Shifting the load (Another pointless journal)

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Deviation Actions

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I should probably apologize to the community of emoticon creators here at DA. A few days ago I complained about a user(s) posting photo packs (that have nothing to do with fractals) in the Fractal resource category. So now, after CmdrChaos and I both complained about it on that users page, he decided to pollute another category that photo packs do not belong in. www.deviantart.com/browse/all/…

For the near future (at least until it seems to have some sort of effect) I'm visiting the Fractal Resources page every day and reporting the miscats, and then leaving a message on the users page asking them politely to not post their work in the wrong category. I hope I don't get banned for harassment. 

So I apologize to the emoticon community and their CV. However, while I have unfortunately directed the same posting abuse from this person to another category, if you check out the link you will see that this particular deviant is not the only scourge on DA. I can't believe DA even allows this. I mean these are obviously just a bunch of kids or young adults that are cluttering DA with stuff that has nothing to do with creating and sharing art. I'm sure that many category's are suffering the same abuse. These people post their stuff in the wrong category's because there is no category for what they're doing. Why is that? Simply put, it's because that 'stuff' doesn't belong here at all in the first place.

How can Deviant Art expect to be taken seriously as a premier art site when they allow this? Sorry DA, no disrespect intended, but if you talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk... 

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Jaffa-Tealc's avatar
I understand your points but I don't think there is something dA can do about it. There is no submission approval process and considering there are 160 000 posts/day I don't think it's even possible to have some in place. It's one of the reason I don't browse dA categories. Either I use search or viewing new content via groups I watch.