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Raccoonlady Member
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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 11:51 am Post subject: |
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[quote="SweetxinsanityxSarah"]True true...but the fact is it's better to be rid of them, then just sit around and let them take a huge dump on the forums.
Trust me...we were better off without that moronic idiot that kept ban dodging soo much that Denis had to step in. >> i'd sooner watch a Twilight Marathon then listen to his 'wisdom'[/quote]
I sat through a hole twilight movie. |
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SweetxinsanityxSarah Elder Than Dirt
Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 6829 Location: 20th Ward
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 11:13 am Post subject: |
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You poor thing ;-; _________________ Our life is made by the death of others...
~Leonardo Da Vinci |
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unfocused Moderator
Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 6983 Location: Texas
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 3:33 am Post subject: |
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I came across a few nice people on dA, and a few very entitled brats. It's easy to find the nice people, though.
Conclusion- it's not much different than my experience on FAC.
I did however find a small group of great friends here that, even after a decade, I still keep in touch with. I never found anything close to that on dA. _________________ "edit : i luv james" - Layzcarter |
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SweetxinsanityxSarah Elder Than Dirt
Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 6829 Location: 20th Ward
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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DA disappoints me with it's laziness to the point they have to make art alert groups to slap DA upside the head.
Like one guy who was in his fifties and did nothing but put up pictures of him yankin it. -diez inside-
And the new tag feature...SO FRIGGIN RETARDED! Dx it's DA not friggin twitter!
That's one thing I like about this site, it does not sell it's soul to the big cooperate companies and tries to compete with the social media pages..it's it's OWN art site. Like "yeah im here and im oldschool, deal with it that you cant hashtag biatches." <3
I met many idiots on DA which i stayed far away from (But kicked em off DA because no one wants to see self mutilation, yankin it, and troll death threats)
One group of clusterfookers that hate everyone but their art...i still think it's all one person.
But I have met some very good people on there as well. One's a spunky Tokyo ghoul fan, another is a group of ask artists that are very sweet and know how to make amazing MMD editing, and another knows her way around rigging a model or two and is a big grimmjow fangirl. And of course a few epic castlevania nerds here and there. x3
One though I met..he's somewhat a friend...but he's killed Vocaloid for me. He flipped out at the fact I didnt like his one slutty dark horse miku video (I'm a chick, im not interested in seeing a close up cam of her taco!) but I put him in his place very quickly. Still he seems distant nowadays which pisses me off. Oh sure, he's allowed to make fun of the stuff I LIKE yet I cant say a damn friggin thing about his precious lil vocaloid fetish?! Ugh...
Not to mention his 'love' of gays and lesbians..yeah I have to keep my mouth shut very tightly when he rants about them. He's just lucky he is not around my bi or gay friends...they'd put him through the grinder.
There is a few good people I know here...but one that stands above the rest here that I keep in touch with the most is Lackadaisydragon. Guys an epic wit and will keep you laughing for hours, and his intellect is quite amazing too.
Setz, velasgirl, lucky, and ami are a few other good chaps on here too of course. n.n (kaden you dont count as meeting on here, I met you on yahoo chat..when it still existed! xD)
(Hey setz, gimmie your FB name NAOOOO.) _________________ Our life is made by the death of others...
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Firiel Has No Life
Joined: 13 Feb 2012 Posts: 620
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Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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DA has its ups and downs. I know there is a lot of crap there, and that they are pretty corporate, but I like the response times for faves/comments on some of the stuff I've posted up, and the number of interest groups available to join... Pretty much every fandom or medium you can think of has at least one club that users can join to hang out with folks who like the same stuff. It can be a messy and overwhelming place, and maybe I only still enjoy it because I haven't offended any of the wrong people yet, but it can be useful in its place. What we've got here, though - a friendly community where everybody has a chance to get to know everybody if they wanted to, and where there aren't random banner ads and popups and crap running wild - there's got to be a way to feed more attention into that kind of site, keep it healthy, while coexisting with the more fast-paced monster edition of art website. |
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TeeJay87 Very bored
Joined: 24 Jun 2014 Posts: 193
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Firiel Has No Life
Joined: 13 Feb 2012 Posts: 620
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2016 7:10 am Post subject: |
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Mm. I'll buy that DA is having it rough - they've started specifically putting up a pop-up notice to ask you to turn off your ad-block because They Need The Money. I'll also buy that alternatives would be nice, and so would a change in management, if we want to see things look up. But I'm not so much interested in the recommendation for an alternative place to move the poster in question was suggesting - seems pretty political, and that's not my scene. I just want to be able to chill and enjoy my fandom stuff on art sites... get too much of online political soapboxes as it is. |
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K_Pepper Very bored
Joined: 08 Jul 2011 Posts: 156 Location: Here
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2016 10:07 am Post subject: |
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Honestly, the rampant DA hatred on this site is part of what chased me off.
What people don't seem to realize is that, though technically there are more jerks on DA, there are technically more awesome people, too. You can't look at numbers; you look at percentages. There are so many people on that site, of course there's going to be more negative if you look for it.
And yet, in the course of two months, I've put together a fan community for a little-known and under-appreciated fandom that nobody on this site has ever even heard of. If you take the time, it's so easy to reach out and make friends with people with common interests, and it's so easy to just avoid talking to the asshats.
Sad to say, but this site doesn't offer much of that to me. I don't have trouble with people on DA because I have the good sense not to cause or join in drama- and there has certainly been drama on FAC, too. It's taken care of more quickly because there is so little posted here in one day, it's easier to keep up with.
As for DA's plea for people to turn off adblocker on their site, I'll do THAT when their adds stop trying to send malware to my computer. T_T Seriously, don't ever go to DA without active virus protection. That's the site's biggest failing, IMHO.
Also, Firiel, what's your name on DA? I'd like to add you there. :3 |
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Firiel Has No Life
Joined: 13 Feb 2012 Posts: 620
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2016 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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Dude, I didn't even know their ads were malware-bait. I just find them visually obnoxious and they seem to slow down my computer extra if I'm multitasking in some way, such as listening to music while I update myself on art. 0.o
Firiel-archer. And thanks! ^_^ |
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K_Pepper Very bored
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2016 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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If I leave them on, AVAST is screaming every five minutes that something malicious is trying to download. :x |
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Stratadrake Elder Than Dirt
Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 13710 Location: Moo
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2016 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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I encountered one of those redirect-ads on dA while browsing one of the journals related to this post.
If dA is succumbing to corporatism, that's a shame. _________________ Strata here: [url=http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/242293]Nanowrimo[/url] - [url=www.fanart-central.net/user-Stratadrake.php]FAC[/url] - [url=http://stratadrake.deviantart.com]dA[/url] - [url=www.furaffinity.net/user/Stratadrake/]FA[/url]
[size=9]Disclaimer: Posts may contain URLs. Click [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife]at your own risk.[/url][/size] |
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AlcyoneSong Newb
Joined: 15 Jun 2016 Posts: 13 Location: Mercia
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2016 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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I actually came here from DA..
DeviantART isn't bad if you are a subscriber, but their latest trick of posting a big obnoxious request to turn off ad-blockers is pushing it for non-subscribers.
People have resorted to using ad-blockers because DA won't check out the advertisers, and the ads that have been showing up are large pop up windows that have hidden or small close buttons, or ones that have been corrupted by viruses.
Furthermore, DA fired about half of their staff, and the CEO decided to post a status update about having a beer at an expensive hotel downtown in LA. Inappropriate much? This isn't the first time DA admins and the CEO has done something like this. I know it won't be the last, but for now I'm officially looking for somewhere else besides my Tumblr to post my art. I don't feel like supporting a company that has so little regard for their staff or has such a callous CEO who is oblivious to the problems going on because he is blinded by his ego.
@ KPepper
I agree with you that DA has gotten so large as a community it is easier to connect to people who like little known fandoms. I run a "group" for fans of Johan and Peewit from the Smurfs and from the older Belgium comics of the same name.
I don't hate DA as much as I am disappointed in how it is being run. I love DeviantART it is a fantastic site where artists can meet and share ideas, it was at one time a sort of middle man that enabled artists to share portfolio ideas and even showcase their work to large corporations like Dreamworks and Disney if they could not make Portfolio days at ComicCon San Diego.
DA has done so much good for the independent artist and student, and it is very discouraging to see that it has dropped the ball and is not doing a good job with quality control. Although, in hindsight, this has been an ongoing problem with DA from the beginning. They've gotten better, but I think it's an exponential problem that grows because the user base has grown.
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K_Pepper Very bored
Joined: 08 Jul 2011 Posts: 156 Location: Here
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2016 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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It is a shame that Sheezy closed down. I enjoyed that community. It was a nice option for those who weren't crazy about DA.
I am a non-subscriber to DA, and I'm still okay with it, though that popup is a little annoying, and I doubt it's going to make anyone turn off their add-blocker anyway. |
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AlcyoneSong Newb
Joined: 15 Jun 2016 Posts: 13 Location: Mercia
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2016 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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I was part of Sheezy art, but I didn't like the layout and upload interface. It wasn't very user friendly IMHO. |
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K_Pepper Very bored
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2016 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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It wasn't so much, but the community was nice, and the fact that it had groups a clubs was a nice bonus. |
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SweetxinsanityxSarah Elder Than Dirt
Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 6829 Location: 20th Ward
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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 11:45 am Post subject: |
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I'm still abit disappointed in how long it takes them to reply to threats users are making against each other and 'what they would do to this user' etc. -eyeroll-
other than that, i am learning to forgive DA slowly. Just needs to pick up it's pace abit with handling the raging lunatics with a crazy bloodlust that rival's sasuke's when he's approaching danzo. _________________ Our life is made by the death of others...
~Leonardo Da Vinci |
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K_Pepper Very bored
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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, DA can be pretty slow sometimes- I submitted a request to close a club of mine like a week ago and still haven't gotten the response, and that's just a routine thing.
As for threats and reports, in the past I haven't had too much trouble with the amount of time it takes them, but they don't always deal with it well. Problem with having a site that big, I guess. |
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SweetxinsanityxSarah Elder Than Dirt
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 8:42 am Post subject: |
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We need to put battou and strata in charge of 'idiot control' over there..they'd get the job done x3 _________________ Our life is made by the death of others...
~Leonardo Da Vinci |
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K_Pepper Very bored
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 8:46 am Post subject: |
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Is Battou even still around? I haven't seen a trace of him in years. |
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SweetxinsanityxSarah Elder Than Dirt
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 8:47 am Post subject: |
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yea i was wondering that myself. Hope he's doing ok. _________________ Our life is made by the death of others...
~Leonardo Da Vinci |
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