At this stage comments will stay on by default.
But only if you all learn to play nice.
This is DAS it is not a place to attack a secret tellers art skills. It is not a place to attack a secret teller for spilling their heart and soul.
Comments like "You suck / You need to be shot / WTF kinda heartless bitch are you " These comments are not wanted or needed.
Replying to someone else's comment saying something along the lines of "Ohh I love your signature" what on earth does someones comment have to do with the secret that has been told? You need to stick to the topic, being the secret.
If DAS decides comments will be turned off, more information will be given in here.

Also, DAS is not a school. We have people aged 13 sending secrets in, from countries all over the world. All from different backgrounds. In secrets, spelling or grammar that isn't perfect is not a problem. DAS is about getting a ST's secret out, not to make them feel stupid or dumb because their spelling or grammar isn't up to your standards. You are more then welcome to comment about a persons secret. But we do not accept comments about people correcting someone's spelling or grammar.

Read secret
read the secret again
read artist comment ( if there is one always check)
Stop and think about the secret
Put yourself in the secret tellers shoes
Read the secret again
Think about what you would like to say
Type out your comment
Read the secret again
Read your comment again
Would this comment upset or make you feel bad? ( if so backspace and think more about what you would like to say)

A few of you have asked about this, so this is the method of how we deal with these kinds of things.

If you are found posting silly comments, depending on what its about, it may just be hidden. If we feel its needed you will be sent a note letting you know your comment has been hidden, then giving you a warning that we don't accept that kind of comments.

If you make the same mistake again, your comment will be hidden, you will then be sent another warning reminding you of the rules, this will be your last warning.

Next time you dont follow the rules you will be blocked from DAS then unblocked right away _{(this will remove you from watching us)}

You are more then welcome to re watch us, but be warned if you dont follow the rules you will be blocked for a month.

After that month is up you will be unblocked if you do the same thing again your will be blocked for longer. If this happens again you may find yourself blocked for good.

As you can see you are given many chances dont blow it for everyone else.

Those of you who use hotmail/MSN/Windowslive to send your emails, there is a new windowslive email program.
If you are using this, when you send an attachment it will send in a way that the only way it can be viewed is to download it.
This causes a big problem with us. As we don't download any secrets until we have first viewed the secret.
If you use this new program, you will need to go to the hotmail.com and send it the old way using the old method.
Sorry for any trouble this may cause you.
Thank you for your understanding.

~Secret-Teller is an account that you can use to comment on your own secrets.
But please remember to read all the rules the account has. If this account is abused again it will be blacklisted from DAS.

Inspiration for this project was from - PostSecret

“The ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a home made postcard”

We are not in any way affiliated with PostSecret but would like to call DeviantArtSecret a “Spin-off” project that was inspired by it. Check out the PostSecret website and buy the books. Examples of Secrets can be found here or in the PostSecret books. There are now three different PostSecret books.