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So...about this Journal/Blog/News merge... 

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6 deviants said Don't particularly like it, but if they won't change it back, I guess I have to live with it
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6 deviants said But, above all, why did dA have a poll if they weren't actually going to listen to the majority anyway?
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5 deviants said HATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATE
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4 deviants said Eh...what are we talking about? (go check out the journal pages then)
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3 deviants said Meh. I don't give a damn.
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No deviants said I like it.

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:icongeneral-ebonrose:
*General-EbonRose Oct 29, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
They had a poll?

I think the new system is sort of buggy, and doesn't make much sense. Hopefully they'll shine it up more as time goes on.
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*Mytherea Oct 29, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
At some point, but you had to be following the dA admin group. It wasn't "publicly" announced. I only found it through a more popular deviant's loud complaint journal.

The part of it that frustrates me is that dA was already a popularity contest. Journals, however, were not. Now, they are with the introduction of favorites and journal stats. It's like the site is rubbing unpopularity in the faces of new/under appreciated artists and pandering to popular artists (most of which, I'm sure, didn't ask for this).
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:icongeneral-ebonrose:
*General-EbonRose Oct 29, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Yea. I feel like news was public stuff, and journals were "private". When I write my journals I'm not really thinking about a wide audience. Mostly they're written for me first, and close friends second.

I always thought it would be cool to be able to :+fav: journals. And I may have said so at some point - but I never really meant it as a serious thing. I think there are a lot of unforeseen consequences to doing that, the popularity thing being one of them. Someone else mentioned the possibility of it meaning less comments. Since people can just :+fav: to show their support or something, they wont bother to say it aloud.

I for one don't plan on :+fav:ing any journals, unless it's something I need to keep track of, like a contest. Or, you know, actual news-type stuff that I used to :+fav:/♥ anyway.
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