As mentioned last week in Policy News we announced some clarifications in our rules governing child and teenage photography which came about primarily due to concerns about online predators and other undesirable persons. This week we announce some other clarifications stemming from these same concerns.
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More Policy News
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Clarifying the Issue of Underage Nudity
$realitysquared
reports, May 1
reports, May 1This week we clarify and explain issues regarding underage nudity, including recent changes in policy.
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New Moderation System Launches
$realitysquared reports, April 17
reports, April 17In order to stay at the forefront of handling art theft, misuse and other unacceptable submissions we have introduced a brand new Moderation system
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CEA UPdate for 06 March 2008
$realitysquared reports, March 6
reports, March 6This week we discuss spammers and deviants under the age of thirteen.
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CEA UPdate for 14 February 2008
$realitysquared reports, February 14
reports, February 14This week we discuss types of off site links which we consider to be unacceptable.
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CEA UPdate for 07 February 2008
$realitysquared reports, February 7
reports, February 7This week we discuss three important issues surround stock resources.
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CEA UPdate for January 30, 2008
$realitysquared reports, January 30
reports, January 30This week I would like to talk about situations involving harassment, arguments and the blocking system.
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CEA UPdate for January 16, 2008
$realitysquared reports, January 16
reports, January 16This week we discuss tracing, copying, dolls, cards, and deleting your account.
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CEA UPdate for January 09, 2008
$realitysquared reports, January 9
reports, January 9Today I will attempt to explain what sort of harassment issues should be reported to staff and what issues should actually be handled on your own.
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CEA Update for October 31, 2007
$realitysquared reports, Oct 31, 2007
reports, Oct 31, 2007This week we address the continued problem of spamming
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CEA Update for September 5, 2007
$realitysquared reports, Sep 5, 2007
reports, Sep 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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Devious Comments
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Jenn Lee
Help Desk/CEA Representative
Community Development
deviantART, Inc.
"I wonder what it's like to be a super hero..."
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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If youve tried to do shadow clone jutsu you must be a narutard! XD
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Everything is but an Illusion....open your eyes!
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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