Some members of the community have expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that not every "Art Theft" report is acted upon by staff; this article is intended to address the misinformation and inflammatory statements circulating about why this happens.
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CEA UPDATE: Clarifying the Definition of Porn
$realitysquared
reports, July 29
reports, July 29The official definition of “ pornography ” has been modified at several points over the lifetime of deviantART in an attempt to bring greater clarity in the wording used however portions of the community have demonstrated a tendency to be confused on the exact definition and continue to report things which fit their own personal viewpoints; today we attempt to clarify things.
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Break it down easy - Tracing Edition
$chix0r
reports, February 5
reports, February 5An easy break down of the guidelines & policy pertaining to tracing.
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CEA UPDATE 20090130; Issues Involving Copying
$realitysquared reports, January 30
reports, January 30Copying, referencing, painting over, redrawing, tracing; there are many ways that a work can be duplicated and there are portions of the community which revile all of them. Today we clarify exactly where official deviantART policy stands on the matter.
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CEA Update 20090120: Moderation System Changes
$realitysquared reports, January 20
reports, January 20In this CEA update we’d like to announce some changes in the moderation system which the community uses to bring theft and unauthorized use of works to the attention of the staff.
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Effective awareness raising on dA
$chix0r reports, January 13
reports, January 13A guide of how to raise awareness in the most effective way, without breaking policy on deviantART.
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CEA Update 20081119: Lewd and Sexual Commentary
$realitysquared reports, November 19, 2008
reports, November 19, 2008This week we discuss the issue of lewd and disrespectful commentary.
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CEA Update 20080511: Clarifying Mature Content : I
$realitysquared reports, November 5, 2008
reports, November 5, 2008In this update we continue with our series clarifying Mature Content, focusing this time on what Ideologically Sensitive content actually and when it needs to be tagged as Mature Content.
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CEA UPDATE 20082409: Clarifying Mature Content
$realitysquared reports, September 24, 2008
reports, September 24, 2008Over the years we have been functioning with a set of Mature Content guidelines for nudity and erotica in our FAQ which have been extremely general and open to a great amount of interpretation, we hope to clear this up today.
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CEA Update 20080910 Proper Harassment Reporting
$realitysquared reports, September 10, 2008
reports, September 10, 2008This week I would like to discuss proper reporting of harassment issues
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CEA Update for September 5, 2007
$realitysquared reports, September 5, 2007
reports, September 5, 2007UPDATES FROM $realitysquared : Spamming and Scams.
This week I’d like to point out a troublesome onsite trend which has affected many people and which we are working diligently to end.
As many users have noticed a large number of accounts have been created lately which either comment on user pages, deviations or send notes to hundreds or even thousands of deviants seemingly at random.
The contents of these comments and notes read approximately as follows:
OMG! you're a GENIUS! Why don't you join the poetry contest from [link] ? Free to enter, 100k prizes. You MUST win it!
The [link] is typically a “tinyurl” which disguises the true destination of the hyperlink.
If you receive a comment or a note which contains this phrase please do not click the link as they have proven to be malicious destinations (viruses), outright scams or simply annoying advertisements.
Please file a helpdesk report if you receive a comment or note containing that pasted phrase, but only if less than 24 hours has passed since you received it. These accounts are typically banned quickly so please don’t report if you notice the magical ! has appeared in front of the name. Also please do not be surprised if we do not give you a personal response to your report, we receive a large enough volume where only the first few will be personally handled while the later ones will simply be marked ‘Resolved’ without comment.
These instances are highly annoying for everyone and we are now taking more extreme measures to handling them and keeping these trolls off of deviantART.
This week I’d like to point out a troublesome onsite trend which has affected many people and which we are working diligently to end.
As many users have noticed a large number of accounts have been created lately which either comment on user pages, deviations or send notes to hundreds or even thousands of deviants seemingly at random.
The contents of these comments and notes read approximately as follows:
OMG! you're a GENIUS! Why don't you join the poetry contest from [link] ? Free to enter, 100k prizes. You MUST win it!
The [link] is typically a “tinyurl” which disguises the true destination of the hyperlink.
If you receive a comment or a note which contains this phrase please do not click the link as they have proven to be malicious destinations (viruses), outright scams or simply annoying advertisements.
Please file a helpdesk report if you receive a comment or note containing that pasted phrase, but only if less than 24 hours has passed since you received it. These accounts are typically banned quickly so please don’t report if you notice the magical ! has appeared in front of the name. Also please do not be surprised if we do not give you a personal response to your report, we receive a large enough volume where only the first few will be personally handled while the later ones will simply be marked ‘Resolved’ without comment.
These instances are highly annoying for everyone and we are now taking more extreme measures to handling them and keeping these trolls off of deviantART.
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The note that was sent to me yesterday contained that exact message. Darn it, Now even dA is not safe from these A-holes...
Great job on banning their arses here!
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Thanks for letting everyone know
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I got one along time ago--but my experience with Poetry.com assisted me in kissing it off!
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I also personally believe that with this recent bot-related spamming is being compared to the infamous Wordpress spambots who have been using random names to spam [link] at various oekaki and other bulletin board systems where either registration is not required or where guest commenting is enabled.
In order to reduce the spamming, I believe that an image filtering system called CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) would be used and randomly coloured upper/lowercase letters and numbers on a distorted image would be required in order for the registration of a new deviant to be completed.
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