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New report system puts FAQ into question.

=Mixedpie:iconMixedpie: reports, 21h 27m ago
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$chix0r:iconchix0r: reports, May 9
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*celestiadevs:iconcelestiadevs: reports, May 8
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A better way to organize deviations?

*Orioto:iconOrioto: reports, May 7
The actual way of organizing content is somewhat not perfect, cause it links two things that should be independant : genre and tech of an image.
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*celestiadevs:iconcelestiadevs: reports, May 4
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^Helewidis:iconHelewidis: reports, April 22
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Dangerous Pictures - UK Criminal Justice Bill

$chix0r:iconchix0r: reports, May 9
The UK Government have introduced a Criminal Justice & Immigration Bill to criminalise the possession of adult, staged, consensual violent pornography. How will this affect you?

New report system puts FAQ into question.

=Mixedpie:iconMixedpie: reports, 21h 27m ago
FAQs #565 and #305 are called into question as new report system shows pornographic materials ok'd by the administration.

The Wonderful World of Color

*celestiadevs:iconcelestiadevs: reports, May 8
A look into deviations using complimentary, contrasting, and monochrome colors.
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=fahap:iconfahap: reports, 4h 12m ago
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A better way to organize deviations?

*Orioto:iconOrioto: reports, May 7
So, i was talking about that in a journal and people seems to find the idea interesting. It's my first news anyway !

The actual way of organizing content is somewhat not perfect, cause it links two things that should be independant : genre and tech of an image.

Those two aspects shoudn't be linked for two reasons. Firstly, pratically, it makes some impossible matchs, as for me for exemple, who can't have a fanart photomanipulation category, as it just doesn't exist !

Secondly, ideologically, genre and tech should never be linked in any way. I'll take the animation exemple. People have the tendency to consider animation as a genre, and it reduce the scope of it. Animation is a technical aspect, but every genres can be represented by it. That's why the genre of an image shouldn't be associated by force to a technical style.

The thing i propose is really simple, and would greatly simplify the browsing ans submiting. Let's have two distinct and independant categorization in the submiting process. The genre, and the technical style. So a fanart can be anything, or a portrait, or a design... And the browsing would just be about chosing a genre, and, or (or not) a technical style.

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*Hilaya:iconHilaya: May 7, 2008, 2:03:23 AM
so what to do? should we report it to some of the gallery director?
i think the idea is wonderful, because i know the problem. i am not really satisfied with the categories as well

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=Sea-Sapphire:iconSea-Sapphire: May 7, 2008, 2:08:52 AM
That's an excellent idea. I know with your situation that you do photomanipulations (which you also digicolour a lot of) can't be in both photomanipulation and fanart categories at the same time. And there are probably many people with the same problem, so I think your idea should be considered by the administration.

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~ZulDzin:iconZulDzin: May 7, 2008, 2:10:48 AM
Yes! Lets have two categories to chose in the submiting process, this is great idea!

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~ihavenoorgans:iconihavenoorgans: May 7, 2008, 2:13:32 AM
so how would this tree map out? would it be choose the genre then technical style? or would it be technical style then genre? what would the list of genre's be? what would be the subcategories? what I'm assuming is implied is that you choose something like Fanart - Digital - Photomanipulation or Digital - Photomanupulation - Fanart. would it be possible to have a list where all aspects are relatively accessible by all other aspects? or would it be similar to the tapering effect we have now, only with a different branching system?
this is a great idea

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=karanua:iconkaranua: May 7, 2008, 2:16:07 AM
Agreed

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~boboverlord:iconboboverlord: May 7, 2008, 2:48:09 AM
good idea. genre and style of art.

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~ales-kotnik:iconales-kotnik: May 7, 2008, 2:49:43 AM
Great idea man

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~demann66:icondemann66: May 7, 2008, 2:53:20 AM
yea may be one can choose 2 or more categories for a single deviation... or something like that...

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*tiirikka:icontiirikka: May 7, 2008, 2:55:08 AM
Best idea for awhile. I'm so in.

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~demann66:icondemann66: May 7, 2008, 2:57:43 AM Mood: Anger
but that will make things more complicated then it currently is... :disbelief:

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