Etsy Upsets

Ooooh, miao! I've been spending a lot of time in the Etsy forums lately; there's a lot going on in 'Life', (as I like to call it), so I convinced myself that I had no time to do crafty-etsian things per say, and instead should spend my cupla spare minutes seeing what the rest of the Etsy world was up to...5 hours later and it's half past midnight, sucker! It's an education certainly, but not in quite the way I was expecting...
Actually, quite a few people seem to be getting their handcrafted knickers in a twist about one thing or another - I gather that things are usually pretty slow in January, and it seems to be getting to people; it seems to be an Etsy madness akin to Cabin Fever: Forum Fever!!! They even have a phrase for when it all starts to degenerate - a "train wreck" thread - I can't tell you my bemusement when I first saw people begin to post "choo choo" randomly! All in good fun though :)

Etsy FREE FOR ALL!!!!!!!

Yes, Congratulations indeed! 'Cos I got such a buzz from my Etsy shop being VIEWED, WOOP!!!, I was desperate to actually sell something...and since I have neither time or patience to wait until I produce something worth buying I have announced on my Etsy shop Banner that all day tomorrow I will be willing to 'sell' anything I have listed in exchange for nothing but a little constructive criticism and feedback!!!
We'll see if I'm still congratulating myself if it turns out I quite literally can't give them away, but it's all about the education, I'm sure...
Also interesting though, the distribution of the views: could it be that the newer cards - my decided 'design', having dumped the woven-paper idea - all look similar and PALE when viewed side by side in the list, whereas the older ones, the woven-paper prototypes, look bright red in contrast (the colour of the card) and though the most amateurish of them all in my opinion are therefore getting more views than some of the others. Hm - food for thought.