Hello all,
I've been thinking about this all day, since it is really quite a wonderful idea. I like that everyone works together to improve and build a strong community of strong creators.
My problem is similar to what many of you mentioned before. It is very hard to utilize, requires a lot of time from the mentor and from whomever is organizing it.
I would like to go back to the original post with the base idea (mainly because all of you guys are so darn quick and I can't read all 55 posts o.o).
Feedback & Advice
As Punkarsenic already mentioned, we do cover this point in the forums already. There are plenty threads that ask for feedback and usually, helpful answers are given. Yes, not every answer is from a creator with 30.000 subscribers, but that does not make that any answer less helpful or correct.
In a way, here in the forums we are all mentors and we are all trainees.
With that in mind, here is what this idea really boils down to:
Shoutouts
Basically, a more successful creator advertises another creator they like and trust. Maybe they even work together on a little project.
Now, here's the thing. Many creators already do that. Twitter shoutouts and retweets are one of the most common way creators support each other. It has nothing to do with one person being more successful than the other, it has all to do with networking, knowing the creator and really, REALLY liking their work.
I would never give a shoutout to someone that I don't believe in (artistically or otherwise) - because my readers would lose trust in my taste if my recommendations are crap. And I know for a fact that I am not alone with this.
With all of that in mind, we still want to promote shoutouts on tapas. Ok, how do we do that?
We actually did start an effort quite some time ago with the Creator Recommendations (https://forums.tapas.io/t/introducing-creator-recommendations/15386/36). It didn't go anywhere. Why? I could not dedicate the time to keep this project running, remind people, collect feedback, have personal discussions with creators, connect creators... basically, for a project like this you need someone who can dedicate 1 to 2 hours of time every day just to run it.
So is this project possible?
Yes, absolutely. I totally believe in it. But someone has to run it, has to master networking within this community, has to be ON it over a long period of time. It's a difficult task and a lot to ask of someone and if we would have someone in our community who wants to take over this responsibility, great. I am sure us moderators would try to support those kinds of efforts however we can.
Without such a person however, I don't think this can realistically work.