What is a bulk transfer

Bulk transfer is the process of admins transferring artwork and FP counts directly from an old tracker (usually from the previous owner or from an old format of the same owner) to a new one.

When to ask for a bulk

Usually a bulk transfer is needed when you get a new Kukuri from another player and it has a large amount of art in its tracker. Bulking is a must for trackers bigger than 250-300 FPs: re-counting bigger amounts from scratch is extremely time consuming and you may even lose some FPs due to artworks not meeting the actual art requirements (it happens mostly for really old art). For smaller trackers, for a max of 200-250 FPs, instead, it's not required: you can transfer all the art by yourself! Small trackers are fast to count even from scratch.

Can I Add New artworks

If you're transferring a tracker from a previous owner, wait for admins to complete the bulk. It's easier to transfer all the art correctly if the tracker is completely blank (so that pics won’t be counted twice or lost during the process). If you're transferring your own trackers (from stash to journal etc) you can upload the new art in the old tracker: while doing the bulk, admins will automatically check and transfer all the new artworks.

Deleted artworks

Sometimes this may happen (people leaving dA; archiving old artworks; personal reasons), but worry not! If you spot some deleted artworks in your trackers, if those were counted previously, you should ask for a bulk transfer despite how big your tracker may be: admins will just transfer the confirmed FPs.

FAQ

This way when the tracker comes to status updates, an admin does not have to count every picture again and again from scratch. For members who just keep adding new pictures and count only the new ones this isn't a big deal, but an admin has to check every picture every single time to make sure that no-one is trying to cheat points, to ensure that the picture is checked, and in some cases the admin checking the journal isn't the same one than the last to begin with. With this system it doesn't matter which admin does the counting, everyone after it can just skip to check the checkpoint and keep counting from there.

What if an admin made a mistake?

Reply to the admin who counted your kukuri, within 24h it’ll be possible to edit any kind of mistakes.

If the mistake is older, note us. We are human and sometimes mistakes happen, we will fix it as soon as possible.

Does this mean I can't put my tracker on outside websites? I don't trust DA to not delete stash trackers and I don't wanna make public journals.

Unfortunately yes, it means that you can't put the trackers on outside websites, we apologize for the inconvenience but try to grit through it reminding yourself that it does make our admins' job much easier, and the status updates SO much more faster!

The notifications are quite annoying with this system...

While we understand getting constant and numerous pings can get quite irritating, it's good to remember that it takes you about half a second to click the little x button to delete the mention, while it can take minutes for us to count a single picture and hours a single fp tracker page with the old system. Again, it's for the general good and fastness!

Can I create sub-threads to keep art more organized?

Please do not. Due to dA's comment system, this causes the process of making Checkpoint FP Totals to scatter all over the place, and sometimes the same picture ends up being counted twice by accident when being total-ed. And having pictures inside a sub-thread that has another sub-thread, can cause an admin to entirely overlook certain checkpoints too. This all causes the admin not only to have massive problems with counting your tracker, but also doubles or triples the time they have to spend with your tracker.

If you wish to organize your FP tracker to your liking, please make sure all comment threads are their own threads, and not within another comment thread.

Examples of acceptable FP tracker formats:

(for those who like to organize things, you can make more than the basic 3, as long as they do not nest inside each other)