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Everyday we're CV'ingAs a Community Volunteer - I do as much or as little within the community that I feel comfortable doing. We're not pressured to do this and that, we don't even have to give a Daily Deviation every day, we choose how we promote our selected galleries/chats and forums and we're not fixed to any specific rule on how much or how little we do. But I do believe that it's important to share with you just what the community volunteers do and why we do it. More importantly it's so easy to get lost on this site full of many people - and miss out on the awesome that's going on. So I'm going to share with you exactly what the latest awesome is...
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Almost every week since October last year the Community Volunteers have been working hard both independently and as part of small teams to bring You Project Educate.
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Eyes, they say, are the window to the soul. And capturing such a piercing and expressive look in a photograph is a highly sought after skill. The Afghan Girl exhibits suspense, suspicion and a sense of distrust at the person behind the lens, she gives off an air of maturity, a foreboding feeling - a vulnerability behind years of strength. That, is what makes her so captivating.
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With the start of a brand new year, lots of resolutions are set, promises made and aspirations begun to be aspired to. What are your Photographic hopes and dreams this year? Have you just finished the 365 photography challenge? Or the 52 week Photography challenge? Are you ready to take a break? Or are you just embarking on something like that and are fresh and excited for what it might bring? With that in mind, take a look at a very interesting article from =Eitvys200 it explores the Photography Gallery Records. And why not consider heading over to #deviant365 to begin your 52 week journey of challenges and inspirations?
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Why you feature stolen work?!?!Lately there seem to have been a few myths flying around in particular with regards to how we as Community Volunteers, give Daily Deviations. Many people seem to think that we sit at our desks in dark little rooms and let out evil laughter whilst we purposefully feature stolen work. The dark rooms and laughter - well I can't say yes or no on that one! But I can promise you it's not our intent to give exposure to people who have stolen work. I recently featured a piece of work that turned out to be stolen. However I went into extensive conversations with the artist before I featured it, and with added metadata and dates, it's difficult to know where to draw the line. I've given people the benefit of the doubt before - and it's worked out nicely as their work has been legitimate. Below are some comments I have seen being thrown around the past few days - and hopefully an attempt to bust the myth.
"I thought at least that you people would check to make sure the work was the
PE: Introduction to the Digital Art categoriesHi! Welcome to the Digital Art categories central! The following article is intended to be a quick guide on the Digital Art categories to get you started, most of the descriptions included here came  from past Project Educate articles (so thanks for all the current and past CVs for their indirect help :P) and will include links to more articles if you want a more deep insight of said category, as well as a list of CVs you can send your DD suggestions to. (As of December 2012, for the updated list of current volunteers you can always check this blog)
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Spirit Day 2012"Ultimately, I want Spirit Day to make just one person feel little bit better about his or herself, to feel safe enough in their own skin and to be proud of who they are" - Brittany McMillan
In memory of the young LGBT people who lost their lives to suicide, Brittany encouraged her friends to wear purple on a day in October -- a day that came to be known as Spirit Day. Since then, GLAAD has helped turn Spirit Day into a global event that inspires millions of individuals, celebrities, TV personalities, media outlets, companies and schools to wear purple in a stand against bullying.
While Spirit Day does focus on the LGBT community, I believe that it's anti-bullying message is relevant to every community.  It only get's better, if we take the pledge to make it so. 
Practice compassion and understanding, and treat others how you would like to be treated and we can make a difference. 
Show your support for this anti-bullying me
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I've been reflecting on the year and like many, with some focus on the unimaginable events of the last few weeks. Specifically, the shooting in Newtown.  I know that it's "human nature" to want to find
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`Itti Dec 9, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
If people think that it means customised works, perhaps a gallery rename is in order?
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^ValaSedai Dec 9, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Hm that's an interesting thought but it would be hard to find something that explains what it is for without this kind of ambiguity...I'm definitely gonna think more about this. :D
I also believe though that having the gallery descriptions displayed more visibly, also when browsing and not just when submitting, could already help a lot. :nod:
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`DomiSM Dec 5, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
:clap: Well said, excellent advice :D
It can sometimes be difficult to choose the best category, as a lot of work could fall into many and still be right...but it only takes a minute to choose and make sure it's in the right place :)
I'm sure all of the current CVs will appreciate your taking the time to write this, and hopefully everyone will read it! :la:
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^ValaSedai Dec 5, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Agreed, there's a whole lot of grey zones with a lot of works. :)

I hope so too. ^^
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`tiganusi Dec 5, 2012  Professional
Wait up—since when go CVs move miscats, apart from glaringly obvious ones? For the longest time, the stock line was "We err on the side of the artist, so if they're putting their work there, there's a reason for it."

If I wrote fan fic, and wanted it to focus on the craft of the writing, I'd submit it to lit; if I wanted it to focus on the fandom and my interpretation of the characters, I'd put it in fanfiction.
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^ValaSedai Dec 5, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Nothing has changed about that, if it's in the same parent category we should only move it if it's glaringly wrong and well if it's even in the wrong parent category then it's kinda strongly misplaced by default.
And if we want to feature something that isn't in the right gallery as a DD we would have to move it first for instance.

Especially fan art (and fan fics) are grey zones though. As are some other categories of course but I feel fan art works are the best example for something that cannot be that easily categorized and would have to be treated on a case to case basis. I'm not gonna say too much though, I'll leave that up to the fan art CVs. ^^
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`tiganusi Dec 5, 2012  Professional
Okay, good—just making sure nothing changed without me paying attention :P

I DDed hella miscats, but photography never really lent itself to a gallery structure, it was more... various tags that could apply, type deal.
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^ValaSedai Dec 5, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Nope, I even made sure before writing this. ^^

Yeah, if it's within the photography gallery, at least it's still somewhat alright, with my gallery I got the whole Pixel mix up going on. :nuu:
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=eindraa Dec 5, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
As many times as I want to suggest u icons but most of them are in the pixel category. And same goes for M/A. Fanart that's in the M/A Category or Cartoons and Comics really bugs me. But I guess I will let the artist know nex time
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^ValaSedai Dec 5, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
If you find icons in the pixel gallery, please suggest them anyway because I can take care of the miscat and move it to the right category before featuring it. :nod:
A short notification would be nice ofc so I don't overlook it. ^^
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