Please - Before you read the first paragraph and post a response without reading the rest, stop. If you're not an artist, meaning you have an empty gallery, or display pics of your cat or your truck, or have populated your gallery with stolen images, I'm not terribly interested in your strident opinion, especially about how the web is free and that's what you're all about. The web is free - which also means I'm free to block you when you start whining or carping. I know many of us fondly miss the DA we once knew, maybe 10-plus years ago. I think a lot of the blame gets put on the transition to Eclipse, and to the current complete lapse in moderation of the site for its decline. I would submit that the greatest factor of all in the depreciation of the community concept is attributable to the overall direction of the web itself, which is now dominated by trolls, single-issue-whiners, conspiracy-theorists and scam artists. Example: Facebook used to be a great way to keep up with