No recourse for their Automated decisions
Deviant Art's guidelines are vague in the extreme. It's very difficult to determine whether or not a picture falls outside the rules. Further, Deviant Art uses an AI algorithm to judge your pictures. If the AI deems the bad, you are permanently banned from the site, without even knowing what it was about your picture that tripped the AI. So, even if the AI was in error, it is "all decisions are final." I have found several pieces of art on DeviantArt similar to the one that got me banned. I cannot see any difference. Further, they take hostage any and all artwork you had on the site and delete it, without providing a chance to download it back. Yes, I had back up images, but it would have been beneficial to retrieve the descriptions, etc. They don't offer refunds for CORE in this case, either.