I have been trying recently to really promote a channel on dAmn to encourage critique. I have previously posted a news article, posted about it in my journal, tried to promote it on the forums and on dAmn. Everywhere other than news and my journal that I mention it I get shouted down, not by moderators of dAmn channels that arent 'official' dA channels, but the official parts of dA. The forum, first post made was by a dA staff member locking the thread. In an offical dAmn channel I got told note to promote the channel in their. When I said I was only trying to improve dA and tried to discuss it with the staff member they didnt want to know and only said there were other ways to do this, when asked about the ways to do it I was ignored!

So dA is preventing me from promoting a room that encourages people to be active and to help each other learn and grow by leaving critique not waste of time 'love it' comments, this leads me to think that dA doesnt like critique. Its an awfull shame to think that possibly the largest art community on the internet and therefore in the world, is in a round about way, discouraging critique.

It is a sad day indeed.