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redneckgaijin1. IF YOU DON'T LIKE HAVING YOUR STUFF YANKED, GET YOUR OWN WEBSITE. Really. DeviantArt is not your website. You don't get to make the rules. You don't get to enforce the rules. You're a guest here. Don't put stuff on DA you can't afford to lose, and if you're going to push the boundaries of DA's rules, get your own site. Hosting is cheap, cheap, cheap. If you can't afford that, find a friend with their own site and ask for space there. There are certain DA folks here who have standing offers for gallery space on WLP's website, for instance.
2. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO RISK YOUR COPYRIGHTS, GET YOUR OWN WEBSITE. DeviantArt has to have a pretty broad damn license just to display your artwork on its site, because a copy of your work is generated EVERY TIME SOMEONE LOOKS AT IT. Every download is a copy. Without that "user agreement," DA is committing piracy on a grand scale with every picture of Princess Peach's panties you post. Besides, let's be honest- putting anything at all in any electronic format is putting a big sign on your back reading KICK ME, BEAT ME, PIRATE MY ARTWORK. Cheap web space is out there, folks- some places for $5 a month.
3. DA IS NOT A WEB COMIC HOSTING SERVICE. Trying to read a webcomic on DA is damn near impossible. Your artwork and your comic are mixed up in the gallery. Most people don't bother to make comic pages navigable backwards and forwards. I honestly cannot think of a worse archive system than DeviantArt for any webcomic. There are several free webcomic hosting services available, folks- or, again, you can get your own website. No excuse.
Now, if you just want to use DA to show off art to your friends and get to know other artists and creators, cool. That's what DA is for. But don't bitch when you try to use DA as if it were your own, or when you think DA is something it isn't. DA is not the entire Internet. There are other options. Next time DA pisses you off, instead of bitching, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
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2. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO RISK YOUR COPYRIGHTS, GET YOUR OWN WEBSITE. DeviantArt has to have a pretty broad damn license just to display your artwork on its site, because a copy of your work is generated EVERY TIME SOMEONE LOOKS AT IT. Every download is a copy. Without that "user agreement," DA is committing piracy on a grand scale with every picture of Princess Peach's panties you post. Besides, let's be honest- putting anything at all in any electronic format is putting a big sign on your back reading KICK ME, BEAT ME, PIRATE MY ARTWORK. Cheap web space is out there, folks- some places for $5 a month.
3. DA IS NOT A WEB COMIC HOSTING SERVICE. Trying to read a webcomic on DA is damn near impossible. Your artwork and your comic are mixed up in the gallery. Most people don't bother to make comic pages navigable backwards and forwards. I honestly cannot think of a worse archive system than DeviantArt for any webcomic. There are several free webcomic hosting services available, folks- or, again, you can get your own website. No excuse.
Now, if you just want to use DA to show off art to your friends and get to know other artists and creators, cool. That's what DA is for. But don't bitch when you try to use DA as if it were your own, or when you think DA is something it isn't. DA is not the entire Internet. There are other options. Next time DA pisses you off, instead of bitching, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
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