Hello admins, members, watchers and deviantart members that just happened to step by for a moment to view our group.
has been around for almost 3 years and now it is time to close submissions to this group.
The first 2 years were great. We got from 0 members to over 2000, developed our rules (which was quite troublesome for all of our admins and members) and had a great time.The last year though, you may have noticed that something was going wrong in this group. The last year we got another 1000 members and even though we have 4 admins, it is not easy to run a group this big.
I have seen many groups on deviantart that changed their settings to auto-accept all submissions at some point or just closed the group.
Never did I want to set our settings to auto-accept, as our group would have been flooded with stuff not related to monster designs if we liked it or not. Closing the group completely is also kind of strange because I have read that this could cause the group to ''really'' just disappear.... sad.

Some groups close for a month and then then try to come back with a newly arranged gallery and new motivation to run the group... sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. I don't want to do the same as even then the group would have almost 3000 members, so there won't be much of a difference. I also just don't have that much time right now, to arrange submissions frequently and instead of letting it stay like this, I think it is the best to just let this group rest and be glad that it has been around for quite a while.

I know by closing submissions to this group I will be able to stop worrying about the other admins not being able to handle submissions when I don't have the time. Many members will be glad they won't have to worry about our rules anymore (especially the quality rule, sorry guys) and at the same time everyone will still be able to view the group and look at the awesome submissions we got in the past 3 years.

But all those submissions wouldn't be in our group (and in the correct folders!) if we didn't have our amazing admins, that helped me out so much with this group in the past 3 years.
A big thanks to

who helped with submissions, the rules and everything else regarding the group.
I hope, even that last troublesome year you did not regret being an admin.

Maybe it would have been better to close the group sooner, so we would not even have to face this mess, but then some members may have asked, why the group will be closed if there is nothing wrong...

Also
Why did I not ask our admins or our members if they want me to close submission to the group.... ?
Simple.
I have founded this group and I have seen it falling apart. It's a fact that at some point a group just has to meet it's end and by giving the group to someone else, it may even get worse.
By ending it like this the group will at least look nice after submissions are closed.
There is a chance that I will create another group like this in the future. By starting a new group there will only be a few members and it will be easy to run the group like it has been with this one.

... with this Blog entry I say thank you everyone! for all your support all your submissions and your love that made our group this big.

Regards
founder
and admins
of 