active art accounts with no art on their profiles?

Something I have been aware of for the past few months: more and more deviant-art accounts seem to not have any deviations on their front pages.  My understanding is that you get to feature one by default, and also show your four most recent items as a group.  And if you have a core account, you can feature about ten specific items on your page (and the site doesn't think to remove them when your subscription expires.  I have not checked on this because I don't want the site to suddenly realize I am not supposed to be allowed to have that many anymore and I am certainly not buying a subscription!)

Another setup I see a increasingly is single front-page comments by the user, saying something to the effect of "reply HERE, and only here," usually with a bunch of hidden comments underneath.  The combined effect of these two is that the page loads quickly and in a small space, but conveys very little information.

Certainly I PREFER that to the myspace-style pages covered with flashy sparkly slow-loading trash, but I wonder why anyone would elect to not show at least one of their own art pieces.  Do you have any insight as to why that is or how it caught on?  When I saw that in the past, I always assumed that meant the user was no longer using the site, but had chosen not to delete anything.  Now I see it regularly on people who are here even more often than I am.