anniex0r

Can't see shit, cap'n.

I've apparently been a DeviantArt member for 5 years as of today, 06/06/06... How odd is that?

K... forgot to log on for a few days... insane weekend...

Here's what I got:

Deviant: +ewm (#240660881)
Date: Mar 31, 2006, 10:57:55 AM
Thank you for your inquiry. I have sent your case up to the appropriate parties for review, you should be hearing from them as soon as possible.

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Deviant: ^superkev (#240665179)
Date: Mar 31, 2006, 11:12:58 AM
The reason I moved it was because the date shows up as:

Details:

* Submitted: Mar 28, 2006

on my screen. Must have been a time zone thing. Sorry about the confusion.

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I'm not so pissed off now... though that did kinda suck. At least it got cleared up.

This is why:

www.deviantart.com/deviation/3…


I submitted that as an entry into the "Show Yourself" contest... For no reason - and with no explanation - it was moved to "Scraps." Honestly... this offends me. Quite a bit, actually...

Who's place is it to tell me that it doesn't count as a valid contest submission or even a finished deviation? Who says this isn't finished? And why? Because I didn't put some big, black/white photo border around it? Because I'm unhappy with where I am in my life and mentioned that in the description? Because someone just didn't like it? How do any of those facts make it any less my ART? I'd really like to know. It's a fucking self portrait... Perhaps I misread something, but from what I can see, it meets all the requirements... Well, it did, until it was moved.

I didn't expect to win the contest. I don't give a shit about the prizes either. I posted it to be posting a self portrait with the theme of "the hell with still self portraiture, I sure am sick of trying" in a contest full of "look at me!" and "see, I'm trying to be different!" types. To see it moved - not even to my gallery, but to "scraps," is a slap in the face.

What's even more retarded is that I used to be a self portrait artist, with quite a number of fans. I've done so many self portraits in the past 10+ years that I don't think there's much of anything left of my soul that the camera hasn't already stolen.

So, fuck this.


*** UPDATE ***

This is the note I got saying it had been moved back... At least they did something.
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anniex0r,

Your deviation, listed below, has been moved from its current category as it was determined that it did not adhere to the submission guidelines of the gallery it was found in. The deviation will retain all of its comments and statistics. The updated information is as follows:

URL: [link]
Title: Lost without hi-8...
Submitted: 2006-03-27 9:01:21 pm
Original Category:
New Category: Contests: Show Yourself

This notice requires no further action on your behalf. In the future, please take heed of the gallery descriptions that are presented to you when a deviation is submitted or edited. These descriptions detail the submission guidelines for the galleries and categories being submitted to. Making note of these guidelines will help to avoid corrections of this nature in the future.If you feel that you are receiving this notice in error, or have questions regarding it, then visit the deviantART Help Desk to submit your inquiry. It should be noted that replies to this note will go unanswered, as it has been sent from an automated messaging system.

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ALSO:

anniex0r.deviantart.com/journa…

Apparently there was a time zone confusion issue.

www.myspace.com/arthappens

Do it to it, bitches.