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I've seen the latest journal, and it doesn't pacify me in the least. I believe LadyBrookeCelebwen summed up my opinions best before I got the chance:

The decision on what to do with the points shouldn't be made by you. The people who donated the points donated them to DLD, and looking through the people in the widget, many of them are the same people that are outright furious at all of this. Hand over the group, let the points sit (but that would a shame), give them to the people most of us associate with DLD - which would be the admins that have been active and posting the journals, giving the features, etc - if they start a new group. But not to some group that is approved by you, on the basis of who 'doesn't seem interested in the kudos of serving the lit community", when you've made decisions without any of the active admins.

Any points given were given because people trusted them to run things and make decisions. Much of the lit community at this point doesn't trust you, and whether you find that fair or not, it's the facts.


I'd love to send her a note about getting my old job back, but I don't really want a part of any group sanctioned by someone I don't really trust at the moment. Further, if she wants to redistribute those points, they need to go back to the people who gave them to the DLD account in the first place.

I've yet to read a valid reason for this shutdown. None of the problems mentioned thus far are things that could not have been fixed, quickly and quietly. There's no reason to have to lose all that infrastructure and start anew, but if that's what it comes down to, we will.




If you're watching me, then I'm sure you've already heard the news.

Closing...EDIT: 1) I am enabling comments because of such strong response to this journal. 2) This account has NOT been hacked, I own it--I have all the proper documentation that proves so. 3) We are not closing simply because of an error. That resignation just made me think that it was probably time to close. DLD has been a wonderful part of the lit community, but it has run it's course. This has been in my thoughts for some time and now just seems the time to bring it to an end. I apologize to all of you who are disappointed.
It has been 5 years since the birth of DailyLitDeviations and we recently published an article on the history of DLD that I had to take down. The article was unintentionally incorrect. It gave credit for co-founding to a deviant who was only an admin, who never had the account password, and who did not take part in the initial chatroom conversation that spawned DLD. That conversation occurred between Will VertigoArt and Brandon Eloquent-Weapon. They were th


And you've probably already seen the reaction.

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I'm angered on several levels; firstly, the entire fiasco is over misinformation in an article. Why the article was taken down instead of edited is beyond me. Why the entire group needs to be shutdown because one of the admins left is also beyond me.

Secondly, kersee9 acted on her own, and I heard about it at the exact same time everyone else did. She has not been active on dA in some time, and hasn't been active with DLD for an even longer time. The account was kept in her name as it were, but spoems and I have been Co-Founders for a while now - before us it was LiliWrites.

Thirdly, that the decision was made alone. DLD is a team effort in which the entire literature community is the team. A half-dozen or so admins may run it, but our suggestions come from YOU. This is where new deviants come to find great writing and where new talents get a chance to shine. This is YOUR group.




Which is why, despite this whole fiasco, I'm grateful to see the outpouring of support from so many deviants:

I have so much love for you and DLD, Lauren. :heart: It's an amazing place. Amazing. It makes our community so much greater. :love:

chromeantennae

DailyLitDeviations has been a pretty big part of my dA experience from following their articles, to the OMGOMGOMG feeling I got when my first piece was featured... then I finally got the courage to send in an application for a poetry admin and when I got the response; it was another OMGOMGOMG! moment! To all the individuals who were there for every or each moment of DLD awesomeness, again, THANK YOU!

WorldWar-Tori

this is sad, but from the amount of comments already left on this, I think the lit community will be able to move over to a new group, if for some reason she doesn't get her big-girl pants back on and pass the group onto someone else. The group's just a name for a community of awesome people.

vespera

I greatly admire how you've kept your composure on something that means a lot, not only to you, but to the entire dA community.

I've only started being active about the last six months, but I've already had my first DLD and gotten a piece I really admire to DLD (then DD) status. I appreciate all you to do keep DLD running in the past and hopefully in the future.


WeirdAndLovely

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.

DorianHarper

I think the response clearly shows that DLD hasn't "had its run."  No one's going anywhere right now.

laurotica

I really don't see the logic in this decision. I'm glad you amended this journal to point out that my decision to resign should have nothing whatsoever to do with your seemingly irrational decision to close down an institution because of an egoic and petty dispute over who had the most influence in creating DLD. The whole point of DLD was to emphasize literature and not the egos of the admins. This course of action is the antithesis of what the group stood for. Frankly, DLD is bigger than you or me or any one individual. It is not justifiable for you to decide the fate of an institution to satisfy an old grudge or because you think the group has strayed from some original doctrine. I humbly request that you reconsider your rash decision and give DLD back to the community where it belongs.

spoems

DLD has helped me to gain a footing in the world of poetry, has introduced me to my current boyfriend of a year and a half, and has been helping the Literature community support its members. It is in NO WAY obsolete or "at the end of its run" given the benefits it provides to the writers it helps celebrate.

In such a vastly visual community, sometimes DLD feels like the only way the literary community can foster recognition amongst itself and let our brilliant writers understand that their art IS noticed! By shutting this page down, you would kill a community and all the hard work that was put in to help acknowledge work.

Shutting down this page without first trying other alternatives would be cruel and unfair to the Lit community. Your differing opinion doesn't justify the right to hold an entire community hostage.


callerofcrows

I understand you've already pulled yourself out of this community you once started, but for you to let it die like this, would be such a great loss for all us writers on dA. It's our meeting hub, the place were we find new talents and once in a while find our friends (or selves) rewarded by like-minded minds who have enjoyed what we've written. It's that reward that we all strive for and fills us with pride and the wish to become better and better (:


Lady-Yume

Just a few of the comments I've seen out and about. More to be added as I find them (or if you want to send me some, bring it!)

Your friendly neighborhood Admin of Awesome Literature,



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I was so incredibly surprised to see this all in my inbox today - I've only been stopping in briefly on dA the past couple of weeks just because of life getting in my way of other things, but I've spent a good two hours tonight just reading through everything that's happened. I'm just so surprised. I don't even know what to say about it all.

But I am glad to see that there's going to be a new group in the same vein. :)