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Mr. Mattelson --
Congratulations on your acknowledgment at the recent portrait artist conference, and a great pleasure to read your contribution -- please get as addicted to it as some of us have become. The membership on the site -- folks extremely eager for your caliber of advices -- has now doubled in a very short time, but I suspect that hundreds, thousands, likely tens of thousands more are tapping into the well anonymously and printing out lots of postings.
It's a bit of a rub that you encountered the Maroger thread first, because that was probably the worst example of anything that's ever happened here -- by rule of order an extraordinarily civil, decent, informative home -- but the lapse was rather deliberately engineered, I believe, by the provocateur, who I hope has by his behaviour become an uninvited and quickly -- perhaps unprecedentedly so -- unrespected guest here and self-defrocked expert "contributor" to a civil and informed forum.
Please wander around SOG's topics, especially the critiques and topic headings for courses offered by you. You won't be reminded of any other website you've visited, save in occasional lapse that is inevitable and has become, particularly in the one instance you referred to, nefariously and legendarily sourced and predicted, and others, aberrations. Differences in procedure and protocol are accepted almost universally -- indeed usually eagerly -- here. Speaking only for myself, of course, your brand of tolerance, interest, professionalism, and eagerness to investigate all procedures and protocols is very welcome.
Cheers
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