Alright, it seems to contact the DA support helped mostly the issue of the majority of my artworks getting blurred/hidden from non-logged members. (Reference to this chain of journals.) There are still some artworks of mine having been marked as "May contain sensitive content. Log in to view." but it seems the majority is now visible.
This is actually a huge relief as at the end of 2022 I felt extremely desperate, disappointed, and just sad about what came to DA's bot problems and the lack of fixing that bot's errors. After all, DA was the first actual art site where I had posted my art and built my art gallery, so having it crash and burn because of something like that? Not cool.
It took a lot of time, me posting several journals about the issue and even contacting the support, not to mention DA isn't still out of the hot water with me as still few of my artworks are being hidden/blurred from the public, but now the situation is enormously better. Now it doesn't feel anymore like I'm running some sort of huge "sensitive content" (like DA would put it) art gallery on DA, which is a good thing.
I'll still keep in the future eye of my gallery from a visitor's perspective to ensure such an unfortunate event won't ever happen again where most of my artwork will get hidden, just so I can faster contact the support as I feel like contacting them helped most...
Alright, it seems to contact the DA support helped mostly the issue of the majority of my artworks getting blurred/hidden from non-logged members. (Reference to this chain of journals.) There are still some artworks of mine having been marked as "May contain sensitive content. Log in to view." but it seems the majority is now visible.
This is actually a huge relief as at the end of 2022 I felt extremely desperate, disappointed, and just sad about what came to DA's bot problems and the lack of fixing that bot's errors. After all, DA was the first actual art site where I had posted my art and built my art gallery, so having it crash and burn because of something like that? Not cool.
It took a lot of time, me posting several journals about the issue and even contacting the support, not to mention DA isn't still out of the hot water with me as still few of my artworks are being hidden/blurred from the public, but now the situation is enormously better. Now it doesn't feel anymore like I'm running some sort of huge "sensitive content" (like DA would put it) art gallery on DA, which is a good thing.
I'll still keep in the future eye of my gallery from a visitor's perspective to ensure such an unfortunate event won't ever happen again where most of my artwork will get hidden, just so I can faster contact the support as I feel like contacting them helped most...
I'm getting sick and tired of the fact DA is blurring/hiding some of my artwork, because of some ridiculous reason. (Reference to these posts.) It seems they've taken yet another new step by providing this text: "May contain sensitive content. Log in to view." So, if you're a non-DA member, you'll see some of my artworks sporting that text.
What's more, it seems by slamming that text instead of 'mature' or 'unavailable' has now resolved the "issue" as DA has in their help & faqs section 'Known Issues'. For a long time this issue was listed there, but not anymore. So, the issue has been solved. Not really. Some of my artworks are still hidden and I can't figure out why.
What's more, when I looked at why some artworks may be hidden, there was basically a section that if external audiences deem those artworks "don’t align with their interests" those will get hidden.
Excuse me, what? While I can understand real adult themes should be hidden/tagged correctly and somewhat negative emotions (even in that explanation I don't understand why "sadness or other topics associated with negative emotions" can't be shown. Like hello? Those are part of life?) That basically means if the external audiences decide they don't like, say fanart, boom, it gets hidden. Or if they decide 'bunnies don't align with my interest' boom, it gets hidden. I feel like DA is slowly spiraling into children's sites as in 4kids style. Where most ridiculous things get edited (in this case hidden) because someone decided 'nu-huh, I don't like this!'
Well, I'm still trying, despite the fact I'm starting to feel like giving up on DA. I've contacted the staff about this issue and I hope they'll answer to me what's so 'bad' in some of my artworks that those get hidden. Depending on their answer (or the lack of it, since I wouldn't be surprised if they won't answer me or they just tell me 'it's what it's) I might change my main art site.
I've already taken steps on my Tumblr blog to change it more into a personal one and I'm building Instagram account what comes to art. I've also started to post my older art on Pixiv. But the fact is, things have changed. I want to show my art without ridiculous restrictions because of someone else.
If I want to post an anime/manga character on the beach with a bikini, I want to. I don't want someone to hide it and make it sound scandalous when it isn't. I want to post pretty drawings of pretty anime/manga characters without someone deciding to hide those because I didn't happen to draw full bodies that would show they're fully dressed up. And there is so much more. I tag very meticulous manner my posts on DA and any other site to ensure people can block those tags if they don't want to see such content. I've played by the rules, but when those rules start to get too ridiculous and like I'm being punished for no reason, I don't see why I should stay on such a site or anymore play by those rules.
Hence, if DA's reply to my inquiry will be a negative one, I think I'll start to be more selective about what to post on that site. I'll still post there, but if it gets hidden the next day, I'll probably just delete the artwork on whisk it on Tumblr and Pixiv and later on to Insta.
I've started to build my Insta as my main art site, but it'll take time.
I've started to post some of my older works on Tumblr and Pixiv, but it'll take time.
This is truly a pity because the way DA has been built is different from any other sites that I'm using at the moment. I just hope my most dread won't become true, but if those will...well, it's what it's. But for my own happiness that should ultimately matter, some changes will happen. I just hope those who follow me on different sites will accept these changed and maybe still follow me. But if they won't follow me, that's their right and decision that I'll honor.
Reference to my earlier journal, it seems DA has now once again updated their wording what comes to non-logged user viewing other people's artworks. Now in the blurred/hidden artworks reads "May contain sensitive content. Log in to view." Despite the fact DA seems to think the 'problem' has disappear when they just tweaked the wording little bit, it hasn't as now DA has removed from their Known Issues page "Why are my deviations showing as mature while logged out?" It seems I've to contact customer service and hope by some miracle my artworks will suit their brand tastes...Let's see how that goes.
Once again, I'll state this: None of my artworks contain 'sensitive content'.
Reference to my earlier journal, it seems DA has now updated their wording what comes to non-logged user viewing other people's artworks that are blurred/hidden from mature/NSFW into Unavailable. None of my artworks are unavailable and if you open those to view (while not logged), those don't really contain any sensitive content.