DeviantArt Scam
We live in a world where
one can easily become a part of an online community. DeviantArt is an online
community for artists and art enthusiasts, allowing individuals to connect
through the creation and sharing of art. The website was launched on August 7, 2000,
by Angelo Sotria, Scott Jarkoff, Mathew Stephens and others. Artworks are
organized into categories including; photograph, digital art, traditional art,
literature, etc., along with downloadable resources such as tutorials. Additional
features include “journals”, “polls”, “groups”, and “portfolios”. [1] Wikipedia. (2017) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviantArt
The generic rules of
DeviantArt are; to refrain from Racist, bigoted or offensive remarks targeting
philosophy, religions, gender, sexual preference, or insult an individual,
group or genre of artwork. All volatile “personal” issues must be confined to
privet communications and public accusations are discouraged. Do not “spam” or “flood”
other users. Spamming is obnoxious and is typically used for self-promotion,
or other unwanted advertising while Flooding usually disrupts page loading
times and serves no useful purpose. Your work must be your own creation,
copy right laws, without proper permission the work will be removed, these apply
to all works submitted. Pornographic materials are strictly prohibited, along
with any nude, lingerie or sexually suggestive work featuring individuals under
the age of 18. Artists should have models who poses for artwork sigh release
forms giving permission to release the images, for both parties’ safety. Do not
abuse the site.[2] Community. (2017) https://about.deviantart.com/policy/etiquette/
These rules influence
how the users present themselves be limiting what the users publish as artists
and as viewers. The rules help users to connect with other artist that share
similar interests in subjects in this online community. ‘space is freedom’ [3] DeviantArt
provides users with the freedom of expression through their art, allowing the
users work to be labelled as privet or public. DeviantArt connects to many other
social networks including: Facebook, Pinterest, and tweeter, this allows a user’s
work to be viewed on these other forums.
The volunteer community appears to have the
most power over the website, this is to delete work off of a user’s account. this
power is given by the users, the volunteers job is to guard the site any punish
users that cause issues for other users. This was apparent after I had a number
of discussions with older users after I joined, I got the sense that the site
was friendly and easy going. On what I had posted I got constructed comments without any nasty comments everyone just wanted to help me improve, or just
made nice comments about the work I published. There were even fanart of the
sites official logo these were done amazingly, entered in a competition in the earlier
years of DeviantArt.
References:
[1] Wikipedia. (2017)
DeviantArt. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviantArt
[2] Community,(2017) DeviantArt; etiquette policy, retrieved from; https://about.deviantart.com/policy/etiquette/
[3] Tuan,Y.,(1997) space and place: the perspective of experience.
London, 41(1-7) doi: ISBN-0-7131-6221
[4] Hellobaby. (2014) DeviantArt Logo. Retrieved
from https://hellobaby.deviantart.com/art/Deviantart-Logo-498358909
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