Being a Chat/Forum Volunteer: Our insights by Mrs-Durden, journal
Being a Chat/Forum Volunteer: Our insights
Community Week
As most of you know, DeviantArt has a chat (https://www.deviantart.com/chat) network and a forum (https://www.deviantart.com/forum). As such, there are Community Volunteers responsible for moderating the chats and forums (with #devart (https://chat.deviantart.com/chat/devart) being the main official chatroom moderated by CVs). While this is an enjoyable role overall, being a chat/forum volunteer comes with many challenges and is also a role rife with misinterpretation and misconceptions. In light of that, I'm presenting you with a mini interview of sorts done with some of us chat/forum volunteers.
If you have more questions for us, please leave them as a comment on this journal!
1. Do you have a preference between the chats or the
Once again, the Community Relations team is here to feature the artworks of DeviantArt's beloved forumers! AND feature a member of the forum community!
Once a month, we select one active member from the forums and we feature his or her gallery. This is someone we believe represents the forums well with both good forum-abilities and art. We are now taking quotes and doing mini-interviews with the community about each month's selected forumer, in order to further bring the community together!
As we're kind (and awesome), we also decided to give an opportunity for everybody to get featured! Every month, we create a thread in the Deviation Thum
Forum Features #64: Family! by Mrs-Durden, journal
Forum Features #64: Family!
Once again, the Community Relations team is here to feature the artworks of DeviantArt's beloved forumers! AND feature a member of the forum community!
Once a month, we select one active member from the forums and we feature his or her gallery. This is someone we believe represents the forums well with both good forum-abilities and art. We are now taking quotes and doing mini-interviews with the community about each month's selected forumer, in order to further bring the community together!
As we're kind (and awesome), we also decided to give an opportunity for everybody to get featured! Every month, we create a thread in the Deviation Thum
Once again, the Community Relations team is here to feature the artworks of DeviantArt's beloved forumers! AND feature a member of the forum community!
Once a month, we select one active member from the forums and we feature his or her gallery. This is someone we believe represents the forums well with both good forum-abilities and art. We are now taking quotes and doing mini-interviews with the community about each month's selected forumer, in order to further bring the community together!
As we're kind (and awesome), we also decided to give an opportunity for everybody to get featured! Every month, we create a thread in the Deviation Thum
Forum Features #62: Nature! by Mrs-Durden, journal
Forum Features #62: Nature!
Once again, the Community Relations team is here to feature the artworks of DeviantArt's beloved forumers! AND feature a member of the forum community!
Once a month, we select one active member from the forums and we feature his or her gallery. This is someone we believe represents the forums well with both good forum-abilities and art. We are now taking quotes and doing mini-interviews with the community about each month's selected forumer, in order to further bring the community together!
As we're kind (and awesome), we also decided to give an opportunity for everybody to get featured! Every month, we create a thread in the Deviation Thum
Once again, the Community Relations team is here to feature the artworks of DeviantArt's beloved forumers! AND feature a member of the forum community!
Once a month, we select one active member from the forums and we feature his or her gallery. This is someone we believe represents the forums well with both good forum-abilities and art. We are now taking quotes and doing mini-interviews with the community about each month's selected forumer, in order to further bring the community together!
As we're kind (and awesome), we also decided to give an opportunity for everybody to get featured! Every month, we create a thread in the Deviation Thum
Once again, the Community Relations team is here to feature the artworks of DeviantArt's beloved forumers! AND feature a member of the forum community!
Once a month, we select one active member from the forums and we feature his or her gallery. This is someone we believe represents the forums well with both good forum-abilities and art. We are now taking quotes and doing mini-interviews with the community about each month's selected forumer, in order to further bring the community together!
As we're kind (and awesome), we also decided to give an opportunity for everybody to get featured! Every month, we create a thread in the Deviation Thum
Deviation ThumbShare: Monthly Art Contest Winner by Mrs-Durden, journal
Deviation ThumbShare: Monthly Art Contest Winner
This past month the Community Relations team hosted a Monthly Art Contest in the Deviation ThumbShare forum. Deviants had 28 days to submit artwork related to the designated team, and a winner would be selected from the pool of submissions, to receive a 3 month Core Membership or the equivalent 1,200 .
The theme for September was childhood.
The winner is Tekila-onRice (https://www.deviantart.com/tekila-onrice) with:
The three runner-ups are:
TenshiHime7 (https://www.deviantart.com/tenshihime7) with:
KassandraN (https://www.deviantart.com/kassandran) with:
salival (https://www.deviantart.com/salival) with:
Other submissions:
Forum Features #59: Dessert! by Mrs-Durden, journal
Forum Features #59: Dessert!
Once again, the Community Relations team is here to feature the artworks of DeviantArt's beloved forumers! AND feature a member of the forum community!
Once a month, we select one active member from the forums and we feature his or her gallery. This is someone we believe represents the forums well with both good forum-abilities and art. We are now taking quotes and doing mini-interviews with the community about each month's selected forumer, in order to further bring the community together!
As we're kind (and awesome), we also decided to give an opportunity for everybody to get featured! Every month, we create a thread in the Deviation Thum
DA's 15th Birthday: Chat/Forum Events! by Mrs-Durden, journal
DA's 15th Birthday: Chat/Forum Events!
To celebrate DeviantArt's 15th Birthday, the Community Relations team has come together to run many exciting events! Are you looking to win some prizes and have loads of fun? Well consider joining as many of these chat and forum events as you can! Many many core memberships and point donations will be awarded to winners and participants! :eager:
All chat events occur in the CommunityRelations chatroom and will occur on August 7th!
:star: All times listed are in LA, California time (Pacific Time). Please use a time converter to figure out when events are happening in terms of your own time zone! (ex: http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/)
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