The dynamic between core staff, volunteer staff, and the community can at times be pure quality dArama.
It's worth noting that for years I've worked pretty hard to remain neutral on community politics. Today, I'm going to shatter that concept.
Needless to say, I am extremely politically aware of the inner workings of the deviantART community. I read *a lot* of journals, comments, forums, chat rooms. I have fake accounts. I spy.
But I don't spend my time talking politics, instead I focus internally at deviantART designing technologies and implementing understandings with core staff to address the issues I see pop up.
It's time to take a mo
I find that the political section of the photomanipulation category is somewhat knee-jerk at best and utter duckspeak at worst. It is as if the same old tired responses are recycled in a slightly different form -- the pope as hitler, the president as demon or oilmonger, the muslim as either terrorist or freedom fighter. What I don't see is an opinion that has any sort of originality to it. You can have an opinion about the war or on Islam or on the Pope or anything else and do interesting things to illustrate your point. I wish someone would do that here.
I do wish the artists engaged me in their comments instead of simply deleting mine. If
Thank you for you comments on my "Th Scream: Prop 8". I finally got around to answering him - there and on his page (We saw Milk yesterday. Got my blood boiling.)