I'm deeply sorry for this, because of several mistakes I made in the journal, I had to make a set of corrections. I corrected a few syntax errors and added missing words or phrases I forgot I intended to!

Spread this review; highlight it in your journal entries, conferences, organizations, everywhere you can. Deviantart needs to enforce etiquette policy, or this site will collapse! The deviantART team must listen to us.

I feel SterlingKato has pointed out some good tips that you fail to look at:

Anyone who has a brain in his head can realize that when deviantART says: "Art theft is stealing a painting off-the-wall" is a cheap way of explaining our problem; you cannot technically steal it if you didn't touch it. They tried to be funny, but they don't consider digital media as an artwork. You cannot blame people for thinking such a conclusion either. What with all the wool does staff is trying to stuff in our eye sockets over the last few years, it makes it hard to take it seriously.

Their goal was true; they wanted to make people aware of what copyright law means and those people throwing around the term "art theft" falsely. The condescending nonsense of nomenclature within the article doesn't address the problem. It simply states to protect our profession; the operators and their team are no longer responsible for their actions. People are furious about the administrator's irresponsibility in doing their job to make their site safe and secure for all deviantART users.

The administration doesn't do its job well; they praise how they do everything in their power to make their site safe for everyone. When we report them our problems, they tell us to ignore it. They don't realize that ignoring doesn't solve the problem. They play an Administrator; people are angry because the administration treats their problems as if they were a game. They don't understand that a job of an Administrator is serious. People are angry at the way the Administration performs, in the way they treat our problems and how they behave towards us.

I'm annoyed about your direction, your lack of focus on key areas and your lack of communication. This communication used to be famous. There were days when you could report pedophiles, and you were 100% sure the Administration would expel pedophiles and pedophile protectors. After the comprehensive changes you made, this community began to die, pedophiles, cyber bullies, Internet trolls, spammers, young deviants, R34 art; pedophile protectors. Such as Ach-TheNUTS mercilessly flood this community every day with their statuses and personal halls of shame and embarrassment. You dismissed many Administrators who wanted to help, who were willing to listen to our problems. I will name few of them: kozispoon, y2jenn, godofodd, DEVlANT, dxd, fourteenthstar. Members who cared about this communication, members who were willing to help, listen to, and solve our problems. Members who made this site more famous than ever, members, who built the core of the community, lost their job overnight. You sold it all, for the cheap team of attorneys and the expensive membership you nominated into the CORE. You have no idea what is happening to this site because the money that you're receiving every day blinded you. You dismissed many incredible operators for the team of jokers who are calling themselves the team of lawyers. You lock-down on third-party copyright reporting and made the reporting harder than you should.

Communication (Us) is not happy;

Communication (The team of CEO and communityops) didn't hear us, communication didn't hear our voice;

"Protect yourself!"-- What is your business then? We place a watermark on our illustrations in the hope that we will protect ourselves in this way from thieves who are trying to gain profits by selling the works they stole from us. When we collect all evidence against the lawbreaker, what do you do? Send us a response that you previously copied and saved to Microsoft Office document, if you call that professional, then I pity you.

“Keep in mind that everything anyone does will be right if it's also decent and honest, even if some rule of law or contract technically broken.”

Seriously, you wrote that? No wonder this site loses respect from us and has an article on Encyclopedia Dramatica and YouTube videos about how operators behave to us! Can I use that for my defense in court next time?

“Your Honor, I raised a sick house pet to the animal hospital. Decent, honest, and right, I was, so I wasn't breaking the law when I was speeding at 90 mph.”

Apples and Oranges, no, you cannot choose what laws you want to obey because your actions are "right" by your moral standards. You need to send me a map to the Utopian society you live in because I want to move there.

“The U.S. laws have weak protection.”

That statement doesn't make sense; just a quick search by Net Act, The Berne Convention, TRIPS, Copyright Act, TTP, TTIP, and DMCA. My favorite is the Net Act. You don't have to have a financial plan to violate copyright. That blows the whole “if it's not causing financial damage” argument out of the water.

I don't know how much more mistaken “facts” your the art thief discussion magazine has. I noticed the two most glaring false statements and gave up reading I should be a little shocked, but I'm not. Copyright violations run unchecked across deviantART, not to mention pornography, spam, abuse, pedophilia, trolling, pedophilia defense, and harassment. [You ignore that problem that we have here for last 6-7 years. I have no idea who hired you, but you obviously don't know anything about our problem, you're treating that as a joke.]

“Moral Rights” is a load of bullshit and don't worth two cents. You have headquarters located in the United States people. You've seen our politics and what our politicians do (save Bernie Sanders, but that is a different rant for a different time). We need hard-set standards to protect our pieces.

“Art theft is taking a painting from a wall.” — What, are you joking? Tell me this is a late April Fools joke. Theft is the removal of the property from the original owner without granting permission from the copyright holder. -- This applies to art too physical or none. The art that someone makes belongs to them and is by no means is that ownership void by posting it publicly.

Example: I parked my automobile on the street does it mean someone can just hop in and take it for a spin? No, because I'm the owner of an auto, not you, and anyone who dares to take something that is my property, will face fatal consequences for it. -- “It was just sitting there; your name isn't on it!”
"Online ≠ Mine."

"Try to resolve disputes by conversation!" A typical case that we see on the Internet every day, and that is an argument of who is right and who isn't. Here's the biggest problem, thieves don't care about copyright; they came here to steal someone else's property. They don't care if you're calm or not, they came here to make chaos and problems. May I ask you something? If somebody burns your house, kidnaps your kid, or steals your car, will you remain calm, or will you take the ax and kill the one who made your life worse? I can bet that 99% of them would opt for the force, then for argument. When someone steals something from you; there is no discussion, there is no tolerance; actions against the violators of the law must be taken over. There is no democracy when someone violates the rule or the law. Rules are rules, and you must respect them. You ignore the rules; you either end in prison or end in a mental asylum because you make a difference in society. You give a bad example to others; you are a bad model, you are a bad example to other people. Artistic thieves steal illustrations from us because they know the Administration doesn't care about copyright, not to mention that they don't care about the problems we have with the violators of the rules.

Discussions happen every day but rarely get better. — The first thing the administration has told us to do is report the problems we have with the user. If the organization wants us to report them our problems, why the organization isn't adhering to it? Why the administration marks our issues as a personal conflict? Must I become a part of their team to get their protection?

I'm not sure what are you trying to do here, but it seems like you're trying to preserve any connection with the rules that you wrote. You demand from us to respect your rules. If we must uphold the rules and laws that, you have written, why aren't you sticking to them? Why are you continuing to ignore our problems?

We sought a stricter report. -- We got a bloody new layout.
We asked for a more cooperative report team who will do their job than dance around it. -- We got a new message titled as NOTIFICATIONS.
We sought a safer place for our creation. -- We got the team who post garbage like “the art robbery discussion.”
We asked them to low the prices of subscriptions. -- They increase the prices of subscriptions and rename it into the CORE.

Copyright Act applies only to illustrations protected by copyright, AKA: Illustrations from companies and corporations that have purchased a license for the official and full ownership of that work.
~NinjaKato

Robbery, by definition, is -- “The action or crime of forging.”
Embezzlement, by definition, is -- “Take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.”
Pedophilia, by definition, is -- “A sexual attraction to children.”
Pedophile protector, by definition, is -- “A person who defends pedophilia and children pornography, whenever is fictional or real.”

Grasp it.

You are enabling one case of looting by inferring another. I'll be honest, I read what you wrote, and for the tiny amounts of decent, informative points, there were shocking facts in your journalism. Plenty of us does everything we can to protect our deviations by plastering watermarks and reducing the quality. So, even when it's stolen, it's hard to work with it. Now do your job and stop pinning all the stress on us. -- You have a team for a reason, well you had.

You're here to advise, protect, and watch the members of this site. What is your excuse people, and why you are useless these days? Many of your members are kids who don't know a lot about laws and just want to share their work. Many of them leave deviantART because they cannot stand people stealing their deviations and getting away with it.

Companies protect their work; their IP locations have a watermark on them, so everyone who works with them is safe. Members who have spent over ten years on your site have fed up with the lies you tell them, the way in which you work and the way you behave towards us. You don't own it you're a host. You do not have a question or stake of how, what, and when used, ownership and rights belong to creators. It was always, and it always will be, whenever you like it or not.

-NinjaKato.

TL; DR version:
Follow what you lecture and educate your members (new and old) if you are ever-changing site's rules. Teach your members to respect the rules, to know what you allow and what not. You've upset many people by writing bullshits that don't make any sense, especially about copyright, there are so many mistakes about copyright in your art thief discussion magazine. You don't help people; you don't show them how to follow copyright laws, you just confuse them by making them startled by the law. You refer them to a copyright phobia; you thus make people afraid of any copyright-related movement. Instead of telling them what copyright is, you've complicated our problem by writing a journalism that doesn't have any sense. They don't know what's wrong and what isn't.

Please, don't discuss what robbery; trolling, cyberbullying and harassment are when you cannot interpret the word itself. You're only going to mislead people who may be unaware of the laws and implications of said laws. Making them more prone to steal or even be stolen from through leniency, lack, or sympathy for Academy artists.

I've seen how many people laughed and mocked people who were upset about what the team's lawyer wrote. This behavior is extremely ruthlessly and repulsive. Just as there is a side to agree, there is a side that will be against it; I see plenty of people who are against the article that a team of jokers wrote, an explanation of copyright law do nothing to save the need for some semblance on your site; some sense of care.

About deviantART operators don't do their job; nothing should surprise me. Nor the Government is planning to rule out a site owing to the way operators act towards us. Knowing how in which U.S. laws and U.S. Constitutions are working it can happen.

If DeviantArt doesn't do anything to aid in the investigation, the FBI could delete the site for allowing a pedophile to utilize their services. To groom young women for sexual role-plays this falls under the crimes of sexual harassment of a minor and calling for a minor.

I'm worried about this because the company could be in big trouble for allowing this. However, getting away in which deviantART runs, nothing should amaze us. If this ever happens, the best solution is to save all your work on your computer. Make a folder and store your art if it's possible, as for now, stay safe, which is least you, can do.

deviantART was amazing when I joined on Mar 10, 2012. Now, almost six years later, dA has gone to shit. I miss the old logo. I miss the Premium Membership, the old rules for art theft and other things (not the new rules the team implanted two years ago); I miss the ancient symbols I saw in 2012. I miss the opportunity to choose the mood when writing a journal. There are many old features that deviantART.com has had in the period from 2000 to 2014.

I miss seeing art thieves and other faulty people expelled in less than an hour or a day after I reported them.

I want the old dA back!

#bringbacktheolddA

Administrators, if you are reading this, get on the ball, okay? The inconsistent and lax enforcement of your own anti-porn rules and other policy rules about art thievery is turning this site into a sad, sad joke. We said what we had to say, if you get angry about what we said and you begin to punish us, it will suffice to show how miserable and sorrowful you are. That is why people are angry, instead of getting a sharp policy of behavior on the site, and more stringent measures against copyright infringement; we got a pacifier in our mouths!

deviantART, please communicate to your user base please socialize with us. Listen to us, please. I hope you will make sure that this case never happens again. (Besides, renew your policy on art robbery, harassment, trolling, pedophilia, and pedophilia defense; this is a serious problem that you must solve.)

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." – Frank Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993)

“The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.”
—Plutarch (/ˈpluːtɑːrk/; Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarkhos, Koine Greek: [plǔːtarkʰos]; later named, upon becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Λούκιος Μέστριος Πλούταρχος); c. AD 46 – AD 120)

spyed, start talking to us, start listening to what your members have to say. Start taking stronger measures before it's too late. Open your eyes before the site collapses.