30 Ways To Pimp Out Your Account Without Working Hard
Or, "A Newb's Guide To Percieved Popularity!"

Thanks to Wazzdakka for reminding me the (s)he was the original source of this guide, as i forgot who the author was and could not properly credit them

1) Post porn. Oh, I'm sorry, I meant artistic nude pictures.

2) Be a forum whore. If you go to bed after a posting spree, wake up, check your dA inbox, and don't see at least (15F) up there, you're not trying hard enough.

3) Go to the dA main page. Go to Today. Go down the list of new Deviants and greet every single one of them.

4) Make really awesome art and pimp it out in Thumbshare.

5) Make shitloads of really crap art and pimp it out in Thumbshare.

6) Be extraordinarily rascist/political/religious. Indicate this in every comment or forum post (I suggest a signature that says, "Jesus lives in you! Unless you're a fag, a Muslim, or a Mexican!").

7) Post everywhere. Shoutboxes, forums, journals, deviations, news posts, everywhere. Make your name known to everyone.

8) Acquire an animated anime avatar. Yay for alliteration!*

9) Fill your signature (other than the one from #6) with Japanese characters in a rough sentance. Doesn't even have to be correct, just so long as it includes "kawaii", "neko", and anything ending with "-chan" or "-kun". Anime fangirls will swarm you.

10) Be a supreme asshole in the forums. The people who hate you will know your name, and the people who agree with you (IE, other assholes) will flock to you like a fat kid on a cupcake.

11) Become any kind of member higher than a subscriber (this can take time). Even if you only have a ` in front of your name (let alone a $, or a @ or something), people will notice and go to your page.

12) Post "Hi! I'm new!" threads in the Welcome forum. No, I mean, post one like, every week.

13) Find large threads like “Word Association”, “What R u lisining 2 rite now!??”, and “Who’s the toughest video game boss you ever fought?”. Reply to them with a relevant comment, then go through and reply to the comment of every other person in the thread until you die of exhaustion. Everyone you send it to will see your name, plus you’ll be one of the most active Deviants in the thread.

14) On a similar note, find a “What are you listening to?” thread and bookmark it. Reply to it. As soon as two other people reply below you, reply again. Continue until death. This will have an effect similar to that of #13.

15) +devwatch everyone who watches you. This leads people into a false sense of loyalty and they’ll stop by every once in a while to see how you’re doing.

16) Post a thread about how anime isn’t really art. Every 14 year old fangirl who comes to your page to yell at you in broken Japanese adds to your pageviews. Remember, people liking you has nothing to do with your popularity – this is about pageviews.

17) Go down the Welcome forum. Reply to every thread with a emote and “Hello!”.

18) Get a subscription. Seriously. When impressionable newbies (whose threads you’ve already spammed to death with greetings messages) see a Subscriber or Beta Tester talking to them, they’re more likely to pay attention and see who you are. This only works until they learn that a third of dA falls into one of those categories. Also, paying $30 a year for a sub gets you another forum to pimp out.

19) Fuck it, post your own “What are you listening to?” thread. God knows there’s enough of them already, may as well add yours.

20) Randomly click on someone’s name in the forums, someone you haven’t spoken to yet. Go to their gallery, leave a comment on their page that says “I ur art!” and then fav at least five of their Deviations. This should entice them to visit you. For added efficiency, you can remove their Deviations from your fav list the next day, so people don’t catch on and accuse you of being a fav-whore.

21) Add a list of all your friends at the bottom of your journal. As in #15, this leads people to believe that you actually like them and they may come visit you later.

22) Join every group you hear of. Even if it doesn’t apply to you. You’re Polish and want to join ? Try anyway and say you’re doing it out of support. If they won’t let you, watch the club anyway and people might assume you’re in it by mistake.

23) Either spell perfectly and use proper grammar all the time to appear more intelligent (and therefore, more interesting), or mangle the English language to the point where people come to your page just to cuss out your horrid typing skills.

24) Post drunk. I mean, really drunk. Or even just act drunk. Make a thread about being drunk, complete with blatant misspellings, etc. The alcoholics will think it’s funny and possibly go to your page to see who you are. Nobody else matters anyway so who cares about them.

25) Make a huge list of ways to get more pageviews, compile them into your journal, then link to it in your signature. Why are you looking at me like that?

26) Put the obligatory “FREE PORN” link in your sig that actually leads to your gallery. However, only make one letter (I suggest the P) lead to your gallery, and let the rest actually lead to free porn. People will return to you constantly for free nudity (especially those at work or school who don’t want to type in the URL and have it in their history), and every once in a while one will click the P and give you a free view.

27) Go through Thumbshare, noting every thread that promises comments/favs if you do theirs. Utilise all of them. They have to give you a view to comment or fav your work. Then be a bastard and un-fav all their stuff.

28) Several times a day, go to the main page Shoutbox and type, “Hello everybody!”. Press Enter. Go about your business. Within a week you’ll have dozens of Shouts without having to actually think about them.

29) Make a journal poll about a hot political topic, especially a heavily biased one. They attract attention like a ferret draws stench.

30) If you’re not subbed yet, play yourself off as a newbie and ask for friends because you’re lonely. Who knows, it might actually work.