The Cynic’s Guide to DeviantArt

Introduction

So, you’ve decided to join deviantArt. This could be for one of three different reasons:

• You’re doing it for the lulz
• You’re an attention whore
• You’re actually a serious artist

If you’re here for bullet #1, congrats! You’ll probably get the most fun out of dA. Consequently though, your behavior will most likely get you permabanned before long. Trolls are often short lived here and go out in one big burst of flames before the inevitable banhammering falls. You can avoid it by being a subtle wit-slinger, but this guide assumes that most of our readers don’t have attention spans long enough for this.

If you’re here for bullet #2, then this guide will still be useful to you! If you simply ignore our trolling instructions and follow every letter of the whoring instructions, whoredom is assured. In a few weeks you could even be as popular as Snapesnogger or Bleedman! You may become a target for our friends above in bullet #1, but this is an all purpose guide and we will help all of our target audience for all occasions, just because we’re whores like you! Be aware that all this whoring WILL come at the cost of your immortal soul, but this guide assumes that most of our readers don’t give a shit about that.

If you’re here for bullet #3, then excuse us whilst we LAUGH OUR ASSES OFF! Seriously. The only real artists here are lost in a sea of literally tens of thousands of shitty anime fanartists, and unless you give in and go for bullets #1, #2, or both, then you’re doomed to the same fate. If you don’t care, then this guide is obviously not for you, so GTFO.

Now then, the first and most important thing to remember is that Pageviews equals liquid sex. Srsly. Pageviews are the direct equivalent to attention, which everybody knows is the main currency of the internets (besides paypal monies). Who gives a shit if it’s positive or negative, attention is attention, amirite? This is mostly correct until you get into the comments arena.

Comments and faves are quite possibly the only other numbers on deviantart that could be as or more important than pageviews. The catch? Some people use comments to send you retarded stuff like chain-letters or the ever-fabled ‘constructive critique’. Your average Bullet #1 user won’t give a damn, and may even like them since it’s another excuse to dish out the lulz. But your average whore should immediately take every single harsh comment as a personal attack against their integrity and humanity. This is why we have the comment hiding feature.

So, now that we’ve got the most basic of the important information away, let’s start with section 1:

1. Registering a dA account

A. First, you must choose a username. It’s possible to maximize the amount of attention you can receive by choosing something witty, catchy, or unique, but ALL of these decent usernames have been taken by namewasters and idiots looong ago, so go ahead and plug something inane in there. Hell, you might not even be able to find an inane name that;s not taken.
B. Most people say that you should use a password that’s hard to crack and easy to remember. If you’re lazy like me however, those two attributes are mutually exclusive. So, just pick something so short and stupid that nobody would expect a sane person to use it. Something like ‘lol’, or even your own username. You probably won’t be too broken up if someone hacks your account anyway.
C. dA has a field for your ‘Real Name’, which is actually required on sign up. However, only retards and/or people who actually care about popularity put their actual names here. Some kind of snarky remark like “Too cool for you to comprehend” will work just fine instead.
D. E-mail address. If you don’t have one, why are you even here on the internet reading this? GTFO.
E. Retype E-mail address. The dA admins are trying to filter out the lazy lardasses who don’t type too much. Defeat them with copy+paste.
F. Gender: Unless you’re going to be crossplaying here, there’s no real reason to fudge it.
G. Birthday: Hey, it’s an excuse to ask people to make you giftart.
H. Country: Whatever you input here, it’s still your solemn duty to act arrogant and prideful about it.
I. Choosing a subscription: Helpful only if you don’t know how to setup your browser to block ads. Or if you’re a status whore who actually cares about that silly little symbol next to your username.
J. The DeviantArt Newsletter. Honestly, does anyone ever actually subscribe to this?
K. Terms of Service and Ettiquette policy. As you can probably guess, the ToS has a severe case of tl;dr, so just check these and move on. Besides, that’s what lurking more is for, right?
L. There will now be a whopping great intermission for e-mail verification. Be sure to check out all of dA’s pretty ads whilst waiting for the verification e-mail to crawl its way into your inbox!

2. Your dA account and you!

Once you’ve finished registration, it’s time to get your account ready for (mis)use. First, go to the ‘Edit Profile’ page to trick out your userpage. We start with the ‘Identity’ Tab

A. First things first, you need to get yourself an avatar, because, obviously, anyone who doesn’t have one is THE looser n00b. You can get one through any number of different means. You can beg on the forums or in the chatrooms for someone to make you one, you can google-rip an image and crop it to 50x50, or you can whip out the good-old MSPaint and homebrew a stick figure of some sort. (Extra points for using epic fail guy or optimized gif dude!) But whatever method you choose, be sure it either flashes for inducing seizures or contains excessive amounts of titties.
B. Your comment signature is a vital venue for sharing your brilliant wit with the world, so be sure to put some kind of lulzworthy quip in here. If you don’t have any wit though, a blunt advertising link to your own page will work just as well.
C. Author tags are only for those who actually have enough time to write poetry/prose and submit it to dA, so you can pretty much skip it. If you ARE going to actually submit something written, another google-ripped cropped image will work too.

Next, the ‘User Page Display’ tab.

A. To avoid the inevitable hate mails or annoying spam that’ll come your way, you can put in an alternate e-mail address to display on your page. One of the few useful options on this tab.
B. Deviant Type: Pick anything you want, all the good ones are reserved for the admins anyway.
C. Website URL: If you actually own a website, you can use this for some serious pimpage. If not, you can torture your friends by linking to Goatse!
D. Website Button: If you do own a website, you probably have a button to use here too. If you’re going with the Goatse option, be sure to pick an image that’s all innocent looking!
E. Webcam URL: Pick a snarky image, upload it to photobucket, and put the url to it here. Or, ignore it if you’re too lazy.
F. ICQ, AIM, MSN & YIM: Only fill these out if you’re willing to deal with the twits who’ll inevitably spam you with “OMG MAEK ME FREE ARTZ PLZ” Alternatively, put in the screennames of one of your friends to redirect said spam for bonus lulz!
G. Desktop screenshot: Dump a ripped anime photo onto your desktop, throw in billions of shortcuts, screenshot, upload, use.
H. DeviantID: Use this to show off your likes, dislikes, or just how fucking awesome you are.
I. Featured deviation: Use whichever deviation you think needs a little extra pimpage. Like this guide!
J. Make wishlist public: FUCK YEAH! Free stuff is always a plus.
K. Make favorites random: Who gives a crap anyways?
L. Current age: Probably needs to be convincing if you want to leech free gift art from people for your ‘birthday’.
M. The rest of the stuff is useless favorite fields. Great time waster if you’re bored or a whore.

Go ahead and set ALL your deviations to active in the devmobile tab too. Doesn’t matter how shitty they are.

You can ignore the settings page completely. The GPS Co-ordinates option used to be useful for finding what deviants are nearby for stalking and pranking purposes, but now you don’t even see how close they are anymore.

3. Submitting art to dA

Now that you’ve got your page ready, it’s time to post some art! Remember that if you try to rush into community interaction (flaming) without posting any of your own art, the community will simply lol and mock you.

‘What kind of art should I post?’ You might ask. Well, the main thing to remember when you’re submitting art to dA is that people probably won’t pay attention to it unless you figure out a way to make it stand out. Thusly, it’s preferable to submit deviations of these types to generate the most attention:

• Anime
• Nudes
• Self-injury (cutting/blood, etc.)
• Fanart
• Cute animals (kittens and puppies ftw!)
• Any kind of Yaoi

Combos of any of the above are especially hard-hitting. Put all of them together in one piece and you’ve got a real winner!

So now that you’ve got some art, let’s go through the submission process:

A. Title: Also needs to be eye catching. Be sure to adorn it with plenty of useless symbols! . . . : : : ~ RoXaS iS lOvE ~ : : : . . .  is a good example of how your title should look.
B. Category: Placing your deviation in the wrong category is a good way to attract an admin banhammer, but what are the odds that one of the three active admins will find you in a sea of literally MILLIONS of other deviations? The benefit obviously outweighs the risk here when you consider the extra attention you could garner by placing it in the wrong category. Just make sure you don’t accidentally put it in a category that no-one ever looks at!
C. Add a file: DUH.
D. Artist’s Comments: Anything from “Ooooh isn’t he kawaaaiii??! ~^____________________________^~” to just “…” will work here. But don’t waste time typing anything meaningful though, it’s not worth the time.
E. Keywords: This is where you really have to go to town. Think of as many popular anime character names as possible and put them here. Trust me, this is very important.
F. Be sure to set your art to ‘critique discouraged’, you don’t want people flaming your art do you? It’d take too much (by that I mean any) work and effort to actually improve your art.
G. Choosing a liscence: No matter which one you pick, someone is still bound to steal your art, so don’t bother.
H. And once more, click the checkmarks on the ToS and Ettiquette, or else suffer the wrath of the tl;dr.

4. Your dA Journal

The journal is another important aspect of your dA account. If you’re treading the path of the whore, you can use it to keep in contact with your fanbase’s hive mind and implant any suggestions into it that you might wish.  This is a great way to garner attention and lulz for yourself with little to no effort, provided you have a decent amount of watchers. Some great topics for a journal entry include:

• Pretending that you’re going to leave dA forever, and then coming back a week later. If you have a decent amount of watchers, they’ll fawn and beg and cry over you until you get back
• Express some extremely controversial opinions. Topics like “GAYS ARE FAGS” might even propel your journal to the top of the today page if enough people notice it.
• Call out the name of one or more deviants who hurt your feelings. The infraction against you can be anything from art theft to a snippy remark they made on one of your crappy anime pictures. Your watchers will form an angry mob, complete with torches and pitchforks, and proceed to lynch the meanie in the most violent way possible.
• Pretending a family member/pet/close friend just died. If you really emo it up, your friends might make you even more gift art.
• Pretending to commit suicide: Also known as permabanning yourself IRL, only do this if you’re sure your friends won’t be pissed off, or if you don’t plan to come back to dA. This is by far the best way to get attention.

For more community whoring points, be sure to participate in every single retarded ‘tag’ or quiz journal that you see, regardless of whether you got tagged or not. This will impress your fans and increase your ‘zomg I am the popular’ factor.

On submitting a journal:

A. Subject: Please god, don’t tell me you don’t know how to do this.
B. Entry: See above.
C. Mood icon: God you must be dumb if you don’t know this.
D. CSS: This only works if you’re a subscriber. Go and beg for the code from people on the forums/chatroom just like you did for your avatar. Barring that, go find one of those people that give away CSS and get it from them. Trust me, it’s waaay too much work otherwise.
E. The extra-whorey bits:
a. Journal stamps: If you support every fucking fandom in existence, as well as every user and their moms, you can get stamps for all of it! Just use the :thumb#: code with the number of the stamp deviation and add every fucking stamp you can find. If people have a hard time loading the page because of their lousy dialup being unable to load all the images, then you have another excuse to lol at them and act superior.
b. Friend/club icons: The same basic premise as stamps, except you’re going to be whoring out the avatars of all ur buds and clubs using the :devusername: feature. Combined with thousands of stamps, this has the potential to cause some serious browser raep.
c. Assorted images: For a good example, look up the dA user named pr0stsh0cker (scalie alert!) and check out his journal. Then, deck out your own journal in a similar way. Combined with stamps and icons, now we’re heading into major browser assraep territory.
d. Lists: For bonus points, append your journal entry with ever manner of list you can think of. Here’s a list of lists you can list:
i. To-do list
ii. A list of your characters
1. Subset list of your characters’ vices
a. Subset descriptions of each vice and their origins
iii. A list of your likes and dislikes
iv. A list of your phobias
v. A list of all your fandoms
vi. A list of your favorite shippings/parodies from these fandoms
vii. A list of things you still need to list
e. A last.fm chart: If you wanna be able to brag about how your taste in music is better than everyone else’s, then sign up at last.fm and install the audioscrobbler into your media player. When people comment on how much your music sucks, then flame and block them.
f. Other random shit: Be innovative in your whoring and/or flaming techniques! You may just end up creating your own journal fad, and that would mean assloads of shiny new pageviews!

5. dAmn

dAmn, AKA the deviantArtmessagingnetwork, is a series of tubes…err…IRC-like chatrooms where you can experience every aspect of dA’s glorious septic tank of a culture. At any given time, it’s full of the following kinds of people:

• Easily pissed off admins and operators
• Elitist snobby regulars
• Idiotic n00bs
• Unhealthily obsessive Roleplayers
• Narutards (mostly a subset of the RPers)
• Inuyasha-tards (see above)
• Vampire/werewolf wanabes
• Otherkin (furries) / Otakukin / whatchamacallitkin
• Spammers

It’s not uncommon to see people who are combinations of the above.

dA usually has a few select chatrooms which are designated as ‘Featured’. The only difference is that they’re stickied to the top of the page and some of them can be actually useful. Some examples of Featured rooms include:

A. #devart: Usually has 50+ random users who talk about random useless crap. It’s usually so overcrowded that you won’t have time to read a single line of text before it disappears
B. #seniors: You’ll never get in here, so don’t bother
C. #DAUnderworld: For vampire obsessed RP Whores, avoid like the plague otherwise
D. #help: Actually useful. If you have questions about dA, go here.
E. #MNAdmin: If you’ve been trolling you’d better stay the fuck out of here.
F. #h3lp: Technically a redundant and therefore useless room. Go here if #help is being retarded.
G. #PhotoshopTechniques: The penniless common man can’t afford photoshop, so this room is useless to you too probably
H. #CSShelp: Prime target for all your “gimme css plz” comments

#Thumbshare used to be a featured chat as well, but the sheer level of whoring in there made it uninhabitable for human life. It’s also a pivotal place for whoring your own works though, so grab your environmental suit, a handful of thumbnail codes to your own deviations, and get to spamming!

Here are some other notable non-featured rooms:

A. #photographers: Spam your photos, ask endless camera questions, and whine about how nasty processing chemicals smell here
B. #realcritique: You didn’t come here for critique, you came here to have people kiss your ass! Therefore, avoid this room at all costs.
C. #IdleRPG: A bubbling cesspool of RPWhores. Don’t you dare think about going in if you just want idle chitchat or you’ll be eaten alive
D. #BotDom: The room where the machines are planning their eventual conquest over humanity. Enter this room and you run the risk of being roboticized.
E. #dAPensioners: Are you a bitter old fart? Then this is the place for you!
F. #Fuck: The researchers we sent to this room to investigate it never returned. Better not risk it.
G. #ClownTown: Regulars of this town would swear on a stack of bibbles that $lolly’s ass tastes just like candy! Whether it’s chocolate we didn’t dare ask.
H. #SexHell: The room’s description is “Banana banana fee fi fo fana”, do we really need to say more?
I. #Forum: The little wooden treehouse where all the resident elitists from the forums hang out. No doubt with a wooden sign that reads “No loosers” in cutesy backwards letters.
J. #GayDeviants: No description needed.
K. #Trivia: The place where nerds flaunt their useless facts and bits of trivia for the purpose of inflating their e-penises.
L. #Fun4fun: We herd that they liek mudkipz, so we decided not to investigate for the sake of our own sanity.

Feel free to whore yourself in all of them, but don’t be surprised when the banhammer comes tumbling down. In any case though, much lulz are assured and you’re guaranteed to get hundreds of pageviews.

6. The Forums

This by far the most tl;dr section of the guide. Be warned!

If you thought that chatrooms were jam-packed with whoring and fun, then you obviously haven’t visited the dA forums before! There’s a board for fucking everything here, so be sure to start checking them out!

A. DeviantArt Status: More of an announcement board for the admins to brag about all the bugs they fixed. You can’t post in here, so don’t bother.
B. Advertising Status: Same as before, except about the site’s ads. Anyone with half a ‘net brain blocked these ads anyway.
C. Deviants: The real bread and butter of the forums. Here’s what you can expect here:
a. “Hay guyz what superpower would you have?”
b. *Insert sexual innuendo and flirty emote here, lol*
c. Forum whore ass kissing
d. Admin ass kissing
e. General ass kissing
f. “What’s your favorite X” threads, over and over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over.
g. Hypothetical situation threads, almost as much as ‘your favorite x’ threads.
h. Word game threads with literally hundreds of pages of replies
i. ‘I’m a _____’ threads
j. Stupid noobs posting threads that belong in other forums
k. A few creative or intelligent threads thrown in here and there for flavor
l. Any other incarnations of the drama llama you can think of

Be sure to contribute as well to the tired clichefests that happen here every day. If you whore yourself enough here, you’re sure to get people to look at your page.
D. Beta Tester Feedback: This is where the beta testers gather to talk about all the bugs that the admins have been ignoring for the last few months. Generally moderated with the force of a howitzer, but poor little non-subscribers can’t post here anyway.
E. dAmn: Filled to the brim with miscategorized threads that are totally lockpwned by the ops. Nobody yet knows what you’re actually supposed to post here.
F. Deviation Thumbshare: The forum incarnation of #Thumbshare, and just as jampacked with whores. You know what to do by now, young padawan.
G. Suggestions: Have you thought of a way to improve dA? Are you excited about having the admins ignore your idea? Then you’ll love this board!
H. Welcome Center: A contender for the most inane, brainless board of them all. If you find endless threads of ‘hi’, ‘im new’, ‘n00b here’, etc entertaining, then be our guest.
I. Beta Tester Discussion: Redundant and pointless. REAL beta testers don’t give a damn about it either.
J. The Prints section: Same as boards above, except people try to talk about (DUH) prints.
K. Art Scene: blah blah blah art blah art blah blah blah art art colored pencils photoshop blah
L. Complaints: If deviants is the bread and butter on the forum, the complaints is the meat in between. You can expect to see the following in complaints:
a. Anime sucks!
b. Fuck you, anime rocks!
c. Digital art isn’t art.
d. Emo sucks
e. The admins suck
f. [Band name] sucks!
g. [movie or tv show name] sucks!
h. N00bs suck
i. Elitists suck
j. Religion sucks
k. Atheism sucks
l. Gays suck
m. Prejudice sucks
n. Dead horse threads suck
o. Stuff that sucks sucks

Why, just posting one single thread in complaints is enough to get your entire recommended weekly dosage of flames! Start a flame war and you’ll be able to see the light it generates from orbit.

M. Deviant Meets: Great place to acquire targets for deviant stalking.
N. Help With Life: The mayonnaise and lettuce of the dA forum sandwich. Here’s what you can expect here:
a. I’m in love with X, but they don’t love me!
b. X loves me, but I don’t love them!
c. The following equation illustrates the current love dodecahedron I’m involved in: V1 x V2 é i j k ù = ê x1 y1 z1ú ë x2 y2 z2û
d. I don’t gots no IRL friends ;_;
e. SHITLOADS UPON SHITLOADS OF FUCKING EMO
f. My parents abused me, waaahh

Trolling the shit out of the emos here can reap truckloads of lulz, but remember that you could attract an angry mob if your target calls you it in their journal. And of course, there’s always the eventual banhammering that comes with prolonged bouts of trolling
O. Politics: This is what you get when you leave the dA forum sandwich in the sun too long. Here’s what you can expect here:
a. Conservatives are bloodthirsty corporate toadies
b. Liberals are totally gay, wimpy, terrorist lovers
c. Europeans are fags
d. Americans are fat, lazy, and retarded
e. ENDLESS Iraq war threads
f. Muslims are brutal killing machines
g. Christians are mindless sheep
h. Atheists are immoral heathens
i. All other religions are either boring or stupid
j. Jewsjewsjews lol
k. Current events, roffle
l. Israel rocks/sucks
m. I support [Name of 2008 presidential candidate]

None of any of the claims made by anyone are supported by evidence, but a few scattered people still try in futility to actually have an intellectual conversation. Then everyone else points and laughs at them before returning to their regularly scheduled flame wars.

P. Praise: The perfect place if you like the taste of ass.
Q. Programming: Besides being another place to panhandle for free CSS and whine about how hard it is to write code, this place is basically a hangout for pasty white technophiles to trade jargon.
R. Projects: omg free art pleese
S. Rip Reporting: Get yer pointin’ fingers ready! IT’S TATTLE TIME!
T. Website Promotion: The #Thumbshare of personal websites. For those of you who actually own one, blast away!
U. Employment section: Yeah right, like YOU’D want to do something as lame as work.
V. Books: The average American doesn’t read books anymore, mainly because of the tl;dr factor. Those who still do gather here and blab about ‘OMG dis book ish awesum’
W. Gaming: This forum is a barren wasteland of scorched earth, continuously scarred and pockmarked from the ongoing bloody console wars. Whatever side you choose, you’d better be prepared to be flamed for it.
a. PS3: 599 USD LOLOLOL
b. Wii: Enjoy your baby games, nintenfags
c. Xbox360: You’re such a brainless corporate tool! More like XBawks amirite?
d. PSP: Enjoy your sucky PS1 ports and 10 minute battery life.
e. DS: Are you still playing Pokemans???
f. Dreamcast: You dirty indie hippie.
X. Movies:  Generally boring and monotonous discussions about which movies rawked and which movies sucked.
Y. Music: LOLOLOL UR BAND SUCKS
Z. Sports: GO [Team name here]
A1. Linux: Lots of people asking dumb linux questions. Actually isn’t full of OS snobbery like most would expect.
B1. MacOS: Same as above, only with Macs.
C1. Windows: Hay goes whats vista like lol?
D1. Software: How do I used this program?
E1. Membership: A cesspool of elitism and dumbassery. We hope you didn’t buy a subscription just to access this board.
F1. Subscribers Thumbshare: Exactly the same as regular thumbshare, except it’s for subscribers only. Honestly, what’s the point?

When starting a forum thread, it’s just as important to remember to pick something interesting as it was to make your art’s content interesting. Of course, by the word ‘interesting’, we mean ANYTHING that will draw sweet, sweet attention to you like flies to honey. It doesn’t matter if the forum whores consider the topic a ‘dead horse’, they don’t matter to you unless you’re trying to kiss up to them.


A. Title: AN IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER WHEN TITLING YOUR THREADS IS THAT THE CAPS LOCK KEY IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL. THIS APPLIES TO ANY THREAD IN ANY BOARD, ALL THE TIME. IT WILL BRING YOU SIGNIFICANT ATTENTION.
B. Thread icon: Depending on the topic of your thread, you can generally match the sentiment with one of the displayed emoticons. Or, if you wanna be badass, always use the same icon all the time. Good candidates include the ‘rolleyes’ emote or the can of spam.
C. Body: Be sure to pepper your thread with multiple emoticons and ‘plz’ icons. Also, remember that spell check is for losers. The speelign eroors aer leeeet.

When replying to threads, USE THE REPLY BUTTON TO REPLY. It’s the little button an inch or two below the person’s avatar. If you don’t do this, your post will wander around the thread and randomly latch itself onto a completely unrelated comment and confuse the shit out of that comment’s owner. Also, your brilliant, stinging sarcasm will miss its intended target, which always results in a little thing we like to call EPIC FAILURE.

For some extra fun, try dabbling in thread necromancy! You can do this in one of two easy ways:

• Create your own thread, and then save a link to it. After anything from five months to two years, go back to the thread and reply to it again if it hasn’t been locked.
• Save a link to somebody else’s thread, do the same thing.

If nobody notices how old the thread is, then you can lol at them all for being unobservant fuckwits from behind the privacy of your glowing computer screen. If someone does notice, then even moar lulz are assured.

7. News

You don’t actually find any actual news in the news section at all. Instead, you can find hundreds of different people holding contests, people pimping their friends’ art, extremely obvious hints on how to use deviantart, and occasionally a few useful articles scattered about. Note you’re more likely to find articles on pet food recalls than actual world events here.

Therefore, this section is basically useless and you can ignore it.

8. The Shoutboard

Although the shoutboard preceded dAmn by multiple years, it is still easy to think of as dAmn’s mentally handicapped bastard child. It’s basically like dAmn, only you need to refresh it every single fuckin’ time you want to see new shouts. It’s ten times moar time consuming than dAmn just because of this, and is just as chock-full of whorey goodness. The real difference between it and dAmn though, is that sometimes there is adequate mod coverage to prevent any real lulz generation or thorough self-plugging here. Thusly, it can be ignored with ease.

9. Misc

A. The Today Page: Here you can find the top ten most commented on journal entries for the day, and any pictures that were commented on or faved during the previous nanosecond. If you go to every single popular journal and reply to the first reply there, you can get yourself quite a lot of attention and pageviews, especially if your comment is controversial!
B. The Shopping Center: Be sure to add every single print here to your wishlist, and perhaps even fav the deviation versions. You’ll get more attention AND people might buy you prints!
C. The Front Page: Do like you did on the today page, go through all the most popular deviations and make some kind of comment on the first reply. Faves are optional, but attention is guaranteed! But avoid commenting on Daily Deviations, even nicely, as this always results in an instant permaban.
D. Random Deviant/Deviation: If you go to random pages and leave comments for several hours straight, you’re guaranteed of having at least a few people notice you!
E. Hiding comments: Hide every single flame you ever get, period. Even if it’s a constructive critique. These people are meanies and don’t deserve your time.