And Your point is ? Everyone can post anything on da. Although it is a nice photograph I wouldn't use it as a wallpaper.

No, it dasn't bites... It is an insurance that the overal quality of the library is good (atleast... was)
If it was a render you were a genius, if its a picture... you are 'just another' artist.

Devart is a great site. My perspective: http://bakerstreet.joeuser.com/

WC is about interface art, with some wallpapers. Artist interaction is a by-product. A great site, too, but limited ( as good sites should be ) in scope.

Deviantart is about artists, their stuff, and their interaction. If you look at it structurally, a great deal of work has gone into interaction, discussion. In my opinion, WC is a gallery, Deviantart is a Colony with a wall to hang your stuff on. Two different things entirely.

Is today opposite day or something?

deviantART is one of my favorite sites and I consider Jark to be one of my closest "net friends". 

deviantART isn't a skin site in the same sense that WinCustomize. It's an art site but more to the point, it's a cultural center where people can get together and talk and interact in ways that are amazing and excellent.

I like DA, too.  I have a profile and many *photos* there that are not here.  This is a skinning site.  DA is an art site.  (BTW, my profile is under "JavaBrain" there since somebody registered "KarmaGirl" as soon as I started using it as my "admin" name.....)  However, DA is not moderated.  you can upload anything there.  You can upload a snapshot of your big toe if you want.....which is one of the reasons that they need subscribers to pay for all that space and bandwidth

Citizen f0rTyLeGz 

sorry....your copy-paste of my comment was a little un-selective and included the page, wrecking the thread layout...so both had to be removed.

Could you post again...a wee bit more carefully?...

k sorry I will do it again... wish I could preview first lol.

Jafo said> Photographs will very rarely be accepted

I.R. Brainiac said> this however isnt really a photo kind of site.

I didn't know that this wasn't a "photo kind of site," and several of my early submissions were accepted with low ratings, and got plenty of downloads. Then, one was accepted with an 8 rating, and it has had 12000 downloads or more. It was the most downloaded for many days before the Dec crash, and made it to page 5 of the most downloaded in a month. None of my submissions have been accepted since that one.

Had I known that this was "not a photo kind of site," I wouldn't have spent all this time submitting here... and why has "Pillar of Light" been accepted and doing so well with so many?

The word of importance is 'rarely'.

Some photographs do make it past moderation, but not all....just as some Generated landscapes will...but not all..some reflective, glassy floating balls of Bryce....but definitely not all....

Since the advent of digital cameras it has become within the capacity of any and every shutterbug to have a simple facility to create/submit digital images....not even needing emulsion development, scanning, etc as was the past.  Needless to say literally every man and his dog and their fleas could submit photographs ad nauseum unless there was some form of checks and balances.

Yours was a nice photo...particularly if you liked beaches and boats...but can mean a lot more to the photographer [holiday snap] than to his audience, meaning it's less likely to become someone else's wall, where the picture-taker may have a greater affinity for it...

Jafo you say that>Needless to say literally every man and his dog and their fleas could submit photographs ad nauseum unless there was some form of checks and balances.<

I kind of think you are missing what I am saying... I'm not defending the rights of "every man and his dog." I'm making beautiful wallpapers... the people like them and downloaded them by the thousands, but they "RARELY" get accepted (4), and half of those with a 4 ranking.

If WinCustomize in general believes that since the advent of digital cameras, dogs, their masters, and the fleas on the dog, are calling their snapshots art and sending them to your over burdened servers, and that they would bring down the spirit and very meaning of this site (unless they are DISCOURAGED FROM POSTING THEM BY BAD RATINGS AND "RARELY" BEING ACCEEPTED- as a policy), then it might be better for me to stop wasting my time posting my little snaps here? I didn't understand...

thanks for the help.

Sometimes here does accept photos, like my brother's amazing pumpkin picture.

how bout any of those britney and madonna ones?