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Recently my team and I worked tirelessly on a project to help improve the gallery descriptions and thumbnail examples.  While that project was indeed tedious with almost 4,000 categories in our system, it was also educational.  What I learned from sorting through thousands and thousands of categories was that we have a lot of redundancy and a lot of categories that seem to have been created on a whim that are now simply homes for junk.
Over the years, the desire to appease niche communities and people who just wanted a specific area has led to some categories that go up to 4 levels deep, and it's really no wonder it's so confusing for people to figure out where to submit their artwork.
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Welcome 4 New Volunteers

Thu Nov 29, 2012, 11:15 AM by ^Lyricanna:iconlyricanna:


 ^PolyMune, `Endorell-Taelos, ^Katara-Alchemist and `Nyiana-Sama!

Please join us in welcoming new additions to the Community Volunteer Team! :love:

^PolyMune Game Development Art


^Katara-Alchemist Chats and Forums


`Endorell-Taelos Chats and Forums


`Nyiana-Sama (welcome back) Chats and Forums



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Mood: Love =Nxriot Dec 1, 2012  Student General Artist
:dalove: Welcome and Congrats! :squee:
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`phoenixleo Nov 30, 2012
Good! :)
Congratulations and welcome (back) to the team!
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*XilaPhoenixArt Nov 30, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Congratulations, I'm sure you'll all do a fantastic job! :hug:
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=Firey-Flamy Nov 30, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Congratulations! :dummy:
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^alltheoriginalnames Nov 30, 2012
Welcome :wave:
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`Endorell-Taelos Nov 30, 2012
I still cannot get over my hat. But I am very happy to be apart of the team and working with everyone, my mentor buddy and Danie. :iconlovesqueeplz:
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^NicSwaner Nov 30, 2012  Student Writer
:la: Congratulations!
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^neurotype Nov 29, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
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`JamminJo Nov 29, 2012   Photographer
Congratulations to all the new CV's :woohoo:
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