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The list has been updated and now shows all active members who commented at least twice between the 7th and 14th of November. Any new submissions will be reviewed according to the new rules and the new list from now
^{Don't worry if your submission is still pending and you didn't have time to comment last week. We still have the old list saved}

New Rules

As some of you may have noticed, there are some changes coming! We got a lot of new members recently, more comments and submissions than ever before and our old system reached its limits. We used to go through our gallery to look for new comments and write them down in a long list. Manually. Every day. You can imagine that this took a lot of time which could have been used for much better things - giving feedback for example

So, we contacted =parallellogic who already showed some of his magic in his clubSEARCH and deviantSEARCH programs. He kindly wrote a script that will collect all the comments automatically. His work will make things a lot easier for us. Thank you!!

Now, what does that mean for you, our members? We had to tweak some of the rules but by and large we think we made things easier and more transparent for you. If you’re sincerely interested in helping out other Deviants, if you give feedback on a regular basis and enjoy sharing your knowledge, nothing has changed. Anyone who is active, anyone who is devoted to give feedback and critique, anyone who really wants to help the artist and gives constructive comments is and will be allowed to submit their own work to our gallery. Submitting your work should be a nice extra feature to have, not the reason why you give feedback in the first place. If you don’t have the intrinsic motivation to critique other Deviants’ work, this is not the right group for you. We’re called “GimmeFeedback” and not “GetFeedback” for a reason

To make sure people don’t abuse our system and want to take advantage without actively contributing to our group, we have to set up some rules. Only those who have given at least two constructive, helpful comments in the last week are considered “active” and are allowed to submit in the next week. You can easily check whether you are active by looking at our active members list:

Active members #-H Active members I-Q Active members R-Z

What has changed about this is that a) the list is public so you can easily check your “status” b) the list contains comments made on ALL the Deviations in our gallery, regardless of the date they were posted (except for mature content and film Deviations, we’re working on that) c) the list is only updated once a week. That means if you give feedback you will not appear on this list until the next weekend when it’s updated. If you give feedback on a regular basis this won’t bother you, but if you are new or busy, you have to wait a bit before being able to submit your work.

Please also note, that only because you appear on the list, your submissions will not automatically be approved. We also check the quality of the comments made (that’s what the links are for) and the “one submission per week” rule still applies. That means when you submit something you have to wait at least 7 days until you can submit another piece. Which submissions were accepted into our gallery on what date can be found here: [link]

We wrote a blog that contains detailed explanations of how #GimmeFeedback is going to work from now on. You can find it here: [link] We know it is a lot to read, but we hope to eliminate some (hopefully all ) of the confusion that has appeared on some points in our rules and to not only tell you how we do things, but why we do things that way.
A TL;DR version can be found in our FAQ for future reference

If you have any remaining questions or didn’t understand some of our explanations (it’s kinda hard to put something into words that has been going round and round in your head for weeks ) please contact us via that nice big button on our front page.
Now, get some tea and biscuits and happy reading

Your GimmeFeedback Team