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Why do some artist rank higher than others?

The artist list rank is based on three factors. Points, visitors, Loging in,

Points = Ranking

The primary factor is your art-fine-gallery points, these points are awarded for helping the site.

You get 1 point for joining the gallery and filling out at least 200 words about yourself, and 1 point for the first time you add art to the gallery. You get a point for your first forum post, and a point for each rank in the forum. You get points for writing good articles. donating funds, getting links to the site and receiving high karma scores from fellow artists.

Visitors

The second ranking factor is the number of page views you have had.

Logging in

Finally if all else is equal, artists who log in often rank higher than those that don't

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Artist Administrator

Best way to contact us is to go to the administrators page. (linked at the top of this articale) and send the admin an email.

Or you can visit my page Samuel Durkin and send me an email via there.

or you can phone me (+44) 02380512951

or write to me

29 Albany Road
Southampton
Hampshire
UK

If you have a question about buying any artwork you should contact the artist directly (visit their profile page) as we do not deal with their sales.

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Artist Written Articles

The Arts-fine-gallery Site, was set up by the artist Samuel Durkin. The project is for it to be artist driven. For artists to come together to promote themselves, and in doing so promote each other. As well as displaying artwork. Artists are able to write helpful and interesting articles. each article links to the authors own page. Writing an article that gives useful information about art gives a reason for people to visit the site, and promotes the artist who wrote it.

How to guides, Art histories, Biographies, and Art show and exhibition and Artist reviews.

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Posting on Forums and Articles.

• While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters.
• Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.
• Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.
• Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum, email, visitor messages, blog comments, picture comments and private message systems to spam other members.
• Please wait a reasonable amount of time before bumping posts. For style changes and general 'how-to' questions this should be 24 hours. For specific troubleshooting issues, use 12 hours as a guideline.
• We also do not allow posts or links to sites that are sexual in nature or violate our community standards. Arts-fine-gallery shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.
• Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed.
• Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
• While we are quite happy to have constructive comparative conversations about competitor's products, we will not tolerate blatant adverts threads. Also, we would appreciate it if you refrain from blatant bashing of other sites.
• We reserve the right to remove offensive posts and pictures without notice.
• If you are going to post non-English on the site, please also post an English Translation of your post.
• Posts arguing about the site policies are not allowed. You can contact the site admin about policies.
• Posts discussing moderators actions are also not allowed.
• Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure the site is not disrupted or abused in any way.
• You cannot post any affiliate or referral links, or post anything asking for a referral. Such posts will be subject to removal.
• You cannot post advertisements or notices for contests for a third party without permission.
• All post must be made in English
• Private Discussion with arts-fine-gallery moderators should be considered to be confidential information.
• We also reserve the right to ban anyone who wilfully violates the arts-fine-gallery rules, as access to our site is a privilege and not a right.
• Articles are reviewed before submission. if they fail to meet a required standard they will not be published.

Picture policy

• Nudes are allowed, but only those considered safe for a public art gallery. They must not be sexual or designed to arouse or titillate, they must not show graphic depiction of any sexual act or genitalia. Moderators judgement is final in these matters, and if we feel the picture lowers the tone of the site, it gets removed.
• No overtly political, nationalist, religious or partisan imagery that shows an obvious bias toward or against one ideology, group, country or movement.
• No images depicting torture, rape or any other illegal activities.
• No images that would be considered inflammatory or derogatory toward one social group, ideology or movement.
• No derivative artwork, using stock images or copyright material, the work must be your own. Work based on another piece of art work, must be significantly different from the original so that no suggestion of copyright theft.
• Artwork that does not meet the high standards of arts-fine-gallery will be removed.

Sales

• Artist are solely responsible for dealing with any customers who contact them, and any sales that may arise from such communications. Payments, postage and all other matters should be dealt with between the customer and the artist. Arts-fine-gallery.co.uk takes no responsibility for sales generated via the site.

Professionalism, Quality and Bad Karma

Any artist who is seen to act unprofessionally, whose art work is seen to fall below the required standard, or whose karma (other artists votes) falls too far they will be removed from the site.

Finally.

Offer a good service, be friendly to potential customers, and help the site.