1.) "." is not a comment. There's a good chance your art didn't "speak for itself" to the level you thought it did. If I'm looking at your work, I'm interested. However, I feel I've been cheated, misled, or, in the least, have had my time wasted by going down what looked to be an interesting path, wanting to know more about you and your art, only to run into a brick wall of unintelligible punctuation. Given only bits of punctuation to work with, I usually assume (to be safe) that the artist is incapable of using word-based languages. As a service for their convenience, I will often attempt to render my replies in the form of a string of meaningful punctuation. Hints: + means good, - means bad, ~ means iffy. ! means extremely so.

2.) Watermarks are generally annoying. DeviantArt's watermarks tend to destroy everything they touch, putting a big swath of "impossible to see through" right across where the action is. Make your own, less intrusive watermark or, better yet, just chill out and reevaluate the global importance of your deviantArt uploads.

3.) Don't use a Creative Commons license if you don't know what you're doing. Creative Commons licenses explicitly allow others to use your work, under a license granting rights which are usually more open than normal "All Rights Reserved" copyright.

3b.) If you use a Creative Commons license, don't use a watermark. Think about it for a few seconds, and you'll understand the contradiction.

4.) Don't sweat the comments: I don't comment on total shit, so I must have liked what I saw. I also don't comment on perfect works, because there's not much to say and it makes me sound like a slack-jawed gawker. So, assume I liked it, and take the comments and possible improvements.

5-8.) Oh, and: Use the right categories, don't crapflood, have quality control, and don't post it if you didn't make it.

Edit: A couple rewords.

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