Bugstomping

Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, there are bugs.

Namely, a fair amount of you have been trying to select "Holiday Theme" and keep coming up with Tutorials instead.

This is very likely a bug in groups, BUT I can't diagnose it myself. I need some of you who have tried to submit to Holiday Theme to check your notices and see if your submission notice says "Tutorials" (if you haven't deleted it from your message center).

If you KNOW you picked "Holiday Theme" for sure and it STILL went to Tutorials, send #devBUG a note about it RIGHT NOW. You want it fixed, we gotta get the word to them ASAP.

Also: STOP SENDING US YOUR WHOLE GALLERY, PEOPLE.

JUST SEND IN ONE. AS IN SINGULAR. AS IN 1, UNO, ICHI.

SERIOUSLY, SLOW DOWN AND WAIT A WEEK OR TWO OR SOMETHING.

YOU SUBMIT LIKE WE WILL GO POOF, WHEN WE ARE CLEARLY NOT GOING ANYWHERE.

This is getting to be a bit of an issue and, I swear, I will start booting people who keep flooding us with a ton of their deviations in a day.

Additionally - if you just joined and are confused as to why you can't submit to Featured... You need to read ALL the rules on our stickied blog before trying to submit. Really. Because then you'd know Featured is closed until the 15th of January.

I am also considering how we will be handling submissions after next month. Some of you may remember the alphabet system - it may have to come back. The contributors and I will be discussing our options and then we'll present them on the Big Dialog blog entry.

=TwinEnigma

RELATED -

BEFORE YOU SUBMIT, CHECK THIS LIST:

• Is your deviation a Tutorial - does it teach us something step-by-step? If it isn't and your submission window says Tutorials, STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING.



• Is your deviation related to a Holiday, like New Years? If it isn't and your submission window says Holiday Theme, STOP RIGHT THERE.



• Is your deviation related to one of our Theme Challenges from the Theme Challenge Index? If it isn't and your submission window says Challenge Responses, STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

When you submit to the wrong folder, we REJECT it. When you submit MORE than one image in one sitting, we REJECT all of them except the first one and tell you to WAIT. PLAIN AND SIMPLE.


=TwinEnigma


RELATED PREVIOUS UPDATES OF IMPORT.

All members, listen up!

I have temporarily closed submissions to the "featured" gallery.

We have 300 submissions to approve - at ten a day, that's thirty days of deviations in your inbox.

Holiday Theme, Challenge Responses and Tutorials are UNAFFECTED by this temporary close. You can still submit to those folders. HOWEVER - if your submission to those folders has NOTHING to do with our challenge responses, a holiday or a tutorial, it will be rejected with Falcon Punch speed, understand?

We will re-open submissions to "Featured" on January 15, 2010. As soon as we get 140-150 submissions, we'll shut it down for another month.

In the interim, you can suggest favorites to our favorites section and more types of folders you want to see, such as Contests, Comics, etc. There's tons of stuff to do still and tons of work to be done around here, so stand up and be heard.

=TwinEnigma



Members who submitted to the gallery BEFORE conversion to groups:

I am currently in the process of migrating the old submission entries with the Gallery Migration tool. This tool deletes the old club version and replaces it with your original deviation.

It's going to take a while, since I have to do this one by one. A few of you might notice old deviations popping up in our gallery or old deviations of yours from as far back as 2006 popping up with an UnseenArtists icon on the right side of the Artist's Comments.

Do not panic, it's just the migration tool doing it's thing and it means you don't have to resubmit that image to us. If you don't remember sending us your image or giving us permission to post, remember that we can only migrate images that were already IN our group gallery BEFORE we converted and I'm converting over images that, in some cases, are close to four years old.

However, if you were in the last few "Submission" bundle images, you will have to resubmit your image to us.


=TwinEnigma

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- =TwinEnigma

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