I've said my peace on posting things in the News section so I'll have to ask a different question; why on earth would you post an entire article in <sub>/<sup> text?

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Definitely a forum topic.

And I hate forums.

'Cause it's cool, duh.

You would receive a better response if you tried in the deviantART Forums .

Also, you may want to take a read through of FAQ #325: Will you tell me why my friend was banned?



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They looked like they were banned to me...
Probably removed by DA for breaking a policy or two. DA doesn't won't tell the general population why, and would be wrong for them to do so anyways...

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there being banned not just leaving, there cracking down on photo rippers like dotmlk.

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LOL yeah

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some people are banned for ripping, but its generally not the case. there's a pretty nice number of known & repeat rippers within the community still, and a large number of reported rips remain online long after being reported. the situation there is entirely seperate though, despite having reached a depressing level.

a lot of bans are scapegoat bans, this is particularly true of klynx, he was far from a friend to dA and wasn't precisely one to keep his mouth shut over it, being someone who had a lot of critical commentary, he got noticed that much more, so his deviations from the rules were that much easier to justify and enforce.

you are right that in the past year+ a lot of solid, long standing deviants have begun leaving; there are numerous reasons, but i know a lot of these people from being here as long as i have, and they are unanimously reporting a few things:

1. being banned isn't a bad thing to them, it was just the final step to leaving in some cases.

2. they've already moved on to more art-centric communities anyways.

3. they'd grown utterly tired of the staff, even more than the $core.

4. lotta disagreements with $spyed, °dygel and $chix0r to name the top names i saw mentioned by people leaving. dygel obviously is no longer staff, and despite his sometimes disagreeable ways, the loss of him in the community certainly had an effect that is noticable.

5. the rest: unenforced rules; unfullfilled promises; unrealized features; croneyism; selective enforcement; "case by case" punishment levies; disagreements over other's bans; heavy pressuring from staff/core; etc.

i don't blame people for going away, i'm sad that we've lost quality personalities and artists though, as the general disregard by the company towards artistic sensibilities, artist's empathy levels, community bonds and constructive nature has increased dramatically in the latter half of deviantART's life, creating a strong 'us vs. them' sense for many of the longer standing members.

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Well...this is the internet. ANYTHING could have happened to them really.

Old people go, new ones come.

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