How Do I Unwatch You, DeviantArt?

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(Caution, semi-rant)

Has anyone else noticed this yet? Has anyone else found a way to -stop- noticing this yet? Is anyone else as (mildly) irritated by it as I am?

dA (a website, not a newspaper) keeps sending out these 'Hot Topic' things. They're not news... They're not site updates... They appear to be plugs of artists I don't want to watch by people I don't watch. (bonus irritation points if the person plugged is either a mod or a mod's friend)

I have nothing against plugging. Underexposed artists getting some love makes the world go round. But there's something just a little iffy about mods/whoever they are getting to plug these select few artists/friends to everyone on dA.

Maybe it's because the excellent DD system already exists, where you, the consumer can nominate what you find awesome and share the loving. Maybe it's because I can find equally awesome artists, or ones that appeal to me more just by browsing; artists who are not going to get this mega-exposure. Maybe it's because whenever I see a new message in that part of the message center, I always have to go look under the idea that it's going to be something important but it turns out to be a plug again and dA has totally trolled me. TROLLED.

Whatever the reason, I find this all (mildly) irritating... and would like to learn how to turn it off, because I sure don't remember turning it on.

(Now it's your turn!)
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YipeeYoYipeeYay's avatar
Yes THIS! deviantART hot topics are pretty much junk :XD:


See, this could be the new symbol for those so-called 'messages' --------->> :trash: