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Presenting: Community VolunteersA BRIEF OVERVIEW
Over the years, we've been proud to offer the opportunity to volunteer with deviantART. We believe that our volunteers play a crucial role in helping our community develop and grow in positive ways.
The Gallery Moderator (previously known as Gallery Director) and Message Network Admin (MN@) teams have become a much loved and appreciated role, with many volunteers proudly detailing their experience in applications to enter into successful careers with companies who all recognise the value of volunteering in such a vibrant and eclectic community. Did you know that some of our now full time Staff were once volunteers? $fourteenthstar, $Moonbeam13, $pachunka, $aunjuli, $y2jenn, $damphyr, `Tachy-on, $dxd and $Ikue all volunteered in various roles -- and we are all very proud of that fact!
Over the past few months, we've been taking a close look at the volunteer experience -- what's worked, what hasn't worked a

Jump into a new journal portal!Here's a quick bit of trivia! Did you know that journals comprise about 25% of posts submitted daily?

Journals are an integral part of the deviantART experience, and coming soon, they'll receive the spotlight they deserve.

Introducing the new Journal portal!
A brand new look is coming to the News page.
From the Journal portal, which will be replacing the News page, you'll be able to browse, submit, or search journals and news. You'll be able to browse by Newest, Popular, and Featured (which is comprised of official deviantART news and highlights).
Journals will be visible with their skin, giving you a better context of the post.
(Hover over the screenshot below to see more!)

What happened to the old News page?
As you may recall, we teased the release of merging news, journals, blogs, and deviations in order t

11th BirthdayDeviantART's 11th birthday is August 7th!
Here is how we're celebrating in #communityrelations
August 1

#dAseniors brings you 11 things I love about dA Contest - Deadline August 7, 2011

"What do You See?" Contest - Deadline August 15, 2011

11 Years of dAvolution Contest - Deadline August 20, 2011
August 3

#fella and #communityrelations bring you a birthday scuzzle! read more for details
August 5

#fella is hosting a Pre-bdAy Chat Spectacular in the #Fella Chatroom

deviantPOINTS: An updateOver the past few months we’ve been keeping a watchful eye on the way that members in our community have been offering points as payment for certain types of services within deviantART. We’ve seen all sorts of creative uses, from offering to critique your work for a few points, journal features for a few more points and my personal fav -- avatars, journal skins and any other sort of art commission for points. It’s been great to see deviants use their experience and skills to fund their super group upgrades, prints purchases and even treating their friends and families to their very first item of deviantWEAR.
As time rolled on, we noticed a new trend creeping in. People were not just offering a small number of points for a task that they’d normally do as part of their daily deviating -- people were offering thousands of page views for hundreds of points, and there seemed to be no limit to the amount that could be purchased, or offered. It didn

deviantART's 11th BirthdAy: Let's Celebrate! Tweet

August 7th, 2011 marks deviantART's 11th birthdAy, but in true devious style, we're taking a whole week to celebrate! Our original plans for Deviants Appreciation Day were so huge that there was no possible way to express our love for the community in a mere 24 hours. Instead, we've created Deviants Appreciation Week, and what better time to host a week's worth of community-oriented events than in the days leading up to our birthdAy?

Each day this week, we have something special organized for you to participate in! Check out the schedule of events below to come party with us!

In Skribble, our latest community contest, we challenge

The 5th Annual Bolt Award 5th Annual Bolt Award

The Bolt Award is an accolade that recognizes an individual's significant contributions to deviantART. The Award celebrates such contributions and brings to light the exemplary work performed by its recipient.

In 2007, the first recipient was none other than the award's namesake, Chris Bolt ($chris), and in 2008 we saw Heidi Chambers ($Heidi) presented with the well deserved honor.

In 2009, the Bolt Award went to the pixel perfect Stanley Sy ($starvingartist) who then passed this on to Simon Murray ($pachunka) during our 10th Birthday Celebrations in 2010.

This year, we are deeply honoured to announce that

Skribble Contest: Let's Get Creative! Tweet

A mere eleven years ago, deviantART met its humble beginnings. Since that time, we've grown to be the world's largest online art community, but even a site as massive and established as deviantART had to start somewhere. We never forget those few small sparks that launched deviantART to be where it is today, and that's what we're celebrating during our birthday season.

For this year's community event, we're embracing the idea of starting small and creating something amazing from just a few quick sketches. We've started this work for you and challenge you to finish it with the pizzazz that only the best art community in the world co

Our Favorite Memories and Moments Tweet

As part of our week long celebration of appreciation and love for our community, I had the pleasure of interviewing some of our Staff to find out what their favourite moments and memories of the community are, their favourite deviations and what they like best about the wonderful deviantART community.

Favorites Memories
Favorites Deviations
What We Love About dA

Angelo, Co-Founder and CEO

I can't pick just one, because I love dearly so many moments in the history of deviantART. But as I read the question, the first one that came to my mind was eating Vegemite for the first time with Justin Maller (+ekud) wh

Pimps & Whoas - July 26, 2011Pimps
Official dA News

The Art of Capturing Souls

CodePLZ - What is the plan

Presenting: Community Volunteers

Cutting Edge Prints, Week 30/11

Quit Work, Be A….

24 Hour Prints Sale
Comic-Con!!

deviantART Artists Represented at Comic-con!

South Park features work created by deviants!

Vigilante Oriented GroupsWhen the deviantART Groups system launched in beta nearly two years ago we fully expected it to become home to a large variety of Groups centered around every subject possible and that is exactly what has happened and we are really encouraged to see so many embracing the Groups concept and coming together around these common topics to share their thoughts and works.
Today we’d like to discuss a certain type of Group which often comes to our attention, and not always in a good way; the “vigilante” style Group.
For those who may not be familiar with these types of Groups, what we call a “vigilante” Group are those which are created and centered around gathering deviants together to encourage the reporting of rule breakers and members who may be in violation of one or more official policies.
While gathering together in order to promote following the rules is not a bad thing there are good and bad ways for these types of Groups to operate; We always appre

Daily Deviations DescriptionsGreetings!
My name is Danielle or $Moonbeam13, and I'm the Director of Community Relations here at deviantART. During the course of my day part of what I do involves shaking things up and testing new ideas to keep things fresh in the community.  Most of these ideas stem from community feedback - things the community has related back to my team of volunteers or to me directly.
Such is the case with Daily Deviation descriptions.  First, let's clarify what was tested and what the end result is because there is some confusion.
Originally, I had requested that the volunteers not reuse descriptions sent to them by suggesters.  I know it seems nutty but there was a period of time where I was receiving an unrelenting amount of complaints about us just 'pasting what the suggester said' and so I decided that for a short period I'd let the community see what it looks like when we don't do that. As suspected the amount of complaints about 'no descriptions' was alm

Plans Gone Wrong Contest Tweet

Chaos Panda by $chix0r

We're throwing one panda, one light, one pie up against the incredibly successful Fotolia One Cat, One Fruit, and One Clock Contest. Let's see if our new completely crazed random selection can pull in more than the 10,000 entries we received last time.

Here's the big twist: This time, we're challenging you to use the theme of "plans gone wrong" in
your image.

You must use one each of the specific pandas, lights, and pies provided in the asset pack and create an image showing "plans gone wrong." Your entry can originate in any medium! These are stock pictures. You can trace them, draw them, photomanipu

Introducing Sta.sh and Sta.sh Writer! Tweet

What is Sta.sh?
Sta.sh Features
Sta.sh Writer
Sta.sh Muro
Upgrade Sta.sh

What is Sta.sh?
Sta.sh is deviantART's new upload and submitting platform, home to all of your images, writings, Flash/animations, and everything in-between. It provides you with an area to place, organize, and perfect your artistic workings to submit to deviantART and beyond. A suite of features all in one, Sta.sh is here to make your online life a whole lot easier.

Drag & Drop, & Store

Drag and drop multiple files at one time quickly and easily. Submit immediately to deviantART, or take time to customize or enha

News to know: beware of phishing scams!There is currently an individual or group of individuals who have created a fake deviantART login page, and they're using hijacked accounts to continue to share the URL of the fake page.

  Please spread the word:
If you click a link that directs you through the deviantART "There Be Monsters Out There" outgoing link page and you unexpectedly return back to deviantART while logged out, check the URL of where you are before entering any of your details.
The proper URL for the actual deviantART login page is: deviantart.com/users/login.  (Note that there is nothing between "deviantart" and "com" except for a "dot.")
If you find yourself unexpectedly logged out after clicking an offsite link, immediately check the URL to see if anything extra has been added -- this would indicate that you are in fact on a third-party website masquerading as deviantART.  For example, if the URL reads something like deviantart.[som

Steve Jobs - Community Contest & Tribute:icontechgnotic:
:iconspyed:
Foreword
by $spyed
A number of media outlets are closely monitoring the artistic response by our community to the death of Steve Jobs.
For me, Steve Jobs is an icon. The John Lennon of our time. And while his wife and children, as well as Apple and Pixar, are the landmarks of his life, Steve Jobs encapsulates the core values that have inspired a generation, separate from the images put forth by his companies.
It is his iconography that we as a community should come together and try our hands at capturing. No small feat, but it is precisely what I'd like to see us do. The iconography of Steve Jobs himself. Apple and Pixar and those types of images aside, Steve Jobs transcends these accomplishments through the meaning of his life's work, his vision, and the inspiration that he will continue to be to us all.
Iconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification, description, and the int

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deviantART's response regarding Art4Love.com

Journal Entry: Mon Aug 22, 2011, 6:38 PM

It recently came to our attention that a website called Art4Love.com was offering prints for sale, some based off of deviations also found on deviantART.com (and perhaps other works by artists not on deviantART).  Art4Love.com is currently offline, but was up long enough to make some artists very understandably upset, as neither the artists (we are told) nor deviantART ever gave permission for Art4Love.com to sell these prints.

We've been tracking the exchanges of comments and journals about all possible infringing activity and are ready to provide information from our side that would help legal action that any of the affected artists decide to bring.  We will also fully cooperate with any government agency that may become involved because of consumer complaints against this apparently infringing website and the people running it. We would also happily cooperate with any possible fraud investigations.

As a note of caution, we don’t have all the facts.  For example, there is not yet confirmation that any prints were ever sold; there is a lot of speculation about who the person or people might be behind the website; the images actually visible on the website were only thumbnails and we have no understanding how the people running that business could have gained access to large enough files to make prints; and so forth.

Thank you to all deviants who brought this matter to the attention of deviantART's administrators.  We've been working on this issue for several days and will continue to closely monitor the situation.  We ask that deviants please keep level heads during this ongoing process.  If you have additional, specific, details to provide on the matter, please contact me via note.

~$Heidi

_{Vice President of Marketing
deviantART, Inc.}

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deviantART's response regarding Art4Love.comby #hq

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=roxanajordanr Dec 11, 2012 General Artist

deviantART (DA) should think about the fact how easily images we all upload here can be copied. It's common knowledge that if anybody right-clicks an image with the mouse, opens it in another window, the image can be downloaded. Many deviants upload huge sized images here. There are ways to protect images. There are many websites in the internet that protect their images. DA should do the same here.

~KyuubitheZoroark Oct 6, 2012

I swear if ANYONE EVER edits my work and sells it,calling it their own,I will hunt them down.We work hard on our art to entertain the public,those who take the said artwork should be arrested and make sure their email addresses are banned from making a profile on any kind of websites and profile they currently have should be removed IMMEDIATELY

!Mothergoose19 Dec 15, 2011

When I first saw this website the images were not thumbnail size. They must have changed them after we all started making comments stop stealing our art.