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A few weeks back we released Share buttons on deviation pages, making it easier for our visitors to express interest in different deviations while on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and Digg.  

While our intentions were good and many deviants were glad to finally see basic sharing features implemented on deviation pages, we had a lot of feedback from the community indicating concern regarding facilitating the promotion of artwork outside of the confines of the deviantART community.  For some, this is because they feel as if the people on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and Digg are those who turn around and end up stealing their art; whereas the folks at deviantART are more respectful of these issues.

Conceptually, we understand where you're coming from.  Here's what we'd like to propose.  When posting to deviantART, you're given an option regarding Sharing; enable or disable.

:bulletgreen:  If left ENABLED, you have the nice clean options for others to share and embed your work on other websites, with a link back to your deviation page and a prominent mention of your name for credit.  

:bulletgreen:  If DISABLED, these options are removed, share link options are removed, and the deviation becomes accessible only to logged-in members of deviantART.

If someone links to a deviation that has been disabled, a page similar to this would display:



* Please note this is simply a rough mock-up.

Once there, a person would have to sign-up or login-in to deviantART in order to see the work.  This doesn't prevent someone from logging-in for the first time and seeing the work and it certainly doesn't prevent art-theft via save-as links (basic browser function) or screenshots.  But, hopefully, it discourages unscrupulous activity by requiring the person to be logged-in.

Would you like us to enable this?  Yes or No?  Share your comments below!

We're looking forward to talking about this, and we'll collectively figure out the right solution.  There are also more things we want to do to help you in this area, and this is only one initial solution that we can get up and running quickly.

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:iconcelticmoon88:
~celticmoon88 Apr 6, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Hello there im new. would any1 kindly explain how do i share a link when i'm writing a note to some1?
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:iconrmpaul:
GOD DAMNIT DON'T LINK TO MY PUBLIC PAGE ON THE INTERNET.
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:icondaniejoy:
I would very much like to see this feature implemented within deviantART. It is far too often the community suffers from those who wish to steal their pieces of work. Therefore I am in favor of this feature.

:rose:

Danie
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:iconmundm:
Thank you very much. I'm very happy the best possible solution was implemented. :worship: And well... thanks for listening.
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:icondeshi001:
DA STAFF: Thank you for listening and giving us somewhat an option to disable/enable the feature. However it would have been much more simple to just create an option button in our settings to disable/enable the feature. It would been much better and simpler.

I know you would like us to promote our work, which is more traffic and money for you guys - however I'm not here for promotion or money.

I hope soon in the future there is option to disable/enable the feature in our settings. You guys do good work but this feature that you came up was just a headache and wrong. I don't care if someone wants to promote my work and share it with world. I don't care if they don't like my watermarks so they can upload it somewhere else. I don't want them doing it nor will help them do it by a click of a button.

Again thank you for the compromise.

Namaste
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:iconla-chatte-noire:
~la-chatte-noire Sep 16, 2009  Hobbyist General Artist
I've heard the default option is "disabled" but it's "enabled" for me :( is there any way to disable the share on all deviations at once? Because I have over 300 and I don't want to manually edit each one :(
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:icondeshi001:
I agree. I would rather have an option to disable the whole thing like it should have been done in the first place. If they can take the time to do all this mess than they could have at least give us an option to disable it.

I think this compromise was chosen to discourage us from editing everything and to just give up. However I will not give up until there is a button that disables the whole thing all around so we don't have to use the edit feature.

However this is a compromise that works for now.
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:iconla-chatte-noire:
~la-chatte-noire Sep 17, 2009  Hobbyist General Artist
Nooooo but everyone says it's disabled by default :cries:
I WILL disable it on each, but I'll wait a little, maybe they add that option.
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:iconragnarok-lenkiewicz:
I may consider coming back to Deviantart if this disable function is implemented. I have been a two time paying customer & I'm teetering on either getting my money back & never paying another cent or giving this site one last chance to fix the ridiculous daily errors & also stop exposing my copyrighted works on a website such as Facebook.com without my written permission.

(Reasons why I do not want my copyrighted photographs on Twitter, Digg, Reddit and Facebook are irrelevant. The point is DeviantArt.com does not have my permission)
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