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Daily Deviations UpdateHappy Monday MorningDaily Deviations Update1 year ago in Community Relations More Like This
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!)
CR Newsletter - November + December 2011CR Newsletter - November + December 20111 year ago in Community Relations More Like This
Table of Contents
1. Reflections
2. Volunteer Openings
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 the Galleries
1. Reflections
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly a year can fly by. I've made it a practice over the years to sit back and reflect on the year, what went well, what didn't and where I'd like to see the new year go. A year can bring a lot of lessons and without reflection it's hard to ensure that you've taken away everything important from it. I apply this personally and to deviantART and it's that time again
A couple of fun highlights:I got to sit next to Felicia Day and help conduct our interview with her at SXSW. I'm a pretty big fan so this was very cool. Our presence at SXSW was also a v
Pimps and Whoas - February 9, 2012PimpsPimps and Whoas - February 9, 20121 year ago in Community Relations More Like This
Official dA NewsCelebrating Deviousness - February 2012
Pimps and Whoas - March 22, 2012PimpsPimps and Whoas - March 22, 20121 year ago in Community Relations More Like This
Official dA News
Seniority Announcement - December 2011This article marks the latest announcements detailing the latest additions to the dizzy height of Senior members in our community. With just over 800 deviants holding the highly saught after ` -- it's clearly a moment that deserves recognition.Seniority Announcement - December 20111 year ago in Personal More Like This
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So what does it take to become a Senior? That's a question many have asked and have never really been able to get a straight answer on. Some have gained Seniority as a thank you for their time spent as a Volunteer, or to recognise their contribution to a particular project or collaborative action. Some have gained Seniority because of their community spirit, providing help and assistance to many other deviants and taking time out to promote the work of others in the community.
Some people have received Seniority because of their artistic endevours, having a positive influence on their peers by sharing resources, providing constructive criticism and by being a voice that stands out above the many others who deviate to be recognised
Pimps and Whoas - January 12, 2012PimpsPimps and Whoas - January 12, 20121 year ago in Community Relations More Like This
Official dA News
Celebrating Deviousness - February 2012 Deviousness AwardCelebrating Deviousness - February 20121 year ago in deviantART Blog More Like This
Deviousness Award
Congratulations to `MelGama
Redhead Angel
Don't Give Up II
The Prayer
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.
A new month, a new Deviousness Award! Join us in congratulating `MelGama as the recipient for February 2012. Mel's dedication to the community is outstanding. We're inspired by her selfless efforts at bringing positivity and raising awareness of other artists.
Moremio.
When we are dreaming
A star for you
Who is `MelGama?
Me
Celebrating Deviousness - January 2012 Deviousness AwardCelebrating Deviousness - January 20121 year ago in deviantART, Inc. More Like This
Deviousness Award
Congratulations to `thorns
Beta Reading Tutorial
Beta Reading for Authors
Vintage Style Frame
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.
As 2012 kicks off with fireworks around the world, we're also celebrating in style with the
latest addition to the recipients of the illustrious Deviousness Award.
Community Relations Newsletter - March/April 2012Table of ContentsCommunity Relations Newsletter - March/April 20121 year ago in Community Relations More Like This
1. Gallery Clean Up Project
2. Feedback
3. Volunteer Openings
4. Share Your Opinions
5. Community Projects
6. Official Contests
7 Project Educate 2011/2012
8. Art History Project
9. Gallery Description Project
10. News from the Chats and Forums
11. News from the Galleries
1. Gallery Clean-up Project
The Gallery Clean-up Project will focus on literally cleaning up the category tree in several ways. This first part of this project, is all behind the scenes. Over the years there have been categories that have been "removed", merged, or changed and there are back-end changes that need to be done to fully remove them from the tree. This part will not affect you, and if everything goes properly, you won't even notice it
The second part of this will be ensuring that the categories are all accepting the correct file-types. If there is a file-type that isn't being allowed in a particular category or
Community Projects - UpdateHi! I'm Hunter, your "new" Community Projects volunteer! I hope our time together will be awesome and productive, and to further this goal I've prepared this... um... brief update to let you all know of some changes coming to the Community Projects gallery, and how we're going to continue in 2012! So here we go!Community Projects - Update1 year ago in Community Relations More Like This
Changes to Community Projects
So this year we're going to do things a bit differently. My primary goal as Community Projects CV is to support you, the community. Community Projects doesn't exist solely to run our own projects, we're primarily here to help you out with yours. If you want to run a Project, read this article, as it will explain things in greater detail, and then send a note to $haldron.
If you know of an awesome project, and you think we should know about it too, link it here!
Category Changes/Additions
In the past, we added a lot of categories to Community Projects each year, which ended up cre
Celebrating Deviousness - April 2012 Deviousness AwardCelebrating Deviousness - April 20121 year ago in deviantART Blog More Like This
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
Pimps and Whoas - January 28, 2012PimpsPimps and Whoas - January 28, 20121 year ago in Community Relations More Like This
Official dA News
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Pimps and Whoas - April 17, 2012PimpsPimps and Whoas - April 17, 20121 year ago in Community Relations More Like This
Official dA News
Pimps and Whoas - November 25, 2011Official dA NewsPimps and Whoas - November 25, 20111 year ago in Community Relations More Like This
Project Educate: Critique Week Welcome to Critique Week!Project Educate: Critique Week1 year ago in Projects More Like This
For the majority of us on DeviantART, critique is an essential part of our experience and development as artists. As much as we love praise or positive comments from our nearest and dearest, most of us are seeking to improve our craft and to be able to shape our Art more effectively. Some of us purely post our work here to get that all important feedback and the extra special people amongst us are on here to give it.
However, to get critique is not always as easy as slapping up our latest piece into our gallery and wait for the responses to come flooding in. In fact if you genuinely want good critique, you do need to make a bit of an effort to get it and get effective, constructive feedback in return.
This week at #communityrelations, we are using the power of Project Educate to have a whole week dedicated not only to how to get critique, but how to give it, use it and make the most of what deviantART can offer and hopefully show you that
Celebrating Deviousness - March 2012 Deviousness AwardCelebrating Deviousness - March 20121 year ago in deviantART Blog More Like This
Deviousness Award
Congratulations to `RockstarVanity
Spirit
AJ
Stellar
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.
The dawning of each new month brings a new Deviousness recipient, and we're sure you'll agree that
`RockstarVanity is very deserving of the award for March 2012. `RockstarVanity's gallery is filled with striking, vibrant photography and endless inspiration.
Throughout her time as a Community Volunteer, Tanya promoted positivity whilst providing constructive
CR Newsletter - July/AugustTable of ContentsCR Newsletter - July/August9 months ago in Personal More Like This
1. Thank You!
2. Daily Deviations and Groups
3. Volunteer Openings
4. Share Your Opinions
5. Community Projects
6. Official Contests
7 Project Educate 2011/2012
8. Art History Project
9. News from the Chats and Forums
10. News from the Galleries
1. Thank You!
I'd like to take a moment to issue a very important "THANK YOU" to YOU! The deviantART Community. On the heels of our 12th Birthday, I've looked back at the projects that my team have undertaken and realized that in the last year, especially, the deviantART community has stepped up and helped to make projects like #projecteducate and #ArtHistoryProject successful. Without your contributions, interest, faves, feedback and participation, projects like these would go no where. I'm looking forward to more community interaction and participation projects and am always open to your feedback regarding projects or endeavors you'd li
Pimps and Whoas - December 13, 2012PimpsPimps and Whoas - December 13, 20125 months ago in Community Relations More Like This
Official dA News
Welcoming New Community Volunteers to the TeamPlease join me in welcoming the following deviants to the Community Volunteers Team!Welcoming New Community Volunteers to the Team1 year ago in Personal More Like This
^Aeirmid Photo-Manipulation
`CreativeJenn Fan Art
`stuck-in-suburbia Emoticons
`thorns Literature
`xbastex Photo-Journalism
`GuiTwo Visualizations
`Miss-It-Girl Anime/Manga
`ap-graphik Skins and Themes
`IridescentStardust Digital Dolls
^3wyl Chats and Forums
`anmari Chats and Forums
`Steph1254 Chats and Forums
^Astralseed Chats and Forums
Literature DD Round-up: January January Literature Daily DeviationsLiterature DD Round-up: January1 year ago in Personal More Like This
Hello Everyone!
Firstly, before we show off the roundup, can we give a HUGE thank you to the recent influx of suggestions! It really goes to show that the phrase “Many hands make light work” is so very true and we appreciate every suggestion that is made. Please keep up the momentum- search your favourites, your groups, and your inboxes and find those pieces that appeal to you. It doesn’t matter who you are or even how many years you have been here, we want to see your suggestions!
Featured by `Halatia
Featured by ^Beccalicious
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Self Harm Awareness day 1st March 2012Self Harm Awareness day 1st March 20121 year ago in Editorials More Like This
Today marks an awareness day over a subject that can mean many things to many people. Self Harm (or Self Injury) is the act of physical damage to oneself, usually as a coping strategy for expressing deep distress or coping in difficult situations. Self harm commonly is associated with cutting, but can also refer to any physical damage to the self including burning, hitting, taking overdoses, swallowing chemicals, bleaching, hair pulling ( trichotilliomania), scratching and so forth.
You may know what it is, but it is often the reasons why that people are not familiar with. There is still this belief and stereotype surrounding the type of person likely to harming them-self, but the truth is, it could be anyone no matter what gender, culture or age. The reasons behind self harm can be such a huge variety- different people cope in different ways with different distresses. Such issues that may trigger self harm might be bullying, t
Celebrating Deviousness - May 2012 Deviousness AwardCelebrating Deviousness - May 20121 year ago in deviantART Blog More Like This
Deviousness Award
Congratulations to `TimberClipse
Black and Blue
Playing Hard
Macro Rainbow Flower
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.
We are delighted to announce `TimberClipse as the Deviousness recipient for May 2012.
Zev's dedication to our community is without question. From developing helpful tutorials, to being a community leader in groups such as #Fella and #deviant365, you can always find him connecting with all areas of our community in order to spread hi
Gallery Description ProjectMost of you probably are aware that deviantART has a lot of categories. As you've seen over the past few months, we volunteers, in coordination with $Moonbeam13, often help to orchestrate various changes in category structure in order to make the submission and browsing experiences simpler and more advantageous for the community.Gallery Description Project1 year ago in Community Relations More Like This
That said, there's another aspect of categories which, sadly, often have been overlooked. I'm referring to the Gallery Descriptions. Over time, gallery descriptions have fallen into disarray, leaving many categories with old and outdated descriptions, others with incorrect descriptions, and yet others without a description at all.
At the moment, gallery descriptions are most prominent when submitting new deviations. However, as part of this project, we hope that they will become more evident as you browse the site. One of our goals is to make a simple, navigable category structure focusing on descriptions that are clear, concise, and consistent.
Pimps and Whoas - May 2, 2012PimpsPimps and Whoas - May 2, 20121 year ago in Personal More Like This
Official dA News
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