Sneaky banning from DevArt?

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degausser
Sneaky banning from DevArt?

Sorry to derail with a non-directly-related-to-inflation topic, but I was wondering if someone could fill me in, if they've heard of this before.

I had a non-inflation deviantart page, and it was watched by some pretty close-minded people (like my mother) so I didn't want to start posting stuff there. I decided to make a second account, one souly for inflated stuff, under a different name and no real links. I'd seen other people create two accounts before, and as long as they weren't doing much between the two, devart really didn't care. I didn't even visit my page from one to the other to bump my pageviews.

It was fine for about a week, but now I can't log in because it says my 'password and username' don't match, and the problem persisted even after I had them e-mail me a new password.

I tried visiting the site while logged out and it gave me an 'internal service error.' "No problem" I thought. "Just tech issues." Their website hays that these problems last for 5 minutes usually, and half an hour at the most. It's now been three hours, and I've noticed that my username is being deleted from the activity list of other deviants. Is this a prelude to account deletion or banning? If so, what did I do wrong? I labeled all of my 'questionable' drawings (which were not actually that questionable) as mature, slapped on the mature marker, and haven't been copying other deviations. I recieved no hate mail, warnings, or other such comuniques. Has anyone heard of this happening before?

Also, I noticed pictures from my main account are being deleted as well, with apperently no ryme or reason, but I can still view the account just fine.

IronHead

If it wasn't for my paranoia, I'd say this is just the beginning. Just a matter of time before the government breaks into your home and charges you for "expressing yourself"! But seriously, I think it's just DA being a total @$$.

LittlePumpkin

I've been thinking of creating a second account too for inflation art, but now I've read your story...
I don't know what it is. I hope a technical problem ;)

degausser

Huh . . . randomly everything is back, including the deleted pics from my main account. . . .

Ooookay . . .

Ataru

I've seen other peoples' pages have journal entries with similar problems.
I'd say it's a glitch, more or less.
~A

I was told to change my signature. So I did.

Keyosne

They just have downtimes. I've seen worse at other sites, though.

Personally, but not so personally, I have about five different accounts there. Given, one is a plz account, but still five. I've neglected the plz account as well as two of the others for a while.

You don't need to worry about random banning at dA more than hypocritical staff as well as random, copy-pasted messages from them. Say, I found an entire group using images that weren't theirs, took it to the help desk, and got the typical copy-paste 'CLICK THE REPORT BUTTON' message.
I am not reporting HUNDREDS of submissions off of each of the ten peoples' pages.

*ramble ramble*

Inflate123
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Glad it was just a server burp.