Sorry I've been so quiet, I've had.... issues with dA.
Imagine my shock when I logged onto dA to find my account, and most of what was in it, banned and deleted!



PROFILE EDITED BY

phenol


The reason I was banned? I never saw the art itself, but I got a notice before I was unbanned:

AquillaLight,

An administrator has removed your 1 deviation as being a violation of official deviantART policy.

Title: phenol
URL: [link]
Submitted: 2007-09-11 5:52:09 am

Your 1 deviation may have been judged to be:
    1. Racist, or bigoted.
    2. Anti-Semitic or other otherwise directly offensive to a philosophy or religion.
    3. Directly insulting to an individual or group.

Alternatively it may have featured:
    1. Underage nudity.
    2. Sexual acts or “adult toys”.
    3. The gratuitous display of genitalia.
    4. Real life self-mutilation or injury.

It is also possible that the content of your deviation did not match one of the above suggested reasons but was still judged to be in violation of one or more of our policies. If you routinely submit offensive content you may have your account suspended for a period of time or banned.

If you feel this removal was in error, or have questions regarding it, then please visit the deviantART Help Desk in order to submit a Policy Violation Inquiry. Be certain to include the above link and title of your deviation in your inquiry for a prompt response.

Please do not reply to this note as it is an automated process and will not be answered and please do not bring these issues into the Forums or other areas of deviantART.

Thank you,
deviantART staff

This is nothing I did for attention, but a smearjob based on the fact I am a furry and not welcomed in the eyes of the hacker.

Phenol lost the battle to remove all furries from the world. I'm not crawling away from what I love with my tail between my legs. I've felt dishonored and shamed from this, and will discontinue to use this account.
Aquilla also reminds me of a time I've been forced to do something I never wanted to do, and wish to leave the painful memory in the past, where it belongs.


Don't be alarmed if your faves from here (either if I added your art to my faves, or you my art in your favorites) vanish. They'll be back.


Once in some months past, I put money in Paypal to get a paid account here. I've since sent the money to someone in need, and due to the trouble trying to contact the RIGHT people to actually get my account reinstated, it's shaken my interest in a paid account. Why bother getting one when the service is not prompt?

I am grateful though, they were able to use a server backup to recreate my account as it was BEFORE the hacker stepped into it.


PLEASE do not gift this account. I've made my choice to abandon this account due to the shame brought on by the hacker.

Edit Removed most of my watches, put all my work into scraps to eventually remove, and am starting the process of my faves.

Edit2 GRRR! It seems to have just eaten all my work after I located a storage option. Now I have no deviations in EITHER Public or storage! Hopefully the DataBase server just went down, instead of eating some 80 things I was trying to move off here in time....