i'm not here to make friends, i don't care if anyone here likes me or not, it doesn't really affect me, what i do care about is being harassed by staff and having the staff be rude to me, i will NOT pay my hard earned money to a site which cares nothing for me, and treats me as poorly as i've been treated here.

deviantART continues to commit itself to responding to the creative outlet needs of its members, releasing and revamping categories as interest grows. [link]

oh, and let's not forget this gem: My position as Director of Artist Relations also places me in the position of manager of the Policy Violation Administrators and the other tasks related to insuring that deviantART remains a place where members are free to express themselves without undue censorship or unwarranted restriction, free from copyright infringment, plagerism, discrimination, prejudice or abuse.

right, my four pictures that were deleted had no artistic merit to them, they were offensive
and had to be deleted, the help desk can't be bothered to reply to me on them, gee, it's only been 3 days, sorry, i'm sure they're too busy answering inquiries from other confused artists wondering why the post nazis deleted their stuff...

i liked this picture so much, i wanted my own version of it, but i felt i could take a better shot (better in my eyes) with a model who was physically a bit different, and i liked the results (after photoshopping) so much that i posted 3 different versions of it....

ALL OF WHICH were deleted not more than FIVE MINUTES after they were posted....

and they were composed and processed almost EXACTLY like this shot, with just minor differences in the subjects of the pictures, and actually, MY pictures showed LESS of the genitals than this one does.... [link]

yet this picture has been up for almost 2 years.... mine were gone in 5 minutes...

and i know the first picture that was deleted last week wasn't eleted by the tier admin, it was deleted by another admin from some other category, why are admin stepping on each other's toes like that? i think that's a pretty rude way for staff to act towards each other

one of my pictures was called "a picture taken with a crappy camera and flash" well, that admin was sure in the know, the picture was taken with a $300 SLR camera and no flash..

unlike this picture which was taken with a flash and apparently has a lot more artistic merit: [link]

gratuitous genitalia? right, now i love and respect woodeye, i've chatted with him before on other issues but gee... this seems a little gratuitous to me: [link]

oOoOoOoOoooo there's a vagina in this picture too, just hangin out there.. that's offensive: [link]

wow, this one is super close up! just like my first picture which they deleted as being gratuitous.... i guess the coffee bean negates the fact that it's just a large picture of a vagina [link]

oh no, look out! here's another gratuitous genitalia shot, and this one implies bestiality!!
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here's another one, one of my B&W pictures was a shot from the neck down.... much like this one, except the model was more centered: [link]


i've paid to support this site because i thought they ideals behind it were great, well, little did i know that no one here had read their own agreement, especially the "undue censorship" part, it seems there's a double standard... click the links below to see, now i mean no harm against the photographers who's pictures are listed below, as a matter of fact, all of the deviations below are on my favorites list, and the artists for the most part are on my watch list...

i am a paying customer and as such deviantart, inc. has a responsibility to me. unlike what certain admin say, the subscription fee is *not* a "donation" it says so on the receipt they emailed me, and even if they are not a true corporation (as the "inc." implies) by claiming they are, they are comitting fraud, and yes, they claim as much when the deviantart.com domain was registered...

and jark can claim he's from wherever he wants to be from in the world, i think it says china or something on his info, but DA.com is regestered and hosted in the US and therefore falls under US jurisdiction.

i'm not looking for special treatment, i'm looking for equal treatment, and at least some respect due any person.

i don't need admin noting me or replying to posts with snide comments...

and i'm not supporting this site with my hard earned money if i'm not going to have those expectations met, and i'm posting this in the public forum because i want to encourage all the non subscribers to really consider whether they want to spend their hard earned money as well.