What do you think of deviantArt?

[SpavVy]

@thorbjornlyk Vore, radioactive pregnancy, dirty diapers, and women with no mouths to name a few.
Edit: Well dirty diapers is more disgusting but the ones I have listed I personally found creepy.

[SpavVy]

I'm surprised I haven't done that yet in all my years of being on that website.

[ToxicRamen]

When I first joined DeviantArt which was in 2003, I mostly posted up fanart and some original characters. But at some point during my time on DA, I was constantly harassed by a couple of trolls saying that I wasn't a good artist. One of them actually claimed they posted up a comic strips with a couple of my original characters but with different names. Out of fear, I told my parents for advice and my dad told me I should have copyrighted my art first and I removed my original art. That really discouraged me to post up any artwork online. It wasn't until years later I talk to my uncle who is a storyboard artist, and he told me I should post my artwork anyway which I'm doing now.

But I haven't kept track of my DA account lately since I've been using Tumblr, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter instead.

[thorbjornlyk]

Out of fear, I told my parents for advice and my dad told me I should have copyrighted my art first

You should have have a copyright on any art you create if not stated otherwise though? According to the Berne Convention anyway. Not that you would have a lot force to put behind a claim anyway, but that wouldn't have changed much by filing for copyright first.

[Devika]

I should have copyrighted my art first

Copyright is automatic. It's not something you need to "do". If you made it, you have the copyright.

The problem here is with dA though, they have gone extremely lack with enforcing rules (and law in this case) so even if you do have the legal rights to your work, if they won't do anything there'snot much you can do.

[VermillionWorks]

Honestly I didn't know DA was THAT lousy until reading some of the posts here! O.o

Though I know they are pretty bad, and I've noticed I've been getting less and less favs and comments there. I can't tell if it's becoming obsolete due to other new places to post art or if it's just the community and admins that are making it that way.

I mostly post comic pages there, but I've been considering no longer even doing that and instead posting them as one big file there when chapters are completed and little else.

I've also had issues with their ads over the years. I've gotten SO many viruses from there and it took them YEARS to acknowledge that it was in fact an issue that needed fixing. Before that they actually blamed people for not having proper comp protection. XO

They finally kind of fixed up their ads, but I heard a friend pretty recently left DA open in their browser and they still got a virus...yet now they have an annoying popup notice if you have an ad blocker on as if their ads are perfect and you shouldn't bother being careful anymore. >.>

That place is a mess, and a waste of a good idea. Maybe Taps should consider making a new gallery site. XD

Has too much creepy fetish art. Nuff said.

Also this, this, dear god THIS.