Jellyka

Coming here to see my maybe 10 new favs, I ran into no less than 265 new messages.

That feeling was familiar. I was not disappointed.

Thanks a lot for giving me a daily deviation ! I spent 3 or 4 years around here, thinking DDs were that impossible goal I would never reach. And then I get two in one year. That is a surprise!

Thanks a lot, and thanks to you all that cheer me up!

Hello,

It's been almost exactly a year since last time I talked about the font gallery. Since then, I sadly stopped reporting deviations that were not mine, mainly because it takes too much time.

At least, with the new report system, when your own work is stolen action is taken very fast

But I decided to couple my reports with cease and desist letters to the deviant. Having deviations removed don't seem to bother the thieves, but I think receiving such a letter, followed by the deletion of the work in the next 2-3 days might be scary enough for them to stop. Or even (Am i dreaming?) for them to pass the word. Why not.

If it was not in my confidence that deviantart will delete reposts of my fonts, I would actually be interested in pressing charges against the worst ones. But I probably won't need to do that.


Something I found funny: The font category is so full of stolen font, that when you tell them they don't have the right to post them, or even when you send them a cease and desist letter, they reply to you that it's okay because everyone is doing it. Wtf. Some also told me it was okay because they gave credit. To dafont.

Anyway. I guess it's right for me to rant about it once a year.

OMG

A DD ? A DD ??? OMGWTFBBQ

Just logged  in and wtf 103 new messages ? Maybe my new font is being featured somewhere ?

But no, Saint-Andrew's Queen has a Daily Deviation, thanks to you all, and especially to znow-white

Quite a cool ans unexpected Christmas gift, makes me really happy

news.deviantart.com/article/94…

If you're into font just a little bit, you probably already know KeepWaiting . He just made a wonderful news article about how the font category is being spammed by hundreds of stolen works.

I talked about that in my previous journal already, but almost nothing has changed since last time I posted that journal. Please go read and fav this article, we need it to be seen by as many people as possible, so that things can be changed.

He's describing the situation very well, please go!

Yesterday, I passed 2-3 hours to report (more than?) half of what can be seen in DA's font category.
If you want to understand, just go there: www.deviantart.com/#catpath=re…

I reported 16 out of the 24 thumbs we see. And those only are the ones I could recognize, ones I was certain to find on dafont or google. As you can see, the font Ghost town is there three times. And none of them is done by the original author, dirt2 (keepwaiting here on DA): keepwaiting.deviantart.com/art…;

What's even worst, is that I contacted one of the font-posters, asking her to remove the fonts she posted because she didn't do it. And she answered that she does that so that it's easier for people to find them and it's okay to post them because she doesn't say she did them.... Well. well. well. I heard of some cases like that on DA (today page lurker inside) but lol, I'd never think it'd be this much frustrating to see someone being <>that wrong</i>. Didn't try to convince her though, demands too much energy for what it gives. Font cat is almost dead anyway.

It's not the first time I do a font cat reporting raid, and they all get removed at some point so it's okay. But still, yesterday's was a huge one, that's why I felt like journal it xD