Reading: The Tipping Point
Watching: Batman Begins

To conclude Scaling the Deviants and Scaling the Deviants part Deux for those who have read both:

Lets take the XYZ example with ©suzi9mm in Deux and reapply it to deviantART with Groups in place. For reference it was theorized that time spent (X), frequent popularity of submission (Y) and unique participation (Z) in the current flat community system generally brought to light the deviants who had high levels of (X)(Y)(Z) and often failed to properly recognize deviants lacking in any of those areas.

So if you spend lots of time on deviantART, posting high quality submissions and doing something unique, you will become remarkably well known. It's not as easy as it sounds though:

Examples of (X): Many deviants according to our stats spend upwards of 200 pages per visit or more. Some deviants spend over eight hours per day in some way interacting in the community. Every day. These deviants hold a high (X) factor. Another way to qualify is to make concerted strategic efforts to seem very active; posting journals and deviations every single day for a year even if it only takes 10 minutes to do also constitutes a high X factor.

Examples of (Y): Great submissions to the site come often from artists like `jasinski as an example, but high quality art work is not the requirement to succeed in this system. Popularity of the submission and the cumulative popularity of the deviant matters more.

Examples of (Z): Unique participation could be illustrated by deviants like ©suzi9mm and +cweeks as examples. Suzi posts tantalizing journals so regularly that you could conclude she has a deliberate fascination with exciting people. And Chris gives you insight in to the world of celebrity photography that makes reading his journal better and more reliable than reading tabloids in the checkout line at times.

To prove this, I actually asked IT to provide me with a list of the most popular deviants on deviantART at this very moment judged by page views. Lets see a few:

1. 3,198,292 *bleedman receives over 10,000 page views per day on average.

2. 2,177,699 ©suzi9mm
3. 1,916,192 *pu-sama
4. 1,809,795 *bri-chan
5. 1,474,909 ~Kasteo
6. 1,297,843 *messa
7. 1,277,910 =larafairie
8. 1,247,243 =kittynn
9. 1,131,831 ~teentitans
10. 1,041,535 ~kakbarnf

If you look closely at every one of those deviants, you find an interesting trend! Art that is popular. High rate of participation in the community; regular journal posts, regular art submissions. And unique participation!

The most interesting? ~teentitans receive 6,500 hits per day on average, and they're a club with a listed hierarchy in the most recent journal that appears to always be there.

Groups will be a simple system for users, it will take years for the deviantART society to embrace it properly, but the sooner it launches the sooner that process begins. It'll appear simple as can be at first; much like IRC is generally quite simple. But the impact of the system is much of what has been discussed in the past three journals.

And that is something to look forward to. Estimated implementation time: September.


blings

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