Hi folks, I thought I'll drop another post. Something more of the collab side. Now, I've never have done any work for collabs despite my activity on the boards and signing up (but quickly backing out), so I will be happy to explain why! I'm not getting any younger, I've done group work elsewhere, on another website, as well as experiences during university and sometimes in the workplace, in the creative field of course, so I'm happy to explain what I don't like, what to avoid and why I don't take part in collabs.

Not to say that I don't like the collabs. I do think they are great and good for the works who successfully put a collab here, to kudos to you lot who've successfully been on a project and had it posted here with good scores. 

I'm not getting any younger. I'm really not, so I'm not in the mood to hide that. Firstly, Discord, I dislike the idea that users are coming on here or anyone to get users onto their discord to do the work. I don't see the idea how that helps to get the work being produced. Funnily enough, from what I'm seeing I think the website staff here prefers that, for various reasons, so I can't really complain as much about that, seeing how that seems to work around here. 

Myself, personally, I avoid Discord. It's usually because there's usually workloads that get created but don't get fulfilled, unfortunately for all the other users are left with the workloads and haven't got a clue or aren't given direction to quietly fulfill it. That's usually project managers job to do that. 

A good example being one project (not saying which one) placing signage that they don't want any animatic in their final work and they ended up including it anyways. What they could have done is that the trick is and I haven't seen anyone do this, they could have done this, is get whoever was willing to volunteer, put that energy into that work. Not as much and it will have a different style to it yet would look like someone else's work and at least the entire animation would be fulfilling. People notice that and please don't sit and think that no one goes after project manager to not question their ablities when they see it. Someone will. (not me, someone else). There are people like that in the world.  

Places like that, like the Discord, since I've been around there for years on end at one point, those users who like to turn up and just sign on and don't do anything, THEY ALWAYS RETURN! Get their usernames or an ID (or profile) and make sure you blacklist them! That's the only reason they sign to projects in the first place! I do this one another website, not saying which one but some people LOVE to get blocked sometimes. That's my experience and I don't care. Maybe myself, I'm a different person but that's usually why I'm wary signing up to collabs or going into a Discord.

I've signed up to two collabs, none of which I've done any work for. The last collab I had signed up off, is just another story, deserves another post in itself but myself, because I signed up to two and just happens that I couldn't fulfil both because . Maybe I am getting to old for this but at the same time, it's stretotypicial if project manager think that I should be "pulling my weight" or they have this high expectation from me because of it.

I understand that even at my age, I have to be a good follower but still, not willing to find out and have all that time and even seeing how they blame users for "leaving the project" and not think that they weren't doing much themselves? I mean come on!? They also expect feedback yet also want it done in a professional manner, when I start typing like this?! I mean come on!

and it's not myself cherry-picking the situation and find a situation is for me. I think the idea behind Discord, it's either people should be confident using their Discords and being productive. I know the mindless mentality isn't pleasant when doing work and for other people, but it does get its results. That passion for making content, even putting someone else name on it, gets you out of a lot of issues. Hardly comes by but it's worth it and no one would know. You get the credit for managing projects successfully, not them if people sign up and barely do anything. I hope this helps. It takes some time and patience.