I like this platform, and hope it succeeds, however I have a question for the community - what are everyone’s thoughts on creators? I am one, for transparency-sake, and I am pretty sure we are not wanted here, since most of us have Adventures/ Art / Battle maps / Patreons / Kickstarters / Products to sell, even though we frequently give a lot of stuff for free to the community. Thoughts?
I am making some assumptions based on some of your other answers, so please correct me if I am wrong.
I love independent creators, especially when they are generous enough to hand out some free content. It certainly wasn’t free to create! I would love to have engaged creators in any community.
However, it seems like you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what community engagement should look like. A bunch of posts talking about your products even with some freebies thrown in isn’t community engagement, it’s advertising.
A better way would be to respond to questions asking for recommendations with info about your products, while also disclosing that you are the author, or maybe even someone else’s product of that might be a better fit for their needs.
An even better way to engage is to respond to other people already recommending your products with a thanks and some links to your latest freebies or a note about a upcoming release/Kickstarter.
If you want to be a part of the community then be a part of it, don’t just view it as a marketing opportunity. The key is that you shouldn’t only be here to sell your stuff.