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devart deleting my legitimate art citing "Una

Wed Aug 22, 2007, 2:47 PM
Today I received the first message I have ever received from ^devart:

"Unaddressed Requirement: Vindaeshi from ^devart Aug 21, 2007" was the subject, and it notified me that a piece of art I have had for years on deviantART was deleted because a requirement was not addressed.

WHAT requirement pray tell? Apparently your art, my art, everyone's art that has been a favorite of the community for years can just be deleted at a whim citing nothing but a vague reference to an unaddressed requirement... and the requirement is not even made known to the victim. Outrageous.

I've sent a note to the administrators and await a response.

To you reading this... I hope this has not happened to you. All us senior members have seen this place deteriorate over the last 4 years and for me this may just culminate it.

Fortunately, I have more experience and skills than all the administration here combined and this may just be a sign to pull my art and create my own art community bringing with me many of my artist friends from here. There we will worship true art, without the politics.

  • Mood: Anger

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:iconartlmntl:
I hope you will have successful resolution of this matter.
:icontraelium:
gideon for president!! =D

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:iconh3llb0und:
Yeah some things on this site seem to be the result of heavily stoned penguins runing around without their pants on.

How can you remove someone's artwork and send a message about it, and not even bother to let the artist know why ? Oh right, this is deviant art... :D

Stuff like this is probably just a tip of the iceberg. Well good luck getting an explanation.

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:iconattila:
I've seen this coming and you're not alone in being disgusted by it. deviantART has so haphazardly automated many of the functions we as staff handled personally for so long, that a lot of the finesse and attention to detail that once existed for handling certain issues are overlooked. Even in an automated system like this so-called "policy enforcement" should be planned in such a way that leaves a user fully understanding of what has happened. Least of all, the exact reason why a piece of artwork was deleted. People have been complaining about this (myself included) for years and nothing has been done about it.

Whatever happened to warning a user before punitive action is taken... allowing them time to remedy the situation the best way they see fit. To me, that would be the ideal way to handle situations like this. God, reading your journal just makes my head hurt. To think deviantART is now 7 years old and still is not operating on par with its users expectations.

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:iconinfrunitas:
A true art community...You have my support, my friend.

Did you have the artwork backed up in another location? I'm lucky because such an occurrence hasn't crossed my path yet. Many of my pieces have been revised and have irreplaceable comments (critiques) on here.

Without a decent excuse would push my anger past the breaking point.

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Into an honest verse,
Itself, a call to angels.
The saddened lips of song that
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From the vile mundane.
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:iconsyragon:
It's a travesty... My inquiries to the help-desk have yielded nothing but cookie-cutter responses. It's abstract art and they claim 2 years ago model release documents were requested. They say a glitch prevented it from being deleted then. I tell them their brain is a glitch. On a less comical note, what's the logic in the statement that says trust the system it's just part of it that glitches? :\

Anyways... I agree with your sentiments, both for visual art and poetry/prose. Maybe even more so for literature given the literary nature of the responses / comments which are as much as the art experience as anything.

God forbid, but it would be more fair to "lock" deviations to the owner (not visible to others) rather than deleting them in a vindictive and hormone-raging-teenage-moderator-driven-website manner.

Love the art before yourself? $spyed loves the money before anything.

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:iconsyragon:
It's a travesty... My inquiries to the help-desk have yielded nothing but cookie-cutter responses. It's abstract art and they claim 2 years ago model release documents were requested. They say a glitch prevented it from being deleted then. I tell them their brain is a glitch. On a less comical note, what's the logic in the statement that says trust the system it's just part of it that glitches? :\

God forbid, but it would be more fair to "lock" deviations to the owner (not visible to others) rather than deleting them in a vindictive and hormone-raging-teenage-moderator-driven-website manner.

Love the art before yourself? The major shareholders love the money before anything.

Good to hear from you again... It's been a while! :)

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:iconsyragon:
So far the explanation is it should have been deleted 2 years ago because my 3D abstract art needed a human model release form/paperwork. LMAO. :O

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:iconsyragon:
Thank you.... how's life in your realm?

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