Update // Points not allowed as prizes! Important!

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ANOTHER UPDATE:://

FAQ #894: Can I run a lottery, raffle, sweepstakes or other random drawing or game of chance through my DeviantArt account?
- well it's worse then I thought. To those who are too lazy to click the link: 

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Games of chance (such as raffles, lotteries and other random giveaways) and fraudulent activity are prohibited on DeviantArt.

Our principal concerns are to avoid the exploitation of members of DeviantArt, prevent unfair treatment of deviants who are solicited to participate and avoid the appearance of impropriety from offers which are open to abuse as well as the various, and varying, laws restricting or regulating the conduct of games of chance in differing parts of the world. 

We encourage gift giving. We encourage trading points for art or art services. We encourage the solicitation of points as donations. 

Games of chance, however, solicit with a promise of potential reward and we have no adequate means to confirm that the “game” is conducted fairly or within the requirements of applicable law and because of these concerns we cannot allow them to be run through your DeviantArt account.


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In other words, giveaways are not allowed. At all. Even if it's made to give a gift or had just art on it.

So sad to tell ya people, but all the milestone giveaways and Calendar Raffle are now officially cancelled. I might hold sales in their place, but that is about it.

If you still want to get free art from me, I am able to hold these giveaways (on much smaller scale) in my FurAffinity.

To those who are crying "It's been since 2010!", no, no it hasn't. I've been holding giveaways since 2012, and took my time to research if these are okay - and even took good reading what kind of giveaways were okay and what were not back then. 


dA is a company that is trying to cover their legal backsides, there is no other way around it. I won't lie I'm bit saddened that giveaways and free-to-enter raffles are now banned since I loved doing art-work for people that couldn't afford my commissions, to give them a chance to get at least something. Requests are still a no no for me, since there is no out of that slippery slope and people act so entitled for the requested stuff that I'd rather not deal with that again. 

Tho I might just... randomly pick people from my watcher list and see if they got any characters that they adore that I could draw. It's not technically a giveaway, it's a gift, right?


Oh well. If something good came out of this, it's the fact that now I don't have to worry about my work que so much.


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Points and/or currency cannot be awarded in any raffle, contest or giveaway.

Points and/or currency cannot be awarded in any raffle, contest or giveaway.

POINTS AND/OR CURRENCY CANNOT BE AWARDED IN ANY RAFFLE, CONTEST OR GIVEAWAY.



Well that's that then. Time to get rid of my points, I just ordered one com so I might as well give all the points to the artist making that cheeb I ordered. 


Also for the Calendar Raffle, I'm making it so it's 12 pieces of art from me every other day. I know it's not as great as 24 random prizes of points and possible PM's mixed with art, but eh ya know. Can't really help it if it's dA's policy now. Well at least I heard about it now and not after buying the points. Just figured you people wanted heads up, if you don't follow NinjaKato / NinjaKato's journal etc.


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Just read it in there. Or better yet: 

Raffle Removed Response by ShellYeah

Now this wouldn't be a problem, because I could just drop the PM / point prizes I was planning and replacing them with art-prizes. The problem is however that there is no way I could manage 24 prize-arts in one month. Or hell, even in two. 

So, if this policy is going to stand, I might not be able to hold my annual give-away. 


dA, if this was your idea of trying to make people buy points instead of earning them, you have failed miserably. Because I was planning on buying crap-ton of points and couple PM's just for these give-aways to keep my workload at 15-17 art-works at tops. But thanks for the heads up before I went and spent any money on this site! I mean, I really have no other use for dem points aside from giving them away.


So yeah. Take this as heads up or something I: I'll just go and look for people that take point coms now so I can get rid of the ones I have atm.... 




Also I'm gonna just contact the staff and ask if this is legit thing. I'm not holding my hopes up I:

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HellboysLady's avatar
thanks for sharing this.