I agree with `Synfull. The miscellaneous gallery is very nondescript and would be better if it was deleted. It causes confusion and about everything that goes into it can be sorted into either visual purpose or chat friendly unless it is a miscat.

I don't think that getting rid of the projects gallery would be wise even though it doesn't get a lot of traffic. Projects are, and have been, very important to the community and they'd get lost if sorted into visual purpose or chat friendly. I believe that it serves a good enough purpose to remain in our emoticon gallery. I think the same way about the packs gallery. If it could be done, `Synfull's suggestion about the restricting the packs gallery to .zip files would be a good way to keep miscats out.

I agree with you that we should keep the animated and static separation with small, medium, and large. I think that if we were to do away with the animated and static separation, static emotes may get buried when viewing popular overall. Also I do actually enjoy having the ability to see either only static or only animated. It helps when I want to find inspiration that I can feed off of to make my art better. Both require some different skill sets and them being in separate sub-galleries help a lot for viewing purposes in my opinion.

I also agree with *a-kid-at-heart. Having a gallery folder where miscellaneous gifs could go and stay would be a great way to prevent miscats in our gallery. I don't believe that the miscellaneous gallery already in place in our gallery does that. To be effective, I think that it'd have to be under the customization sub-gallery rather than the emoticon one (like *a-kid-at-heart suggests). I don't know if this is in your ability as a CV but it would be great if it could be done.

Like `Krissi001 said, deviants won't stop mis-categorizing deviations. Having as many sub-galleries as we do, it must be hard weeding through and getting rid of miscats. Yet I believe that if we do cut down our sub-galleries, it will not help with preventing miscats at all. The miscats that deviants place in projects and packs will then just be sorted into chat friendly, visual purpose, or miscellaneous instead.

A monthly contest from you would be good for the community. The more variety we have the better yet then again I think that, because we do have `SparklyDest's EMTC, having another monthly contest to accompany that wouldn't be too beneficial since our community is fairly small in general. Yet that may not be the case. I think promotion and contribution to ongoing events and contests would be very beneficial. Contests or no contests, overall, more art creation, collaborations, and interactions are the most needed things in this community and if you can accomplish and reinforce that then that's all that counts. c:

I have to agree with *a-kid-at-heart, deviants won't stop to submit miscats to the gallery. :C It is better to have a place where they can submit what they want, so the "main" gallery has lesser miscats.

I don't believe restricting the current folder options will reduce the miscats, just cause them to be mixed in even more with emoticons.

Maybe what you need is a folder that better represents the typical miscat. (Customization - Misc GIF - Animated GIF's/Static GIF's - Sm/Md/Lg) People certainly produce a large number of those type of .gif images, but don't seem to know where to place them, so give them a better option to choose.

I think it's okay as it is, but I suggest giving a size restriction to project bases and templates. Usually emote templates are 150x150 or smaller, and the miscats are generally larger than that, so it would remove all those pony bases (I don't know if that's even possible but it would be awesome )