Overadvertising D:
PesteredAfter receiving a three month subscription from
I came to the realization that the subscription offers nothing that I desire. I am content to browse 24 deviations at a time, I've found that CSS styles are not very vision impaired friendly so there's not much I can do to my journal, and I don't really need to see more deviations as thumbnails when looking at my devwatchlist's submissions.That said, I have a very humble request. Please stop trying to pressure me back into getting a subscription. Yes, I used the word pressure. I can understand the e-mail I received when my subscription was about to run out. That's a standard practice on websites that offer paid memberships. What is NOT standard practice is interrupting my browsing with a full page ad prodding me to resubscribe when the subscription ran out. Another non standard and rather spammish (but I'm not sure I want to call it spam since it is infrequent) is to send me messages through the notification section of the message center.
I am a smart person. I graduated with two degrees from a reputable state university. I have an IQ somewhere between 126 and 136. If I want a subscription, please have the faith in me that I can figure out that the link stating "upgrade now" must be where I can renew my subscription if I ever so desire.
I am not swayed by such tactics. If anything, and many of my teachers over the two decades I spent in some sort of school environment can attest to this, this type of pressure advertising bombardment always sends me in the opposite direction. I admit I was the kid who didn't get motivated by teacher's giving us candy. I don't get motivated by fliers shoved in my post box for various things. What motivates me is internal and my own desires, which currently cannot and do not involve a subscription.
I know that in this economy where people are reluctant to shuck out the money to have th membership, you are probably suffering a loss in the gains you typically make in a year here at Deviantart. I know this creates an environment which is tempting to carrot and stick everyone that can be carrotted and sticked into getting a subscription. That's business I know.
I just would like to be offered it once and be done with it. I'm not into buying luxuries right now. I'm not into purchasing something that is beyond my means right now.
I would like some respect. The site is already well advertised without assaulting my message center.
Thank you for your time I am really grateful for this site,
Uozumi
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This kind of stuff is just always a big turn off for me :/
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That and those weird full page adverts (like the flash ones that are at the side, but they open in a full page or redirect you) are quite off putting.
Usually because when it does redirect it's often some weird "Install this now" redirect, and it's almost as if they want you to buy a subscription just so it stops happening.
Otherwise dA is pretty okay. It's just recently with all these notices about premium membership, prints and whatnot I thought I was going loopy.
Guess it's happening to other people, too.
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Coffee? Pencils? Music on my Zen? You know what this means?- Art! (And one happy Moggie. xD)
"Great artists don't need to tell you how good they are- you can see for yourself. Though, apparently, no-one else can...hence their lack of feedback." - Mog
That just drives me into the camp of "I'm never giving this place money!" because it's almost like I'm living in a junk mail folder some days.
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I am very happy here, which is why if I could mark my account as "No Subscription Needed," I would. Please do not gift me subscriptions or merchandise from Deviantart. I do not wish for money to be given to this site on my account. Thank you.
Even the advertising is no problem if it doesn't redirect me somewhere. Sure, it's a drag when the page takes ages to load but you get that everywhere.
In the end I just wonder what it's all about anyway. I've been to two art sites now, both offering subscriptions and neither offering what I want. Though both seem to make it painfully clear, either by message or by on-screen garbage, what you're missing out on.
I'm not sure how they figure it will work, either. Being a marketing student for a few years, I've learned that while communicating with your audience is the best method to sell the product- it has to be meaningful communication. Not berate them with messages and god knows what.
Otherwise I love the place. Artist obscurity at it's finest. xD
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Coffee? Pencils? Music on my Zen? You know what this means?- Art! (And one happy Moggie. xD)
"Great artists don't need to tell you how good they are- you can see for yourself. Though, apparently, no-one else can...hence their lack of feedback." - Mog
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I am very happy here, which is why if I could mark my account as "No Subscription Needed," I would. Please do not gift me subscriptions or merchandise from Deviantart. I do not wish for money to be given to this site on my account. Thank you.
I used to think to myself "dA is a very plain site" because we all have the same coloured everything. Yet, on this other site (SheezyArt) I begin to think to myself "If I see one more neon green with bright yellow text combo, I think I will hurl." So, in the end, I like the conformity and being able to see it. Long story short, I agree. xD
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Coffee? Pencils? Music on my Zen? You know what this means?- Art! (And one happy Moggie. xD)
"Great artists don't need to tell you how good they are- you can see for yourself. Though, apparently, no-one else can...hence their lack of feedback." - Mog
I don't enjoy sparkly rainbow text D:
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I am very happy here, which is why if I could mark my account as "No Subscription Needed," I would. Please do not gift me subscriptions or merchandise from Deviantart. I do not wish for money to be given to this site on my account. Thank you.
I agree it can be colourful sometimes...but it's hardly necessary all the time.
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Coffee? Pencils? Music on my Zen? You know what this means?- Art! (And one happy Moggie. xD)
"Great artists don't need to tell you how good they are- you can see for yourself. Though, apparently, no-one else can...hence their lack of feedback." - Mog
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