26 Sept 2019, 13:04

Even though being a member of the SVS subscription is not required to participate in the forum, I think that its link to SVS and to the teachers, Jake Parker, Will Terry, and Lee White, informs much of the character of the forum. Because they set a tone where learning and encouragement is foremost, contributors to the forum tend to follow that model as well, and when they don't -- when someone is brutal in a critique or arrogant in their opinion -- other forum members call them on it reminding them that we are all learners together. For me, the unspoken motto of this forum would be, "Being honest doesn't preclude being kind," which is a rather unique thing to find on the internet!