Yes i agree the scouting system is a load of shit, and yes the user base is strongly alienated towards tits (as we all knew and Sabtastic just confirmed), but there is at least honesty. So Deviant art is supposed to be for art but that is every 4 months on a red moon the rest of the time is the same pink haired girl with a different dress and background, and they are everywhere from the dark club to the surreal, abstract, monster, kaiju, and even the graffiti nation clubs, absurdity!
And Newgrounds is for whatever, so... is shadman possessing a monopoly on this place's art portal popularity? yes he does, is he getting frontpaged? no, does he needs to? no, is that fair? no, and yes why? because porn is popular and will beat fine all else, so people will gravitate to the closest thing to it, and the same happens on DA, and the same happens to art in general, banal things will always be more popular than that with more effort put into it, it happens to music, movies and even literature, inside and outside the net, romance itself is a cancer, to begin with, romance wasn't even about love, it was the epic adventure of man against the unknown, histories of war and grandeur in most cases the hero was already married and with sons, nothing left there to deal on those dead ends, but even that got bastardized and now romance is a whole different thing, something lesser.
In this world you can't escape trends, they are everywhere specially in art, and you can feel entitled to be mad at this site for allowing hentai to take such a big spot, but lets say this is a fair world, then more than half your content would still suffer because all that fan art, original characters (which very terminology is a shame to originality and a redundancy), plus your not so "dark" art will get the same treatment, sure is not "indecent" as porn, but is definitively inferior, so while doing hentai can be pathetic, fan art is no better, it serves the same purpose: to satisfy an unoriginal and repressed fantasy, but in this regard at least porn is more honest.
DA is no better, that place is actually alienated with users incapable to honestly develop a review with criticism, as if they were programmed to be overly nice and lick the posters feet, and i have actually got entire comments censored for writing things just like this one.
PANFLETIN
really good point dude and the fact that the same problem occurs in the audio portal is a little bit annoying i find out that i needed 5 "tunes" in order to get visible just to be approved haha anyways, you should still use this page to drop some art of yours, perhaps is not the best but it helps i guess haha keep on rockin' dude