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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Nevertheless, great showing of appreciation with this stamp, really nice idea.
1. Firstly, the people in power only think of them in technical terms, they don't realize there can be other matters involved, like psychology, privacy, sheer emotion, and a whole bunch of human factors (I'm not just referring to the links, but also to the revealing of who gives a subscription, the 'need a premium subscription' thing).
2. Beta testing is done by volunteers, but people who volunteer for beta testing are bound to be interested in new technical goodies, and not the type that can be expected to feel bad about them, for all kinds of reasons.
3. Often new features aren't properly announced at all... surprise!!! However, surprises are only nice when you like what's coming.
4. There's always whining and complaining over new features, whatever they are. It's understandable if dA management tends to ignore people who complain, but sometimes the complainers might just have a point.
Given the circumstances, most admins are doing a hell of a job. Would they do the same in a professional setting, they'd get training about complaint-handling, conflict-management and all kinds of other essential skills, and they'd have eight hours every working day to do what they have to do, and there'd be a more rigorous selection on personality and life experience.
Instead dA admins do their thing practically for free, next to the other things they have do to stay alive, any knowledge about art they might have is a matter of pure luck, and many of them are too young to have any experience in what they're supposed to be doing. So, I tip my had to most of them for what they manage to accomplish anyway.
And yes, that subscription giving thing is a bit interesting to say the least, but can't one just not show that panel? As for the "Needs Premium" thing, I just dismissed it as marketing, though a rather peculiar one. These issues as such didn't really catch my attention any more than the banner ads do, though I admit that I blocked them.
2. and 3: You're right about that, I didn't really like the "new" DA we currently have very much, as it seems to clutter up everything. And about the beta testing, I wouldn't know if any of it is going on or not, but it would have certainly been a nice gesture to show the general user some of the new features before applying them.
4. Everyone probably says that he wasn't speeding when stopped by police, but when he really wasn't speeding and the police equipment was faulty, it doesn't really justify fining the guy just because everyone says the same. However, the fact that it's not just as such probably doesn't help here, as there is no way of knowing really.
I'm a bit divided on your last statement... If you really believe in something, and want to participate at something voluntarily, you try to get better and ask advice from those more experienced than you. There is the possibility of learning some things without any formal training if you really want to do it, and don't just do it to get attention or other reasons. Some of the admins seemed outright arrogant to me, and if there's one thing someone doesn't like, it must be to be talked down to by a youngster who doesn't seem to know what he's doing. But that's just how I felt about it in relating to a user's reaction to the new share links and the admins response to her.