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The CDC saga
9 years ago
Really sick of the Character Design Challenge on facebook. First I post an image for their challenge which was entirely withing the rules and guidelines of the community. It was uploaded for five minutes then deleted. Then they closed off all comments on the thread because 'Too many people were asking why their submissions weren't accepted.' btw, this group is supposed to be for FUN and for anyone to join. It is supposed to be a friendly community.
Next, not only is my artwork not good enough for them, despite being within all their posted guidelines (its this btw: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/21748489/ ) Their winning submission, judges choice, goes against a LOT of their rules. The submission has no body or hind legs, is covered up with smoke, and has a detailed background. you can see the image on their twitter: https://twitter.com/CDReferences/st.....17916446031872.
First of all, I complimented the artist and told them it was a great work. But I sad the judges should be more consistent with rules. Why was my submissions not good enough to enter but this one was? All I wanted was equality. The owner of the group said I was attacking him with hatespeech. I would never do that! and then he said it's because of people like me the group will probably disband unless people give him money on patreon. And then he quotes Miyazaki for no reason. The reason I am paraphrasing is because I WAS BANNED from the facebook group WITH NO WARNING.
SO I can't pull up the quote for you. I didn't even know because there was NO WARNING WHATSOEVER, even though I said nothing wrong and a lot of people agreed with me and gave me thumbs up on my comments. Are those people banned too?
So I put in a dollar to the patreon and asked why I was banned. No response for a week. (when other people were getting responses in minutes.) So after a week of this I responded 'wow so you're not going to help me ? just take my money?' Their response? A SECOND BAN. FOR HATESPEECH.
TL;DR the owner of CDC is NOT interested in being a FUN community to help artists. Instead of engaging in dialogue he would rather ban anyone who even politely questions him.
The result on my self esteem has been extremely negative. I keep thinking to myself, why is my art not good enough? What did I do wrong? I am NOT a confrontational person. All I wanted to know is, what is wrong with my art? The more and more i got snubbed, the more frustrated I became.
The character designs were to promote my webcomic. Now my webcomic is on permanent hiatus and I cant even bear to look at it as I just think to myself, 'no one will read this. Im just a piece of crap.'
All I want is an answer...
Next, not only is my artwork not good enough for them, despite being within all their posted guidelines (its this btw: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/21748489/ ) Their winning submission, judges choice, goes against a LOT of their rules. The submission has no body or hind legs, is covered up with smoke, and has a detailed background. you can see the image on their twitter: https://twitter.com/CDReferences/st.....17916446031872.
First of all, I complimented the artist and told them it was a great work. But I sad the judges should be more consistent with rules. Why was my submissions not good enough to enter but this one was? All I wanted was equality. The owner of the group said I was attacking him with hatespeech. I would never do that! and then he said it's because of people like me the group will probably disband unless people give him money on patreon. And then he quotes Miyazaki for no reason. The reason I am paraphrasing is because I WAS BANNED from the facebook group WITH NO WARNING.
SO I can't pull up the quote for you. I didn't even know because there was NO WARNING WHATSOEVER, even though I said nothing wrong and a lot of people agreed with me and gave me thumbs up on my comments. Are those people banned too?
So I put in a dollar to the patreon and asked why I was banned. No response for a week. (when other people were getting responses in minutes.) So after a week of this I responded 'wow so you're not going to help me ? just take my money?' Their response? A SECOND BAN. FOR HATESPEECH.
TL;DR the owner of CDC is NOT interested in being a FUN community to help artists. Instead of engaging in dialogue he would rather ban anyone who even politely questions him.
The result on my self esteem has been extremely negative. I keep thinking to myself, why is my art not good enough? What did I do wrong? I am NOT a confrontational person. All I wanted to know is, what is wrong with my art? The more and more i got snubbed, the more frustrated I became.
The character designs were to promote my webcomic. Now my webcomic is on permanent hiatus and I cant even bear to look at it as I just think to myself, 'no one will read this. Im just a piece of crap.'
All I want is an answer...
This is none of my business but you did ask for input.