forum conductor”, and MaryMary will also now moderate the forums full-time. Robwhite will continue to keep an eye on the forums at night, while Stellaloella has been moved to “large-scale projects”.
edit Feb 19 by JB
The Storque article is closed to comments but the forum thread is still open for now.
EDIT by GreenMamba 2.24.08: FYI
Apparently, when the forum categories were updated, a change was also made to the forum link titled “Visit the Storque for Etsy News”, found in the upper right corner of the page, below “View topics you’ve posted in”. It now takes you directly to the News section of the Storque, rather than the Main Storque page. The ‘News’ link in the top grey nav bar, which appears on each Etsy page, still links to the Storque’s front page.
February 26th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
hey ya’ll,
long-time lurker, just signed up today
regarding my Peeps soaps–i was never able to get any info from Etsy about what the specific problem was nor were they willing to find out on my behalf. there may be legal issues that i don’t know about if they were to disclose this, but i don’t know.
I finally wrote to “the man in charge” at Just Born to have my questions answered–in an EXTREMELY prompt, courteous and informative manner. In all honesty, Iit didn’t occur to me that this could be an issue (duh), but I do realize that I made a mistake in using their name.
Regardless, when there is an *identical* Peeps Soap on Etsy that has been flagged by me and others numerous times and yet it remains, it does make me rather pissy.