Encouraging New Deviant Engagement

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Receiving comments on your deviations can be one of the most rewarding aspects of DeviantArt. The moment you make the decision to share your art with the world, you're ready to connect with kindred spirits, hear their tips, and share feedback of your own.  The cycle is rewarding for each and every participant.

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Starting today, we’re running a few experiments that aim to bring attention to new and undiscovered deviants on DeviantArt.  When such a deviant submits a deviation, he or she will be shown suggested deviations and prompted to leave a comment.  The purpose of this project is to create bonds between new deviants and help people find similar artists to grow with.

This feature is experimental, and we’re testing to see how something like this helps deviants grow as an artist and meet new people.  



Share your thoughts!

  1. Have you been prompted to comment on deviations from fellow deviants?
  2. If so, what do you think about the experience?
  3. How could it be improved?
  4. Do you have other ideas for encouraging deviant engagement? 


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Regarding 4: A better algorithm for the groups directory where inactive groups (of several years) are not shown on the front page of search results - for starters.

People join groups for many reasons - to interact with others, give and get comments, etc. - and it doesn't do any good for the members or DeviantArt as a community if the groups are not active, but are still shown as the first results on the page. Rather than dividing the community between inactive groups, it makes more sense to unite members in an active group - that's what active groups are for.

Many articles posted through HQ this year have talked about community, interaction, deviant engagement, etc. yet we still seem to be blind to the fact that active groups pave the way for this. Active groups do everything that you describe in this journal, whether it's receiving comments on your deviations, connecting with kindred spirits, sharing feedback, bringing attention to new and undiscovered deviants, creating bonds between new deviants, helping people find similar artists to grow with, etc.

I guess it makes more sense that DeviantArt would rather shoot themselves in the foot. :shrug: