Hey folks,

I hope you are well.

A smaller feature of thumbs than I usually do (I'm sure some may be breathing a sigh of relief ) as I'm pushed for time at the moment. Thought I'd do my best to stoke the fires of community spirit that time allowed for.

What I'm referring to in the main title is the (currently) infuriating process of trying to thank people on their front pages. Without wishing to sound arrogant, I've been getting a lot of 's recently (and at this point I'd like to insert a big thank you to those who've featured my work in journals or news pieces - much appreciated. ) and as I've been busy, they've been piling up in my message centre. I try and get back to everyone if I can to thank them for adding one of my pieces to their 's or to a collection that they have - it seems only right and fair. To save time, I usually use a cut and paste method as finding 100+ ways of saying thank you is difficult.

However, this has been incredibly difficult recently as I'm constantly being confronted by that fucking 500 Internal Error, due to the system thinking my posting is the action of a spambot. It can sometimes take up to 10 minutes before I can post again and then after a few posts, I'm back into the 500 territory.

I understand DA's need to have measures against spambots, but I'm not the first person who has said something on here recently about the irritation caused by this feature of DA. It seems to have gotten worse recently, and I can only presume that it's functionality has been upped somewhat.

So, it's with a heavy heart that I might have to curtail thanking people as I would like to, perhaps by putting a message at the bottom of each new deviation thanking people in advance. I don't want to do this for the reason I mentioned above, plus visiting people's pages who are unknown to me is a good way of discovering artists whose work admire, from all disciplines, not just photography.

Anyway, bitching over and done with. I hope you've had a good week and enjoy the thumbs.

Peace, Love & Happiness,
Michael.



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