@Cyberia-Mix: > Arrei said: > I question this. > > Why,...

Cyberia-Mix
2011-02-04T16:17:35-05:00

Arrei said:
I question this.

Why, exactly? Because you might get bored of an artist? Who it's made by, and how often they draw in that style does not diminish the content of any individual image, does it? It can be argued that not every picture by that artist deserves adding to the pool, but I see no reasonable basis on which to say that you should restrict images by artist.

unicogirl incidentally summed it up very nicely just now in forum #55705:

unicogirl said:
If certain artist/s works are dominating the pool, then what purpose is having half their work in it? By that point it is easier to just track your favorite artist/s on your profile. The same goes for certain tags that will constantly bring up the same image with not much change.

Anyway I should have been more accurate and added "when similar".

I don't think subjective pools should and can have the same role as tags.
Tags are factual information where subjective pools are X individuals opinion over a picture. If it's been acknowledged that some image by yanagi was good enough for pool #903 I don't think it needs to be stated for each other similar picture of the artist, because doing so is just repeating the same claim and we already got the message.
If you hnnngggged at that yanagi picture, chances are you'll do on the others, therefore you'll want to click the artist tag and maybe suscribe. And that's all we need.
If you didn't like it, you probably don't want to find more pictures by the artist further in the pool.

This would greatly help to reduce the size and make browsing significantly easier.
I used to follow that pool when it started, but when it reached 30 pages from eating everything it already wasn't possible anymore.

Restricting to one post per artist isn't really possible most of time, shouldn't have said that. There's too much range in what they have in the pool.
Restricting to similar images is possible however. Some people might still want to fight about to what extent posts can be considered similar, so in addition, artists could have an agreed limit of 5 posts in the pool (whatever, even 10 posts would still help). After that, even if they're not the 5 or 10 ones you'd have wanted you just let go because the limit is reached.
Different facets of an artist's work, preferably different characters, and the usual sanctions for people who care too much about who added what.
In case a new post by whatever artist is so good that you want to replace an old one then just do so. Rotation is better because it gives spotlight. I've always thought subjective pools ought to be gardened anyway.