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Celebrating Deviousness - April 2012 Deviousness Award
Deviousness Award

Congratulations to ^shuttermonkey

All for the love of you

Pretty in White II

The Colors of Potter's Cay

What is this Awesome Achievement?

The Deviousness Award is an accolade which is traditionally handed out on the 1st of every month to one truly outstanding deviant.

It's no April Fools prank, today we are delighted to announce
^shuttermonkey as the Deviousness Award recipient for April 2012.

Funny Face ID.

Landing Lake 2

Playful Reminder II

Who is ^shuttermonkey?

Cory's dedication to the community is astounding. Not only is he what we would call

One epic Journey needs your helpI rarely write to promote others efforts in raising money for charity. It's because there are so many out there, that to promote each time I come across one would be ongoing forevermore. However there is one particular cause that I would like to direct your attentions to today.
A friend from my college days is cycling unaided from Lands End to John o' Groats in June of this year. That's basically from the bottom of the UK, to the top. He's doing it for a very special charity based here in the UK called Naomi House. And why? Because in 2008 his newborn niece unfortunately died - but Naomi House were there to make her last few days as comfortable as possible. Naomi House provides respite to sick children with life limiting illnesses - and their families. It keeps a family together until the last possible moment.
I urge you today, not to donate. It would be nice if you can, but that's not entirely why I am writing about this. But I urge you more than anything else to spread the

Community Relations News - January + February 2012>
Table of Contents
1. Daily Deviations
2. Bi-weekly Critique Nights
3. Volunteer Openings
4. Share Your Opinions
5. Community Projects
6. Official Contests
7 Project Educate 2011/2012
8. Art History
9. News from the Galleries
1. Daily Deviations
Recently, I announced changes to Daily Deviations in this journal and I'm happy to say that the response has been favorable. To review, we have made the following changes:
a> The "3-month rule" is now the "6-month rule" meaning an artist cannot receive another DD if they have had one in the last 6 months.
b> Daily Deviation selectors are limited to a maximum of one selection per day. This has been put in place to focus on quality vs quantity.
The hard-coding of these new guidelines is now in place (special thanks to $ZombieCoder for that

).
These changes are part of an ongoing initiative to better our Dai

Emoticon Gallery ChangesGreetings!
There are some changes to the Emoticon Gallery structure that I'm excited to announce. Months ago `Synfull suggested this layout:

and the response from the community has been entirely in favor of this structural change!
While I have made most of the changes the category currently looks like this:

Emoticons

Chat Friendly

Animated

Large - up to 150x150

Medium - up to 50x50

CEA Blog: How to communicate with the CEADuring the course of our daily activities we receive a lot of communication from members, in the interests of helping you get the right help in the quickest possible manner we have put together this guide on how to communicate efficiently with the CEA team.
Before contacting the CEA we ask that you do the following:
Check for a relevant +faq entry to make sure your question isn't already addressed there. This can save you a lot of time waiting for a response that you can easily access.
Check recent #communityops blogs to make sure that your issue hasn't been addressed there.
If reporting harassment, have you blocked the deviant and hidden their comments already?
Collect any relevant information about the issue, links to comments, journals or deviations
If the issue has upset you, take a few minutes to make sure you're calm before contacting us. This will help your tickets

Pimps and Whoas - February 9, 2012Pimps
Official dA News

Celebrating Deviousness - February 2012

Pin Up From Objectification to Empowerment

The Great Valentine Exchange

Site Update Comment Counts on Thumbs and More

Giving Your Stacks an Introduction

Daily Deviations UpdateHappy Monday Morning

I started this morning by signing something "Moonbam13" so either this typo means I need more coffee, or this week is going to be BAMTASTIC!
I'm rooting for the latter

I wanted to post a quick update on changes to Daily Deviations. It is important to note that these changes have not been hard-coded so my team is manually following these new guidelines. This means that errors can and likely will occur until the coding is complete, your patience and understanding is appreciated

The following guideline changes are in effect:

The 3-month rule is now the 6-month rule, meaning that it must be at least 6-months since the last time an artist received a daily deviation. (This was an overwhelmingly popular suggestion from the community and I agree, it's a good one!)

Daily deviation selectors may only select one daily deviation per day maximum. This has been put in place to focus on Quality vs Quantity.

The 2012 deviantWEAR previewWe've been busy producing a ton of new deviantWEAR designs for spring and we're giving you a chance to tell us what you'd like to see printed this Spring and Summer. Vote for the designs you'd like to wear, and comment to let us know what you like and don't like about them. For as long as deviantWEAR has been outfitting deviants with cool tees, hoodies, bags, and accessories, we've been designing all kinds of stuff that never sees the light of day. This spring, we're laying all the cards on the table and letting YOU tell US what you'd like to wear. So check out the newest designs by `reiiz and tell us what threads YOU want to rock this spring!
Click here to preview and vote for the 2012 deviantWEAR Collection!

Staff Picks February Fine Art Prints
Wrapped Canvas
Photos Prints
Art Gifts

Working at deviantART gives staff the unique experience to stumble upon and appreciate works of art that may not have gotten the attention they deserve…yet. So check them out, +fav them, and let them style up the inside of your abode today!

The Color Green
Urban Happiness
Water

The Color Green

Artist
By *veprikov

Suggested By
$LaurenKitsune

Dandelion
By ~Nijn88

Suggested By
$liquisoft

A Sea...
By *pesare

Suggested By
$erickthedesigner

Valley waterfalls

ArchitectureI recently watched a documentary on Frank Lloyd Wright and I have been scouring deviantART for some amazing Architectural pieces of places that I have seen in real life.
:shop16174068: :shop1135796: :shop3882606: :shop5600198: :shop11382905: :shop25833183: :shop4693936: :shop3762784: :shop16174491: :shop6167832: :shop19677587: :shop3806044: :shop4100911: :shop725676: :shop11428809: :shop5128344: :shop16326189: :shop16697595: :shop18202839: :shop10347307: :shop14747512: :shop11442662: :shop25867826:

Prints On The RiseThese are some Prints that are making waves in the Prints Shop.
OVUM Obscura by *HR-FM

Lateralus by`vhm-Alex

Florence by *NiceMinD

Let's by `TwiggyTeeluck

Alice's World by =kokdemir

Community Relations - September/October 2011
The Community Relations team exists to facilitate communication amongst deviantART's administration, volunteers and members. Our goal is to foster creative genius by encouraging artists to grow, collaborate and participate in a friendly and supportive artistic environment.
Table of Contents
1. Daily Deviations
2. Volunteer Openings in Community Relations
3. Share your Opinions!
4. Community Projects
5. Official Contests
6 Project Educate 2011/2012
7. News from the Chats and Forums
8. News from

Update: Fair Exposure and Popular Browse

Fair Exposure and miscategorization
On January 24th, 2012, we released an #hq journal regarding Popular results for Browse. In this journal, we described Fair Exposure -- deviantART's algorithm for Popular browse results. Fair Exposure's goal is to showcase the most popular deviations in a variety of styles, genres, and art forms, without bias towards a particular topic.
Since the release of our Fair Exposure announcement, especially in the last handful of weeks, we've noticed a concerted, dedicated effort made by deviants, or groups of deviants, to specifically beat (or "game") the system. Deviations have been intentionally miscategorized in hopes of having them appear "higher" in Popular results. This has, rightfully so, resulted in complaints from deviants who submit to deviantART in a fair and honest manner.

Lots of bitching...I haven't been on DA all that much lately due to work commitments, but it seems like every time I log on here people are bitching about this, bitching about that.
Look, at the end of the day, this site provides a service. You can choose to pay for it, or you can choose to not pay for it. It works either way. If you really don't like it, not only should you not pay for it, but don't use it. No one is forcing you to.
It seems like a lot of people seem to think that being a member of this site gives them ownership of it. It doesn't. Be grateful it exists. Be happy that it is (now) profitable. For a long time it wasn't. The people who work on it deserve to make some money - they work hard.
If you don't agree with any of this, I think you're lacking in perspective. There's nothing keeping you here if you don't want to be. I think DA does a great job of listening to a vast community and trying to make changes to please it's members. It can't be incredibly dynamic and flexible to accomodate e

Engage Wonderment: Odyssey - Phase TwoGreetings Everyone. Over the last six weeks I have been plotting, planning, and researching all of the ways we might efficiently and effectively go about publishing Odyssey this year in book form. In an effort to bring back the best possible counsel before embarking on this process I have spoken with multiple publishers, printers, designers, distributors, and authors that I have worked with in the past.

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Wed Feb 22, 2012, 7:30 PM
Engage Wonderment: Odyssey - Phase Two
Greetings Everyone.
Over the last six weeks I have been plotting, planning, and researching all of the ways we might efficiently and effectively go about publishing Odyssey this year in book form. In an effort to bring back the best possible counsel before embarking on this process I have spoken with multiple publishers, printers, designers, dis

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Status Forum Concerns

Thu Apr 12, 2012, 11:22 AM

Hi Everyone!
I wanted to thank everyone for the responses on $Thunderstatement’s Blog Pro Tip: Don’t Wait to Report a Problem. There was quite few concerns about the state of our Status forum and we are working to address this because it is most definitely a valid concern and we greatly appreciate those who brought this to our attention!

For quite some time we tried to reserve the Status Forum to the most urgent issues which resulted in parts of the site being completely unusable resulting in high counts of tickets and concerns, to make sure that everyone was made aware of the issue as quickly as possible. By doing this the Status Forum remained quite small due to these types of issues not coming up as frequently and when they do the deviousTechnology department is sometimes so fast the issue gets fixed before we get to press the “Add Article” button!

Due to this our Status Forum appears quite dead despite the many issues that might occur on a weekly basis.

Several smaller issues can happen on a weekly basis that aren’t as severe as the ones we normally post up, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t important! We understand there is frustration when Bug Reports are submitted and result in getting told it’s a known issue even though there isn’t even on the Status Forum. In light of this we will be working our best to make sure more posts are made concerning the latest bugs that affect multiple deviants. Keep in mind though that there are some issues that we simply cannot(or will not) post such as security issues, minor typo issues, and issues that are only affecting a single person. We want to ensure that we can keep you all informed on all the buggies creeping around the site and encourage everyone to subscribe to the Status forum to keep up to date.

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Status Forum Concernsby $ewm

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^neurotype Apr 12, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

oooh...true

I think if it's an issue that's expected to last at least 24 hours, though, maybe that would make more sense to share on #dt? Either way, I think it shouldn't be more than a single click away. There should be a toolbar thing for "known issues", if that makes sense?

$ewm Apr 12, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

I was checking out dT and the group actually only has a little over 750 watchers so it really wouldn't be very beneficial to place known issues there. For anyone who subscribes as soon as an issue is known they'll receive an email right away so that is pretty much the quickest way to be notified when an issue starts and they can subscribe to individual posts if they want to be notified when an issue is fixed.

^neurotype Apr 12, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

oooh...that too. I feel like it should be used for more stuff since it exists

hmm...how about a bottom link in the vicinity of the "Keep In Touch!" stuff then? (the link would be the subscription to the forum)

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