i believe you can, its called good ux design and communication of concepts. you don't need to push rules down people's throats if it is the options available, presented well enough that they get it, then they will take the appropriate path. given appropriate structure i believe most people will conform appropriately and…
It doesn't matter how many lower quality or less skilled artists post to Artstation, it will never become like deviantART purely for the fact that on deviantART, the userbase always actively "likes" lower quality art that gets pushed to the front page because that's the kind of art that userbase is looking for. That stuff…
Non-indie web is hostile, but extremely useful. I think it's a good idea to have an Artstation for portfolio content, and a blog for basically everything else that gets shared with a non-industry audience. It kinda just makes more sense to me. People worry about how hard it is to broadcast updates on self-hosted or indie…