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Jark Fiasco

Journal Entry: Thu Aug 11, 2005, 11:59 PM
I am surprised that the infamous emails about the Jark affair have been made public so quickly. It is interesting how many people have taken the time to carefully document all the hipocracy that has befallen DeviantART recently.

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Well at least we know the background, and with all the facts in front of us it is pretty clear what is going on.

Ironically I renewed my DA subscription only a few days before the shit hit the fan. I am not sure that the users striking will change things...only not renewing subscriptions will hit them financially. However, then there is the chance that the site will be shut down...and no one wants that.

The only real course of action would be internally, among the DA staff stading up to Angelo...and forcing a resignation, as well as the persistant demand for the truth from the community, not necessarily a revolt. A revolt would only work if a significant percentage, like 80 or 90 actually did disable their deviations....but we can't gain that much support because the changes among the admins have not affected the service or quality of the site.

Firing all their talented people, though, will eventually degrade the site as it will be unable to keep up with the art community, particuarly if jark and his comrades start their own art submission site.

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~Theriona:iconTheriona: Aug 12, 2005, 7:10:26 AM
Quite true; only a vast majority-effort from the denizens of DA would do any good :( and even then, only if some of the staff members also join up to help out. Thus far, I've seen staff be somewhat.... less than interested in what the community at large has to say about this whole affair. Not that I blame them, considering some of the crap that some angry deviants are giving them, but that isn't an excuse to ignore ALL of the people who are displeased with the current status.

I've been following justthorne's journals, because they've been some of the most clear and well-written ones that I've come across, and also because he's come up with a plan of sorts to try to get the admins to pressure Spyed on certain key issues (but not EXTREME key issues; he keeps his goals realistic for the short term). Have you seen the new deviation agreement? It has some veeeeeeeeery interesting wording to it, along with a rather disturbing revelation towards the end. Here's the journal with the submission agreement: [link]

Justthorne also has a lot of great links in his shoutbox to other information regarding this entire situation, and it's worth seeing just to check that out.

I hear you about the subscription thing >< luckily, mine'll be running out on the 14th, so we'll see if things improve enough for me to subscribe again.
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