TheLunaLily [2018-06-22 19:48:42 +0000 UTC]

I hope DLD comes back. It meant so much to me and and I know I’m not the only one. 

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CecePeniston [2014-10-04 17:48:14 +0000 UTC]

Hello!
I'm looking for "Writing contests" does it exist on DA?

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EvelynTaliette [2014-07-10 01:06:34 +0000 UTC]

I just found out about this...I can't believe it. Getting my first DLD was the most amazing thing, it pushed me to keep writing and I'm so grateful that it did. I understand the bruised pride and the feeling of something having "run its course" or failed entirely as an admin of a group, or the leader of a project-- the fact is that it's just the wrong perception, no matter how perfect something was you'll always think it should have grown higher, went further, accomplished more than it did. But to me and many other members, DLD is an imperative part of the deviantart literature community. But it seems like everyone else has given up already-- we took DLDs for granted, and even though they're gone now it still feels like you'll happen across the honor being bestowed via the copy-paste comment on a celebrated piece, or you'll see one in your feedback messages and jump for joy, but I guess they're gone now...So many of us are willing to bring it back, and we should be allowed in to start again. The group has extended beyond the admins, and especially the admins internal issues now-- this has to do with all of us.

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Story-of-a-Mind [2014-04-21 17:18:09 +0000 UTC]

It's really sad to see DLD going down this way - cause maybe it wasn't doing 100% of what it once was intended to do, but in my opinion it sure was doing a pretty damn awesome and important job. I still treasure the DLDs I got and basically just got warm with suggesting. I see there is a new group forming to keep up the good work, it could be part of the solution. But I just hope everybody involved can find a way to make peace with each other. Cause guys, you all have been putting a lot of work into creating something awesome, please don't become enemies over it.

Please try to take 3 giant steps back and look past this mess and see what you have accomplished together, cause I sure think that was an amazing lot of things. For that, I want to thank every single one of you.

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TheBrassGlass [2014-04-16 07:37:30 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for being such a powerful force in this community for so long. Having been on the admin side of this group for a short while, I know how much hard work and dedication were required to keep it running. In spite of what anyone says, you all have done a great service to all of us.

Thank you.

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Perfling [2014-04-13 13:45:57 +0000 UTC]

This just sucks. I'm not even going to try to say something meaningful..

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Enemom [2014-04-12 14:23:31 +0000 UTC]

I find it utterly repulsive a group who has given so much needed attention to writing and literature is closing down for selfish and pathetic reasons. :/

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Lewanut [2014-04-12 13:50:26 +0000 UTC]

While I completely understand your reasons for closing the group – bruised pride is painful – bear in mind that any embarrassment is confined to a few specific users, and the vast majority of people affiliated with this group don't actually care or look down on you about that mistake. In fact, in trying to save face, you're actually bringing more negative attention to yourself than you would have been if you'd just swept the matter under the rug. And if it's specifically the hurt feelings of the former staff member that you're upset about, private attempts at reconciliation approached with humility can do wonders. "I'm sorry" is very effective; I say that as somebody who within the past year had to swallow a buttload of pride to finally say that to somebody.

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DanielaIvanova [2014-04-12 13:41:37 +0000 UTC]

I find the reasons for closing the group very childish and selfish. I would expect a more mature approach and less drama from people who so selflessly supported the lit community. Thought a person like that would be above such petty issues. I hope things settle down and you reconsider.

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DorianHarper [2014-04-12 12:32:06 +0000 UTC]

It's seriously a shame that you're closing-- and for such silly reasons. If it's really all over a journal having something listed wrong, a simple edit was all that was required. Not this.

This group has meant so much to many in the Lit. Community, probably more than any other group that isn't an official CR group, and taking it away on the drop of the hat without consulting the other co-founders or trying to have someone else take over is just selfish. Literature struggles as it is to find its place in the deviantArt community. Desperately at times. All the love and support that it can get boosts the confidence and creativity of writers and gives them the ability to share their work with others-- and that's the purpose of dA, isn't?

While I may not be very active on the site right now due to life getting in the way, this was something I had to comment on. DLDs have been important to me since their start-- both in finding new lit. to read on the site, new writers, and once in a while, find my work featured and give me something exciting to wake up to. On top of that, serving as a Poetry Admin was the first real opportunity I had to be an active part of the lit. community... and I made so many new friends here through that. I'm certain other writers can say the same.

I'm honestly appalled by all this. Pulling the plug without consulting with the other co-founders or trying to have someone take over to keep the group alive is just selfish, as I said before. (And changing the password so that the other admins can't log-in as I overheard happening is, as well.) This group meas so much to the lit. community, and taking it away is just low. The drama needs to end. Suck it up or either pass the group to another person. DLD is worth too much to the community to disappear.

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namenotrequired [2014-04-12 08:45:54 +0000 UTC]

Sorry to hear you're considering closing down.

I second a lot of what AspiredWriter said, in that this group has done a tremendous amount for the community, and without it my time here - my entire life - would likely have run a very different course, and perhaps not such a great one. I'd be surprised if there aren't many others who can say the same thing. Thanks so, so much to everyone who's worked for DLD or otherwise contributed to its existence and succes.  

If you do close, I hope you don't deactivate the account  it's so full of great memories for many of us.

I hope you guys can work it out together and find a solution to keep it in existence.

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BeccaJS [2014-04-12 08:23:18 +0000 UTC]

How pathetic.

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AspiredWriter [2014-04-12 07:29:40 +0000 UTC]

This here is a copy of a note as feedback for the "closing" journal entry. You disabled all comments to the "closing" journal entry so I could not do this in its proper place. I am putting it here as well because I would love for as many deviants as possible to read these words.

I'm shocked and upset by reading this news. DLD has been my first group here on dA (before there were really even groups technically) and is majorly responsible for me still being here today and consequentially any and all improvements I have made as an artist and friends I have made and amazing people and artists I have met here during my over four years on the site. It has been a comfort to have it out there pushing me on. It is a day of mourning to hear of the shutting of your doors.

I, (and I am sure many others) appreciate the hard and dedicated work you have put in and for being for us deviants all these years.

I didn't quite understand the reason for this move. Is a correction of an accidental detail really the reason for this? I am confused and saddened.

I plead with you to reconsider and remain for all of us who adore you and have come to count on you. If you indeed go you will be sourly missed. I think you know this and it is for this reason you disabled the comments for you fear your mind changed by a deluge of fan-comments.

A big hug and dA love to you all for the work you put in. you are truly amazing people.

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BellaRomatica [2014-04-12 05:02:23 +0000 UTC]

What good will it do to close this group? It will only make people sad, please reconsider all of this.

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TheseKrimzonFlames [2014-04-12 04:34:06 +0000 UTC]

Also, I find it disturbing that someone whose sole contribution, to what I helped create, for so long was "owning" this account all of a sudden just takes it upon themselves to utterly destroy what I helped create. Even if my recollections are totally wrong, ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS SIMPLY EDIT THE ARTICLE. THAT'S IT. Instead you completely went off the deep end, and now, you've plunged into the abyss. Incidentally, my recollections are NOT wrong.

How about this kersee9 , since you're soooo offended, how about you just give the group back to me, so you don't need to EVER worry about it again? DLD matters so much to so many, and you have NO RIGHT AT ALL TO JUST TAKE IT AWAY FROM THEM. Period. You, in this moment, just became one of the biggest failures the Literature community has EVER had.

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TheseKrimzonFlames [2014-04-12 04:26:08 +0000 UTC]

That journal entry is very, very false, and the conduct of the one who wrote it is reprehensible. I agree with SilverInkblot , what the actual fuck. 

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