DA's UNEQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

I'm writing this because what follows is certainly not what DA promised us all with their plethora of updates for supposedly getting new/unseen artists out there to us all!

I logged into DA this morning as usual and i thought i would take a look at the Halloween images tag (before going to my page gallery etc.); as i wanted to see what other members had uploaded for this year, 2014. Apart from the number of pieces i uploaded there must have been hundreds, possibly thousands, of members who presented Halloween artwork. What i saw was artwork from 1-3 days, weeks, months and even a few from 3 years ago. How is that supposed to be givng awareness to newer or not well known members work? I've long suspected that DA staff have played to their little group of personal favourites and that many, MANY talented artists are not getting a fair crack at the whip.

I have been a member for 9 years and in all that time i have only ever seen 3 artists whose names/art i recognized. I personally think a lot of members are being ignored.....just like the members who have negative things to say about the DA updates etc. I do however keep seeing the same artists getting exposure over and over and OVER again, time after time. You would think that there was only a few hundred DA members rather than the purportedly 22,000,000 million!

I don't have the time to look through every DA members portfolios so i leave it to DA staff/admins/volunteers etc. to at least show a few new artists i may have missed. If (for example) they put 10 pieces of artwork that they have chosen on the site i can guarentee that on a constant basis i will see at least 6-7 artists that are allways there.

Am i mistaken, or have you yourselves noticed this? Has anyone ever mentioned this to DA?

UPDATE: Monday/3/November/2014.....Oops! It seems that i either spoke too soon or i was too late in mentioning the topic written about. I did another check yesterday and another today and i now see loads of new artists uploads.....with not one artist that i was allready aware of. Good on you DA

If you have taken the time to read this.....