greetingz. welcome to the most uneventful part of . i'm the reverend. i'm a poet, and i have a shytload of good poetry you can read . i have also recently started posting my own high rezolution desktop wallpaperz. i also love to post my desktop screenshots. be aware, though, i spell deviously. thanks for viziting.



the newz: well, da haz been working on a portfolio, but have not been doing a very good job. they have stopped listening to their memberz, especially their paying memberz. what would you call that? when they first started this portfolio project, it waz possible to put poetry in your portfolio. not anymore. they have also put some truly asinine limits on how much text you can enter into your bio, and two custom boxez. so, first, i'm posting what i wanted to say in my bio boxez, and then, posting all my complaints so far, along with all of their extremely rude repliez. it iz the note that i sent to spyed, that containz everything.

my bio boxez:

(biography) i'm a word magician. i'm a very intelligent, knowledgeable, and experienced writer and poet. i write about consciousness and evolution, among other things. i intend to publish a book for my poetry, sometime soon. i can write anything, if i put my mind to it. i have a very unique writing style, including spelling, which holds creative meaning for me. i am also a musician, a beginning photographer, and i specialize in desktop customization for windows xp computers.

i started writing when i was seventeen, and soon figured out that i was onto something. in the early days, i was inspired by black sabbath lyrics. when i was twenty, i read a book that opened my perceptions, called 'turn on, tune in, drop out', by timothy leary. i started writing about consciousness, and my inspirations have broadened greatly ever since.

(desktop customization) i can totally revamp the look and pheel of your windows xp desktop, with visual styles, wallpapers, icons and cursors, and assorted desktop programs, that not only look cool, but are functional, and have many different features. if you are tired of the same old look, and want to add colour and style to your desktop, and make it asthætically pleasing, i can help.

(photography) i am a beginning photographer, and am open to learning all different types of photography. i have an excellent, sophisticated taste in many different types of art, and mostly enjoy very colourful images. i love cloudy days, rainy days, sunrises and sunsets, and i love when the skies change colours, so i have taken pictures of those events.

the note to spyed:

hey, i'm sorry, but i don't know who else to go to. it said on the hq page that you're the cofounder and ceo, and i know i should go all the way to the top for this one, so i'm hoping you can help me. (i know you're probably busy with the whole 'world tour' thing, but please just take a moment and read this. even if you have to save this and get back to it later, it doesn't matter, i would just like someone to help me).

this isn't the first time that some of the da admin have ignored my wishes, treated me like a retard, and insulted me. i didn't do anything to deserve this kind of treatment.

the following is an exchange of comments between me, $20after4, and `Lilyas, regarding the new portfolio feature on da. i'm really hoping that you can help clear this situation up, and put into motion the few accommodations i am asking for.

here is the correspondence...

(my original comment) 700 characters for the artist bio is nowhere near enough, and 300 characters for the custom boxes is nowhere near enough either. what i have written, that i want to have shown on my portfolio page, cannot be cut down, or i would be compromising it's integrity, and would lose very relevant information. whoever came up with these numbers, obviously didn't have much to say. i am a writer, and i know what needs to be said, especially on my portfolio. i ask that you increase the character limit to at least 900 for the bio, and 400 for the custom boxes.

in case you need to know, i currently have written 824 characters for my bio, 364 for my first custom box, and 326 for the second. please let me know when you increase the limits, so that i can post my entire information on my portfolio. if i'm paying you for it, i should have that choice. thank you.

(netami-fire) I agree with you as well. I tend to say more than needed to get my point across (but I like detail), and I had to take full sentences out to get it to fit.

(me) great, thank you for agreeing. let's hope they listen to us, and change it.

(20after4) There isn't enough room on the page to increase the limits beyond what we have set. It would overflow the page and we are very strictly avoiding scroll bars.

(me) now that's just stupid. why are you avoiding scrollbars? that's so ignorant! every other website or online "portfolio" on earth has scrollbars. you obviously haven't done your research. stop being such nazis, and give your PAYING MEMBERS what they want.

i am not asking for a huge increase in size. i am asking for a small increase in size. i am paying you. you keep bitching about how you don't want to be just another myspace, well then listen to your members! this is nowhere near the first time you have pissed me off, and refused to listen to me. I AM PAYING YOU!!!

and why aren't you allowing poetry in the portfolios? are writers not good enough to have a portfolio? do you even know what a portfolio is? all you people can think about is website code, so what are you doing running an ART website? the awesome version, my ass. you should call it the nazi version.

----

(this is actually my third comment) also, my web address won't work. i typed it into the box, and it accepted it, but when i enter that address in my web browser, my portfolio doesn't show up. did i do something wrong? if so, can it be changed?

(20after4) did you use upper case letters? go back to [link] and edit your domain name to be sure it's all lower-case.

(me) i am not a retard. i know how to enter a web address. stop talking to me like i'm stupid. i am a paying member. have you noticed how i've written everything? it's all lowercase. i rarely use capitals.

----

[link]

700 characters for the artist bio is nowhere near enough, and 300 characters for the custom boxes is nowhere near enough either. what i have written, that i want to have shown on my portfolio page, cannot be cut down, or i would be compromising it's integrity, and would lose very relevant information. whoever came up with these numbers, obviously didn't have much to say. i am a writer, and i know what needs to be said, especially on my portfolio. i ask that you increase the character limit to at least 900 for the bio, and 400 for the custom boxes.

in case you need to know, i currently have written 824 characters for my bio, 364 for my first custom box, and 326 for the second. please let me know when you increase the limits, so that i can post my entire information on my portfolio. if i'm paying you for it, i should have that choice. thank you.

(lilyas) Who do you think has the time to read all this stuff you want to write? Keep it clear and brief, just the important infos, not your complete life story.

(mhalpert) yeah - last thing you want someone to do is tl;dr your Portfolio bio Stick the important stuff ---(what is tl;dr?).

(me) are you insane? it's not my life story. stop talking to me like i'm stupid, and stop being such nazis. i am a writer. something you obviously know nothing about. my life story would be a SERIES of books. i am not writing a book, i am just saying what needs to be said. how can you possibly call 824 characters a book? are you reading children's books?

----

(and no one ever even addressed this question, which is my second question) uh... now why the hell aren't you allowing people to post their poetry? are you ignoring writers or something? are writers not good enough to have a portfolio? "oh, look at the pretty colours! oh, what's that? words? oh, well, fuck that nonsense!" seriously? well, you seriously need to rethink that little gem. i'm sure i'm not the only one that's livid about that. when you first started this portfolio thing, i was able to post my poetry on there, but for some reason, you took that away. that tells me only one thing. you want to guess what that is?

and one more thing, why is there a size limit for the images on my portfolio? there is a cool little feature on computers, called 'scrolling down', you know. no wander this is still in beta testing, you really shouldn't have even released this yet. why is it that windows released vista way before it was ready to be released, and you're doing the same thing, as well as so many other website and computer companies? what's the deal?

----------------

that's everything. i am really upset about this. deviantart, to me, is a site without limits. so why are they putting such ridiculous limits on everything? i really don't understand that. i would send you my last series of complaints, regarding the new user pages, but i don't think you have time for that, so i'll just send this.

i'm really very sorry if i'm mistaken about who to send this to, or anything else in this matter. but i'm tired of being treated like a child whenever i ask for something reasonable. i also fear that if i say anything wrong, that i'll get banned, and all my poetry deleted, when some of it isn't saved on my computer. i also think that is a really irresponsible way of dealing with certain issues. deviantart is my home, it's the only place on the internet where i feel comfortable being me, and i would really hate to lose that. i am on this site several times a day, and am dedicated to my page, and how it looks.

i'm sure this can be worked out, and that da can give me what i want regarding this portfolio thing. i am not asking for that much. i am not asking for huge changes. 200 characters is really not that much. i am quite sure that it won't compromise the integrity of your portfolio feature, as much as it's compromising the integrity of my particular portfolio page. we should all have more choices, and more abilities than this. this website could be capable of so much, if they would just listen to their members, especially their paying members. i have been a deviant for a total of seven years, and i have watched this site grow and evolve into something amazing, only to have those observations crushed when i encounter people like this. i am not trying to sound like an asshole, i am just fed up with all these ridiculous rules. i have many hopes for this site, and i'm hoping da can understand that.

thank you for listening, and i look forward to hearing back from you.
ozz =InMyDisk3yez