I always remember Shadowness as something more like "the elite of the elite". I'm not sure if this is even right but I think that you used to need to apply to get a page on there or to have your work shown on the site. Of course, dA has just been open to everyone.
Even now, Shadowness tends to have a higher mean quality of submissions.

But Pat, what is this that you hint at. You must tell us.

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