Should we ban vore from DeviantArt?

[DontShowMeOnGoogle55555]

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I'm sorry, but, why did you decide to write a fucking college essay over this? You basically said "you're not important enough, dumbass", but in a very long and drawn out way.

10 out of fucking 10.

And no, I don't care if I'm "missing the point".

The response after yours explains why I wrote a "Fucking college essay."

A simple mind, looking for a simple solution to a complex problem.

Doll pretty much sums up the reason I wrote so much. I will spare the world a second essay. It isn't needed. I don't think you're missing the point, exactly. I think that you're scared and triggered by the fact that trolls exist, and you think we should all be scared and triggered like you, huddling over here in Eka's Portal for fear of the bad men. I don't think you care about the point, or any point but what's in your mind.

Wow, laying down the "cold, hard truth", trying to make me feel bad about myself.

I know I'm a simple mind. I wish I wasn't. Like many people, I feel the need to be smarter than everyone else, better than everyone else, to be "special".

At this point I'm just plain ranting, so I probably should shut my petty mouth up.

[Doku]

To be clear: I'm not intending to insult you, so no. There's no desire that you feel bad about yourself. I'd prefer you not live in fear of random trolls on the internet. They rarely merit even a first thought, much less a second.

If it was not clear: "You're not important enough" is not really an insult, though I know my egotistical tone won't help on this. Another way to understand this is: "I do not have large numbers of viewers who started watching me because of the general caliber of my art. Most of the people who watch me are simply people who wish to watch me because they know me, or we share a group/fetish." An artist with 1,000+ viewers almost certainly has viewers who are not watching them because they like everything that the person draws. Someone with 100 viewers or less, generally speaking, usually only has viewers who follow them because of shared artist groups and/or shared fetishes, so those are people who specifically want to see what they're producing.

It's not bad to be below the radar of trolls. It just means that you're being watched mostly by people who want to watch your stuff. 99.9% of us aren't professional artists here, after all.

Personally, just relax. You are too worried about something that really doesn't impact you. Take it easy, dude.

[Mawsome]

I actually find it to be a good platform for organizing and displaying my work. Granted I'm new to the creator/artist side of vore but until I find a better alternative, DA is what works for me.

[DontShowMeOnGoogle55555]

To be clear: I'm not intending to insult you, so no. There's no desire that you feel bad about yourself. I'd prefer you not live in fear of random trolls on the internet. They rarely merit even a first thought, much less a second.

If it was not clear: "You're not important enough" is not really an insult, though I know my egotistical tone won't help on this. Another way to understand this is: "I do not have large numbers of viewers who started watching me because of the general caliber of my art. Most of the people who watch me are simply people who wish to watch me because they know me, or we share a group/fetish." An artist with 1,000+ viewers almost certainly has viewers who are not watching them because they like everything that the person draws. Someone with 100 viewers or less, generally speaking, usually only has viewers who follow them because of shared artist groups and/or shared fetishes, so those are people who specifically want to see what they're producing.

It's not bad to be below the radar of trolls. It just means that you're being watched mostly by people who want to watch your stuff. 99.9% of us aren't professional artists here, after all.

Personally, just relax. You are too worried about something that really doesn't impact you. Take it easy, dude.

You're right. I'm sorry. I guess I just kinda got more and more pissed with each reply on this thread.
Once again, I'm really sorry.

[fieldmousse]

Lol I brought up deviant art to a couple irl friends, I was making fun of their mobile UI and my friends were like: "Isn't that a furry porn site?"
Deviant art **is** a fetish site because people post fetish material on it.

[FemmiK]

The way I see it, no. Although I myself moved on from that site (for reasons other than trolls), I don't believe we should just give in to those trolls' demands and leave. That's like moving to a different neighborhood because one guy doesn't agree with you. Plus doing so would just encourage more trolling behavior from those people, so that furthers my answer.

[MementoMori]

Should vore and other fetish things that appear in general media that we get turned on by be banned from the general media? Literally ANYTHING can be a fetish.

^ This is my take on the subject personally TBH. I don't think people can ban something like that whether they want to or not you know? I don't usually post my vore art to my DA account though, and whenever I do now I prefer to only post my clean vore there, ie. the ones with mild or no nudity.

[Aril_Lisidmuthir]

In short: No.
In long: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[GeneralUrist]

ALLRIGHT GENTLEMENTLEMEN! No-life internet trolls are making fun of our fetishes on a gigantic open art website? The solution: Purge ourselves from the public eye and retreat into hiding!

yeah NO. Like, fetishes are a thing. The correct thing to do it to stand out against the trolls and moral guardians, and NOT to let them drive us into hiding! Sheesh....

And yeah while the extreme blantant port stuff probably shouldn't be on DA, the less outrageously fetishy stuff, the stuff that has real plot and effort instead of being a cheap fap, or not being for a fap at all, does not need to be purged by the comissar of public morals!

SERIOUSLY! I've only put up one piece of vore material on DA so far (Might be more later if I get off my ass), but I do not appreciate being told to basically run and hide from trolls that aren't even a major force.

[NazistDuck]

In my opinion, Deviantart is a place for art of all types, which is why there is a lot of foot fetish, weight gain and even yaoi around.
Also, calling vore innaproppiate in Deviantart is being quite a hypocrite, considering the amount of warnings people put in it. Also, did anyone notice naked pregnant pictures are treated as art, while vore is not? No? Ok.

I'm not saying you're a hypocrite, but I'm referring to people that hate in general. If you dislike something, don't look at it and shut your mouth. Make fun of privately.

[maraudingmarauder]

short version: no
longer version: lol no
even longer version: lol no you don't get to tell other people what they do on the internet

it's not your place to tell deviantart what they should and shouldn't allow because you're not a deviantart moderator
and it's certainly not your place to tell the site's users what they should and shouldn't post for that same reason

[SaintxTail]

Where does it say on DA that it's for 'normal art'? Also I have hundreds of vore art on DA and I have been uploading there for 2 years and not 1 time have I gotten a troll that has complained about it.
That's what the DA filters are for. Incase you hadn't notice DA filters specify things like sexual content, violence, etc. So they clearly are accepting of 'not' normal art they just want artists to put a filter on it.

[vore2412]

To OP: Look up deviant. In fact, I'll help you with the definition: Deviant-departing from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or sexual behavior.
"deviant behavior"
synonyms: aberrant, abnormal, atypical, anomalous, irregular, nonstandard; More
antonyms: normal
See, normal, as in what type of artwork you say Deviantart is for, is the antonym for the word. So no, vore is normal in the terms of being deviant, and vore artists should feel free to post there. Trolls are everywhere, and you ain't gonna stop them. Goes with the rather pessimistic saying, "I can only satisfy so many people, and you ain't one of them."

To Moderators: I would almost think this thread should be locked, though I reserve that judgement for yourselves. As entertaining as the back and forth chat has been, I think all positive avenues of answering in this thread have been exhausted now, and further discussion about this topic is a somewhat moot point.

As always, this is my opinion, take it with a grain of salt. I welcome any conducive and noninflammatory replies. And to all of you, good night. Or morning, or afternoon, depending on where you are.

[Miridium]

To OP: Look up deviant. In fact, I'll help you with the definition: Deviant-departing from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or sexual behavior.
"deviant behavior"
synonyms: aberrant, abnormal, atypical, anomalous, irregular, nonstandard; More
antonyms: normal
See, normal, as in what type of artwork you say Deviantart is for, is the antonym for the word. So no, vore is normal in the terms of being deviant, and vore artists should feel free to post there. Trolls are everywhere, and you ain't gonna stop them. Goes with the rather pessimistic saying, "I can only satisfy so many people, and you ain't one of them."

To Moderators: I would almost think this thread should be locked, though I reserve that judgement for yourselves. As entertaining as the back and forth chat has been, I think all positive avenues of answering in this thread have been exhausted now, and further discussion about this topic is a somewhat moot point.

As always, this is my opinion, take it with a grain of salt. I welcome any conducive and noninflammatory replies. And to all of you, good night. Or morning, or afternoon, depending on where you are.

I agree. Lock the thread. Please. This has gone on long enough.

[Emi]

This has probably already been covered before, but vore really shouldn't be on DeviantArt. It's not a fetish site. It's a site for normal art. Non-voraphiles are honestly pretty pissed about the shit they have to put up with on that site, and I don't really blame them.

So, my question is, should vore and other fetish art be banned from DevaintArt, and force artists to move to actual fetish sites?

Oh. OMG!!! "Ice Age" cartoons contain vore scenes, we must ban it! Oh, wait... what about Pinnochio? Definitely must be banned, the whale scene is a terrible vore fetish. And "Finding Namo" too. And "American story". "Jurassic Park" must be ABSOLUTELY forbidden along with "Anaconda".

Guy, serious??? What if some of us, vorarephiles, get absolutely bored and pissed off with boring "normal" art, must we ask for banning it?... Non-voraphiles must watch what they like and don't watch what they don't like. Deviant Art is for EVERY artist no matter how kinky his art is. Ignoring tons of haters is our, fetishists fate, we must bare it and learn to ignore it:)

[LucifersChef]

It is also worth noting DeviantArt was recently bought by Wix.com so it is quite likely they will begin to try and purge it of fetish art.

[JimmyFallen]

As some peeps have already pointed out: it's called "DEVIANT" Art for a reason

And there is such a huge variety of any fetish content, you'd have to remove or flag a significant amount of the art posted there.

I could ramble on, but all my other thoughts have been written already.

So again and short: NO

[Kitsouille]

I dunno, honestly I'm not sure what should and should not be "correct" to post on deviantart. On one side, the site is called DEVIANTart, the members are DEVIANTS and the posts are called DEVIATIONS. Also it allows for 18+ content so maybe it is welcoming fetish content?? I mean I'm sure the 18+ is for something else than everyone naked like in a roman painting. The website does not define what a deviation is so my understanding is that everyone is unique and weird in their own way. Doesn't matter if people enjoy bashing it or cringing on it.

[Assimilation]

I'm sorry. I guess I just kinda got more and more pissed with each reply on this thread.
Once again, I'm really sorry.

To Moderators: I would almost think this thread should be locked, though I reserve that judgement for yourselves. As entertaining as the back and forth chat has been, I think all positive avenues of answering in this thread have been exhausted now, and further discussion about this topic is a somewhat moot point.

I agree. Lock the thread. Please. This has gone on long enough.

This thread has served its purpose. I'd like to be able to hit a "request thread lock" button without reporting a user's post.

[Emi]

Let's better think about how to save vore on DeviantArt...