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Hi, I would like know how to allow my own group members to do more than just view? They're stuck on members can only view and whenever I tried to switch it, I get this sign that won't allow me to do it.
Please, I just want to know how to solve that problem.
Please, I just want to know how to solve that problem.
Hello. There is a person who's been harassing and stalking me for a couple weeks and every time I report or block them, they create a new account just to continue. Should I contact authorities and file a police report about this? Also, since this person keeps making new accounts every time they're banned and blocked, I suggest making a system that prevents banned users (i.e.: spammers, hackers, and stalkers) from creating a new account. Please respond as soon as possible!
Hi. Sorry you had to wait so long to get a response from anybody.
"Should I contact authorities and file a police report about this?"
What would they be charged with? There's no law against being an a**hole. If there was, half of the country would be behind bars.
While, strictly speaking, what they are doing is a violation of the TOS on DeviantArt, I'd recommend that you not even bother to report it. The staff at DeviantArt is blatantly pro-troll. The person handling the report will probably look for any possible excuse to refuse to help you, and having failed to find one, simply make something up - especially if the person reporting the harassment is male. In my case, when I reported the use of alts to evade my blocking of another user, the person at the support desk who refused to take action tried to defend this by claiming that another user who would go on to block the same troll a few hours later, was really my alt. When I pointed out that this other user lived 30 miles from me and could be seen posting comments just minutes after I did, making that claim a little hard to square with the facts, Support's response to that was dead silence. The person who was harassing me continues to post to DeviantArt, despite making a career out of this sort of thing, and has gone on doing so years later.
One has to be realistic about the management, and to be blunt, the community. Look at the way the company, contrary to standard practice in the industry, forces us to have comment sections on our pages, denies us the option of screening comments in those sections, and then puts a 500 person cap on the total number of people we can block, meaning that if a mob of over 500 people (alts included) gangs up on a user, all he can do is play whacamole with the abusive comments posted on his page. Why, lacking a desire to empower the trolls on its site, would a company do any of that? The sad news is that most of the people on this site think that's wonderful. The users on this site love the trolls, love the sight of lone users getting dogpiled and sometimes terrorized, and love the unjust, upside down logic of conflict resolution used by the management.
Which is why a lot of us have been barely seen on DeviantArt for years, or walked away from the site altogether, as I probably will at some point, myself. We don't need this community's c**p. My advice to you is to get a blog. The market has settled down, and we know which providers are likely to stick around - Blogger, Tumblr, Wordpress.com and maybe Livejournal. Tumblr is probably your best choice, as long as you remember to use text posts instead of photo posts, because it seems to allow for practically unlimited space for uploads and because it allows you enough control over the coding of your blog, that you can keep comments from appearing. Livejournal seems to offer practically unlimited space, too, but it also has a history of letting its infamous abuse team run wild, so if you were thinking of ever posting anything even remotely controversial, that could be a problem.
You can then run the RSS for your blog through Dlvr.it to a profile on Twitter. Socialize on Twitter for a while to get followers, so you'll have readers. Eventually, the trolls will find you there, too, because they're everywhere on social networking, but at least with Twitter, you can have an exit strategy. Eventually, when you have enough followers, you can walk away from Twitter, cutting all links to the site, and just never look at the responses. Automatic tweeting will continue to bring you traffic and the trolls can be left talking to themselves.
Using Twitter, in this manner, you could also post to Flickr, which has allowed the posting on non-photographic artwork for years (there are thousands of groups devoted to just that). When images on Flickr are tweeted, smaller versions of them will appear on Twitter, so Flickr might be a good backup location for your images, though given the recent acquisition of Flickr by Smugmug, I'd be careful about using Flickr as the sole place I posted.
Hope this helps, at least a little, even if the help didn't take the form you initially hoped for.
"Should I contact authorities and file a police report about this?"
What would they be charged with? There's no law against being an a**hole. If there was, half of the country would be behind bars.
While, strictly speaking, what they are doing is a violation of the TOS on DeviantArt, I'd recommend that you not even bother to report it. The staff at DeviantArt is blatantly pro-troll. The person handling the report will probably look for any possible excuse to refuse to help you, and having failed to find one, simply make something up - especially if the person reporting the harassment is male. In my case, when I reported the use of alts to evade my blocking of another user, the person at the support desk who refused to take action tried to defend this by claiming that another user who would go on to block the same troll a few hours later, was really my alt. When I pointed out that this other user lived 30 miles from me and could be seen posting comments just minutes after I did, making that claim a little hard to square with the facts, Support's response to that was dead silence. The person who was harassing me continues to post to DeviantArt, despite making a career out of this sort of thing, and has gone on doing so years later.
One has to be realistic about the management, and to be blunt, the community. Look at the way the company, contrary to standard practice in the industry, forces us to have comment sections on our pages, denies us the option of screening comments in those sections, and then puts a 500 person cap on the total number of people we can block, meaning that if a mob of over 500 people (alts included) gangs up on a user, all he can do is play whacamole with the abusive comments posted on his page. Why, lacking a desire to empower the trolls on its site, would a company do any of that? The sad news is that most of the people on this site think that's wonderful. The users on this site love the trolls, love the sight of lone users getting dogpiled and sometimes terrorized, and love the unjust, upside down logic of conflict resolution used by the management.
Which is why a lot of us have been barely seen on DeviantArt for years, or walked away from the site altogether, as I probably will at some point, myself. We don't need this community's c**p. My advice to you is to get a blog. The market has settled down, and we know which providers are likely to stick around - Blogger, Tumblr, Wordpress.com and maybe Livejournal. Tumblr is probably your best choice, as long as you remember to use text posts instead of photo posts, because it seems to allow for practically unlimited space for uploads and because it allows you enough control over the coding of your blog, that you can keep comments from appearing. Livejournal seems to offer practically unlimited space, too, but it also has a history of letting its infamous abuse team run wild, so if you were thinking of ever posting anything even remotely controversial, that could be a problem.
You can then run the RSS for your blog through Dlvr.it to a profile on Twitter. Socialize on Twitter for a while to get followers, so you'll have readers. Eventually, the trolls will find you there, too, because they're everywhere on social networking, but at least with Twitter, you can have an exit strategy. Eventually, when you have enough followers, you can walk away from Twitter, cutting all links to the site, and just never look at the responses. Automatic tweeting will continue to bring you traffic and the trolls can be left talking to themselves.
Using Twitter, in this manner, you could also post to Flickr, which has allowed the posting on non-photographic artwork for years (there are thousands of groups devoted to just that). When images on Flickr are tweeted, smaller versions of them will appear on Twitter, so Flickr might be a good backup location for your images, though given the recent acquisition of Flickr by Smugmug, I'd be careful about using Flickr as the sole place I posted.
Hope this helps, at least a little, even if the help didn't take the form you initially hoped for.
My friend can't log back into dA, what might be wrong?
Hello I'd like to announce a problem I have with a group that got mysteriously deleted. Is it ok if I note you about it? It would be appreciated if this problem was not yelled in public 
but we may have possibilities of hacking problems with it and I'd appriciate a responce.
but we may have possibilities of hacking problems with it and I'd appriciate a responce.