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dA IS TAKING THE PISS

Sun Apr 27, 2008, 3:17 AM
  • Mood: Anger
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Yes, you heard
The past few months have seen half my gallery "relocated" because ive "wrongly" submitted my photographs into the "wrong" categories.

Yet even dA themselves dont seem to have a clue WHAT the hell theyre doing.


This photo
[link] for example was reloacted from Photograpy>Street to Photography?Architecture>Exterior
What IS the difference, I mean, really!?

This morning was the most laughable
They have relocated 44 of my deviations into Photography.Miscellaneous
Have you guys VIEWED my gallery? About half of my galler consists of landscapes, animals, people, buildings. These ALL have their OWN category on deviant art

Now dont get me wrong, I udnerstand that sometimes they need to be moved, but it seems to me that even dA doesnt have a clue what they are doing because after 44 of them were reloacted, about 30of that 40 were relocated yet AGAIn because they appear to have changed their mind.

WILL YOU LEAVE MY GALLERY THE HELL ALONE
IT IS NOT YOURS TO MOVE AROUND LIKE A PICE OF FURNITURE

I understand sometimes photographs are placed into the wrong categories. Maybe sometimes theres no RIGHT BLOODY PLACE to put them though. Sometimes photographs can fit into more then one category. Maybe if you had a BETTER CATEGORY SYSTEM?

I also get mad at the fact that I'm powerless over the move, they merely send me an AUTOMATED note in which I can NOT reply to unless I go via the help desk, which is also a piece of crap as it gets you NOWHERE

SO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
STOP MOVING AND REMOVING MY WORK
MAKE YOUR MIND UP ON WHERE IT GOES
AND LEAVE IT THERE



Am I the ONLY one who is a little bit annoyed at this?

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oh, Hon, i totally understand ur anger. i had my photo moved only once, but it also irritated me like hell, so i can imagine what u have to feel with half of you gallery relocated. Just as you said - there are sometimes photos which suit to more than one category and then it should be author's intention and decision where to put it, not dA admins'. Jeez, they're trying to make dA system perfect without putting too much effort in, it looks. It seems they're like "hmm.. let's show we care and do sth in dA. let's move some deviations." and the fact fact you cannot do anything about it. gosh!
i'm with you! <3
Thanks for your support on the matter.
I just got really irritated when I got that note saying dA has relocated 44 of your deviations. I was like WHAT!!! :|

Thanks <3 x
Sorry you had to go through that! I can get an idea of how that feels... In an old account of mine I had a picture moved that had both animals and people in it, and it was kind of equal so I put it under "misc". A mod later moved it to "people" even though that's not what the picture was about, and I found it very offensive since that was like belittling the animal portion of the piece, which to me was very important.

To the very least, if they can take the time to relocate several photos multiple times, I think they can take the time to send you a note and ask you, the artist, your standpoint of what the photos are, as many pieces of art are subjective.

All this really tells me is no real artist is running the site, otherwise they would understand this.
I thought and felt exactly the same.
Most of my gallery consits of nature, landscapes and photography. To be moved to misc was just obscene! XD

It was kind of insulting as well. Like youre photo with animals and people.

Thank you for taking the time to comment and fave :)

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wow, hasn't happend to me (yet), but I sympathise greatly.

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They did the same to me, relocating obvious photographs which were actually macros, and placed in the macros catagoree to 'miscellaneous'.

I get why your annoyed :D I wasn't impressed myself!
i've had 2 moved
i was bothered by it but then i said
what the fuck
i didnt want 2b put in a box anyway
lol
2 is nothing compared to the amount I had moved. lol.
I'm over it now though XD

I really should update my journal....I just cba >.<

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