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This afternoon, I have learned that DA has de-activated my account after some four years. I cannot imagine what transgression I have committed. I have posted no objectionable images; in fact, I haven't submitted a single deviation in over two months. My most recent action at DA was to send a llama badge to a deviant who liked a comment I made on an image submitted by schopenhauer1788. My comment was in absolute agreement with the point schopenhauer1788 had made when submitting the deviation. In fact, my comments on deviations other members submit are invariably positive (after all, I just ignore what I don't like). What's more, I can find no handy way of submitting a help request. There seems to be no convenient way to make inquiries.
Addendum: Now that I stop to think about it, I suppose a de-activated account isn't allowed to submit a help request. It took no more than 24 hours to figure that out!
I've seen this happen to others. Several times I read of DA members being de-activated for no discernible reason. Now the very same has happened to me. Yipes!
Edited by user Monday, February 17, 2025 3:24:44 PM(UTC)
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I had my page banner there pulled once for a copyright violation. Funny thing, as everything single asset in the scene was either purchased from Daz or made by myself.
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And I have now discovered that my account has been de-activated for the last 21 days, meaning that it cannot be re-activated. Apprently, I can create a new account, but what on earth was offensive about the former one?
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Dig this! Having de-activated my account a week ago, DA is today sending me email encouraging me to upgrade the account to core membership at half-price! Yipes!
   
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My account at DA was deactivated with absolutely no warning. I had a lot of images lost as I was using DA store them temporarily. The flash drive I had them on, was damaged and doesn’t work anymore…
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Originally Posted by: Dodger3742x  My account at DA was deactivated with absolutely no warning. I had a lot of images lost as I was using DA store them temporarily. The flash drive I had them on, was damaged and doesn’t work anymore…
Yup! I'm not surprised. I'm sure you have no idea what you did that was so monstrous. Live long and render
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Well….i sort of do know what I did. The loss of so many images was a shocker. I tried recovering the lost files on the thumb drive. I saved a few and found others at other web locations, but I still lost a lot….
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At the risk of ...what the heck is DA? If you meant the Daz Studio market place then trust me: the mods here are strict (!), but not that kind of oppressive. Don't link, be sincere, call it for what it is.
Daz Studio market place? It's a thing, Renderotica is a competitor.. but also professional enough to realize that.. you can't silence everything. Nor should you.. don't link directly, mention in seriousness vs. spam.. and you should be alright.
If this IS about Daz.... yah, I can relate. I saw my account put on "probation" after I called out Daz on removing their NFT scam... errr: business opportunity of course (the previous comments are courtesy of me, myself and I). Because we all know NFT's aren't a scam which solely befit the ones who or which advertise for them. "Gee whiz.. I wonder why CGBytes never went this whippersnapper way y'all!".
Probably because they also might think this is a scam?
errrr..... of course its... not?
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Originally Posted by: ZenMaster3D
At the risk of ...what the heck is DA? If you meant the Daz Studio market place then trust me: the mods here are strict (!), but not that kind of oppressive. Don't link, be sincere, call it for what it is.
Daz Studio market place? It's a thing, Renderotica is a competitor.. but also professional enough to realize that.. you can't silence everything. Nor should you.. don't link directly, mention in seriousness vs. spam.. and you should be alright.
If this IS about Daz.... yah, I can relate. I saw my account put on "probation" after I called out Daz on removing their NFT scam... errr: business opportunity of course (the previous comments are courtesy of me, myself and I). Because we all know NFT's aren't a scam which solely befit the ones who or which advertise for them. "Gee whiz.. I wonder why CGBytes never went this whippersnapper way y'all!".
Probably because they also might think this is a scam?
errrr..... of course its... not?
With the initials DA and the mention of Core membership it would seem they are talking about DeviantArt.
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Get this! DA de-activated my account months ago. Recently, with a upgraded PC and a new username and email address, I decided to register anew at DA with a new account. This evening, on a mere whim and under the new username, I searched there for my supposedly de-activated account/gallery. And there it was, readily accessible with all of the renders I posted in the long ago! I haven't tried to log in under the old username, having long ago forgot the password, but I had presumed that a de-activated account would be inaccessible to all deviants forever. Edited by user Thursday, July 24, 2025 10:06:36 PM(UTC)
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Just had trouble this evening logging into my account.. Dont know whats going on .. one big circle jerk .. cannot gain acess. Ive sent them an e-mail
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It occurs to me now that DA frequently sent me a PM commenting that I had been noticed as an active member in the community and might like to befriend or comment on the deviations submitted by another member. I always ignored these PMs, which were many and frankly annoying. Could my lack of cooperation have been the reason I was de-activated? I suppose I'l never know. Live long and render
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