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Journal Entry: Sat Mar 12, 2005, 5:52 AM
Well, that's my DA subscription expired, should I renew, or just remain a member, I don't know.

What does DA offer me for my money, not too much, people in my friends list produce quality work, which is why I Watch them, but on the whole I think there is a lot of indifferent work floating around here, which takes up a lot of server space, and which no-one ever views. Some days I think people use this as a storage area for memory cards worth of photo's, why I would want to view a 2.1Mb image of someone's friend I don't know.

As for some of the stock galleries, it appears to be a univeral dumping ground for photo's of yourself, that you could not possibly use as a stock image, unless you want to build up your pr0n collection.

Perhaps I am dissolusioned with DA, I know there are other galleries out there more suited to photography, and that provide useful critique's.

100 Deviations and 3000 page views, perhaps it is time to move on to another gallery. We'll see.

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~project9928:iconproject9928: Mar 12, 2005, 1:33:29 PM
Ahhh you might aswell use this but not subscribe, I won't be subscribing again when mines finished in April. But I mean there are some good people on here who are not obssed with all the goth crap and blood and being missrable and depressed and taking the whole art thing way too far...... lol probably only 10 people =P.

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~jeej83:iconjeej83: Mar 12, 2005, 3:03:58 PM
Yeah, you make some good points. I guess really it's a case of asking yourself; "Can I put up with the adverts?". If you can, then dont re-subscribe. Nice gallery, by the way!
~ajm:iconajm: Mar 12, 2005, 3:44:08 PM
Thanks.

The Ad's are not a problem, as I use the ad-blocking extn of firefox, real useful plugin if you don't have it :D
~jeej83:iconjeej83: Mar 12, 2005, 3:46:43 PM
Ah, thank you, that's something to bear in mind.
=lostheart:iconlostheart: Apr 19, 2005, 9:28:02 PM
All photos gone?
So you're transfering them over to someplace else?

I have an account over at photosig and although the critique offered there is much more honest, there is no community.
I have plenty of issues with DA as well, but I'm afraid there isn't much of an alternative out there.

What I try to do is:
a) stay away from the forums
(they offer no productive help)
b) not look at any photos other then the ones by people I watch
(it's horrible to browse through categories for hours to find one good new photo and discover a worthy new artist...there's too much junk uploaded)
c) only comment photos by deviants who also comment
(not comment my stuff back...I have enough page views...I simply don't like leechers)

I found out by keeping these "rules" in mind, DA is much more enjoyable...

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"My heart has made me weary on a road less traveled on"
*aloneinkyoto:iconaloneinkyoto: Jun 8, 2005, 4:54:57 AM
hehe...i just found your page from mike horrocks'...and found your journal quite amusing

i am increasingly by the amount of seemingly random crap that i can see on the DA browse page....and it's not a case that they're the works of young, inexperienced artists...they are just 2.1Mb files of someone's mate that I don't know or a photomanipulation of a face in states of decay....great...

but why are we here..? i'm here cause they'll have me :P

but seriously...DA needs a bit of sorting out...*grr*
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