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The Wishlist: Non-Purchasable WishesDD and Seniority | Feedback, Feature, Commenting | All Other | Thank You

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This wonderful design by `GillianIvy!

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The Wishlist: Purchasable WishesAs Gifts | Points | Memberships | Commissions | devWear | Other | Groups | Thank You

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*DappleDew wishes for 1000 points
=halthewarrior wishes for 1500 points
=InvaderMakayla wishes for 1500 points
~Treo-LeGigeo wishes for 1500 points
=Yobtaf wishes for 1500 points
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Membership
*Burnedette wishes for a 12 month subscription
*Shikanomoide wishes for a 12 month subscription
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A Note on Daily Deviation FeaturesAt ten features into my tenure as Community Volunteer for Abstract & Surreal Photography I am noticing a certain trend in response to abstract and surreal Daily Deviations. I shall address some of the recurring themes here, and hopefully answer some questions along the way. At this point I would like to mention that I am talking about a small and vocal minority, and I sincerely thank the overwhelming majority for supporting the featured artists and their work. You're what makes this site such a great community.
With that said, let's get to the troublesome themes I am coming across.
The "This is crap!" Argument
As an observer and a critic, you're entitled to think that something isn't very good. However, exclaiming as such on the comments of a piece of work that an artist has spent time and energy creating is not only counter-productive, but rude and insulting, especially if it's not followed up with some advice about how you think they could make their

Undiscovered Weekly: LiteratureWelcome to the Literature Edition of Undiscovered Weekly
In case you're not familiar with it yet, Undiscovered Weekly is a series of articles aimed at putting a spotlight on some otherwise unknown talent across dA's various galleries.
Who's Featured in This Article?
:iconRiencuran: :iconhfeather53: :iconmistressofquills:
Riencuran's Interview
Take a moment to introduce yourself. Tell me a bit about your interests and your writing.
I started scribbling poetry and telling stories when I was a kid and never really stopped. I get struck by an idea or a phrase and I write it down on whatever happens to be handy, whether it's an email draft, a receipt, or a random envelope. I have snippets lying all over the place, in drawers, notepads, books, my car, my purse. I went through a very cliched phrase

About #seniormentorsSome time back now, I was trusted by `lazybutt to step up as the founder of #seniormentors; a request I accepted as an honor. This group pre-dates the group platform of deviantART--I wanted to be a part of #seniormentors when it was `seniormentors. The purpose behind this group has always been focused on mentoring the community in creating quality work--by having all the tools they need to achieve their best potential. As the current founder, I would like #seniormentors to be the hub for seniors of the community to portray the best of dA and feature tutorials that help learning artists improve.
Through my years on deviantART, I have noticed how vital ticked off deviants can be if their "powers" (increased visibility in the community) are focused on positive growth. I've asked seniors why they think they're a senior and many have no clue why, some have an idea, but all have made an impact in the community. I'd like to give seniors more purpose through this

January 15thSalutations

It's never too late to start :iconglory-be-project: and I have posted up another collab scraps

- I don't mind if anybody uses this for the GB!P.
On that note, feel free to drop in, even if you're a non-member, and participate in the renga tree:

And now, overdue, my recent favorites:

It's `OfOneSoul now!That's right, you guys!

I got TICKED OFF!
Some of you may be wondering
how exactly being ticked off
would make me so fucking happy...

So - allow me to enlighten you
on what it is to be a Senior of dA
& how to become a Senior!
:iconlachoirplz:
:FAQ29:
Senior Members of deviantART are selected by the Director of Community Operations ($fourteenthstar), after reviewing suggestions made by the community with other full time deviantART Staff. Announcements are made on a quarterly basis and during special, celebratory events such as our birthday.
So what does it take to become a Senior? That's a question many have asked and have never really been able to get a straight answer on. Some have gained Seniority as a thank you for their time spent as a Volunteer, or to recognize their contribution to a particular project or collaborative action. Some have gained Sen

Love dA Lit: Issue 107Welcome to the one-hundred seventh issue of Love dA Lit!

Every Sunday this article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, and spotlighting a specific group every week. This is by no means a complete list of all the literature going-ons, merely a tool to help you get involved and stay informed.

This week’s group spotlight is #PoeticalCondition!

#LITplease's Community Portal

Navigation
Literature Links | Group Spotlight | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources

Make a Difference #188Artists join deviantART to share their art and appreciate others. Due to the many artists out there, it's easy to get towed under and generally obscured from the public.
Make a Difference aims to do exactly that. This series of articles will hopefully make a difference to you as well as the artists featured weekly. Just by giving one minute of your time to write constructive comments, favourites and even watches will make a difference to these artists.
:iconRobinHalioua:'s landscapes are magnificent and awe-inspiring. The lighting and colours are both key features that work together so well to convey a scenery that is pretty mesmerising indeed!

*RobinHalioua's Gallery
:iconbleedthedream180:'s poetry is profound in concept, further highlighted through the brilliant use of rhythm and rhyme. Th

Make a Difference #187Artists join deviantART to share their art and appreciate others. Due to the many artists out there, it's easy to get towed under and generally obscured from the public.
Make a Difference aims to do exactly that. This series of articles will hopefully make a difference to you as well as the artists featured weekly. Just by giving one minute of your time to write constructive comments, favourites and even watches will make a difference to these artists.
:iconselene-emotion: Motion is fantastically captured in quite a lot of :devselene-emotions:'s shots. The concepts are also often intriguing in the way they give us new insight into topics as well.

~Selene-Emotion's Gallery
:icondearpoetry:'s literature is wonderfully experimental sometimes, but mostly liberated in form and phrasing. Her poe

Love dA Lit: Issue 104Welcome to the one-hundred fourth issue of Love dA Lit!

This weeks group spotlight is #APictureToA1000Words!

#LITplease's Community Portal

Navigation
Literature Links | Group Spotlight | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources

SMP Newsletter: March 2013Welcome to the March Newsletter for the Seniors Mentoring Project!
We have lots of great and exciting things to report from the Seniors Mentoring Project! First, is that `WhenPigsFry (that's me

) has volunteered to devote way too much time to the project. I will be trying to organize and keep things running around here. Some of you may have seen my first journal entry talking about needing to change a bunch of stuff. I think I came off wrong in it, so I wanted to talk about that really quick.
My intent wasn't to completely overhaul #seniormentors but rather discuss what is and isn't working and find ways to improve it! Thanks to the help of `LostKitten, `WDWParksGal, `Infinite-Heart, and many other Senior Members, I have been able to take a look at some areas that need to stay the same and some that needed changed. Some of it has taken place and some is yet to come!
Also, don't think

A Serious WarningI am not playing around with this anymore.
And now a second warning since this warning didn't make it clear enough.
We have rules here. I and my admin team will not be further harassed by people who refuse to follow those rules or who think they should get special treatment for whatever reason.
We draw wishes at random. That is the final word on that.
If your wish is so difficult that it can't be granted easily or within 2 months of being randomly drawn, it will be listed as completed so you can make a new wish. We try VERY HARD to grant these wishes, but some just end up NOT BEING POSSIBLE. If you have a problem with this, stick to the types of wishes we outline in our FAQ. If not, don't complain to us when we do all we can but end up unable to grant it fully.
If you make a wish that is so hard to grant that it has to go to the pending list for 30 or 60 days after we do our be

PE: Community Week PLZ AccountsCommunity Week - PLZ Accounts

Overview

Can you spot the difference between

and :icongladlikeplz

If you hover your mouse over it, you’ll see that the first is a link to a deviation (http://fav.me/d5judp5), while the second is an icon for a special type of account called a PLZ account.
PLZ accounts are deviantART accounts made for the sole reason of being an emoticon. Anyone can make these accounts. (For more information on making PLZ accounts, see this previous Project Educate journal http://fav.me/d3jjwiv.) The deviant chooses an account name that represents the image he/she wishes to display, and usually adds the phrase ‘PLZ’ at the end, so other deviants are aware that that account exists to be an emote (in the example above, the account name is “gladlikeplz”).
To use the PLZ account, you merely

Literature DD Roundup- February 2013Greetings everyone!
February comes and goes so quickly, I can’t believe it is March already!

Suggestions have been dwindling of late, please feel free to send them in! Otherwise we are left to pick our own and we all know that `thorns will feature any poems about coconuts and ^neurotype will find prose about cake!

What DD's stood out for you this month?
Here is the roundup for March:
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Welcome to the Wishing Well on deviantART

So you want to join our group? Well okay then! But before you start out on this epic journey where our crack-team of admins presses that magical YES button, you need to know a few things. If you have already joined and are wanting to make a wish, please read this blog.

Mission Statement

dAWW is a community-based group on deviantART and only operates on deviantART. Our primary goal is to give a venue where community-oriented and other policy-abiding community members can not only make a wish but have their deviantART-related wishes granted, be featured and recognized for their talents and participation, and for these deviants to have a safe atmosphere to gather and share artistic and charitable interests.

The basics of the Well

At the Well, we have members who make wishes, members who grant wishes, members who get featured, members who help feature, and more! Joining the Well does not mean you automatically get something for free or are entitled to free things. It doesn't mean that you will be featured, that you will become popular, or that you get anything other than a fancy icon in your groups widget on your profile or awesomesauce blogs and art in your Message Center.

We draw wishes and features at random. RANDOM. We are community-oriented, so we have a review process in place to make sure that those deviants who benefit the most from this group are those who CHOOSE to follow the policies of deviantART. We also have several rules at the Well with very clear consequences (see the FAQ for more information on Abuses of the Well)...

Immediate Removal from the Well
Wishing on multiple accounts
Arguing with admins
Harassing members

Removal from the Well at the 2nd Offense
Complaining about being featured
Complaining/spamming about not being featured
Repeated attempts at account/wish changes
Spamming the group with any request/.question
Repeatedly asking us to grant your wish
Repeatedly asking why the group hasn't granted your wish

What the Well is NOT

dAWW is not able to grant time-sensitive wishes nor is here to allow deviants to hold giveaways and contests of their own by granting their wishes for points in a set amount of time. It is unlikely that your wish will be granted the same day, week or month that you make your wish as wishes are granted through random drawings held each month. If you are relying on your wish to be granted in order to be able to hold a contest, do a giveaway, give a birthday present, etc, you will most likely be disappointed.

dAWW is not rich nor a source for deviants to come to receive handouts. dAWW is also not run by rich people, does not beg for handouts or donations, does not spend points on itself and is not a magical place where free stuff just falls from the interwebs. PEOPLE do all the great magical things by granting wishes. Those people are all of YOU. Without donations from great community members, we would not be alive at all (donations of points, features, arts, etc).

What the Well IS

The Well is a GIFT. This group was made to try and help people. It is not an official group, no one is paid to be here and run the group and it certainly wasn't mandated by deviantART to be created and do what it does. As such, we work as fast as we can to get wishes updated and granted. We work very hard to try and make sure every deviant who wants to join is allowed to join without compromising our Mission Statement and rules. The admins and members who help grant wishes are giving a huge gift of their TIME: time that they could be using in other groups, with their families, on art, etc.

The Well is a SAFE PLACE. As such, users who have a history of or appear to currently be participating in clearly anti-community behavior such as trolling, harassment, spamming, begging for points, writing callout journals, etc are not allowed to join or make a wish until their behavior changes. This also means that users who are in clear violation of deviantART policy are not allowed to join.

Ways Members can be Removed from the Well

There are a few ways a member can be magically removed from the Well (or blocked). We don't like to remove or block deviants, but it happens...

Members are removed when...
They harass or bully admins.
They harass or bully other members.
They continue to spam or argue with the group after one warning.
They are found to be participating in one of the zero-tolerance activities (bullying, trolling, callouts and hate art).

Reviews and Joining

To join this group, you must request a review. By default, you will be given a limited review only AFTER you have stated it is okay to review your account. To learn more about reviews, please click here.

What we look at...
Activity
Journals
Comments
Gallery

What we look for...
Inactivity or moved/hiatus accounts
Callouts, trolling/bullying, hate art, excessive begging
Excessive Copyright Infringement (submissions against dA policy)

Resulting actions...
If we find that you are basically active, are not participating in any of our zero-tolerance activities, and you are fairly vigilant about following copyright policy, you will be allowed to join the group. If we find otherwise, you will be declined and given a message as to what we found and how to fix it (note that it is YOUR decision whether or not you choose to follow our recommendations at the end of a review).

How to Join the Well

You do not have to include a wish when you join. You do not have to give us a reason, kiss our toes, or do anything special. All the magic will happen once we get the request in our message center. The process for joining the Well is incredibly simple...

1. Go to our main page.
2. Click the button that says "Join this Group"
3. Submit your request.

Once you complete steps 1 through 3, you just need to wait (and be patient - we will decline you if you spam us with requests to join!). After you join, you will be asked if it is okay for your account to be reviewed. If you say yes, we will do a limited review of your account. If you say no, we will decline your request to join the group. If you take longer than a week to reply to any communication with us, we will assume you are no longer interested in joining and decline your request.

That is all.

If you have questions about this or the process, feel free to leave a comment. However, please note that if you repeatedly ask us questions that are explained in this blog that we will consider that an abuse of the Well.

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