i have unknowningly miscategorised a piece on this site, and it subsequently got slammed with a rude and irrelevant comment roughly intended to make me look like a fool.
I sure hope that that wasn't an adminstrator who would have done that (and I'm pretty sure it wasn't since it's out duty to remove a deviation from the incorrect galleries and
not to comment with rude-like comments with an intent to hopefully convince deviants to submit into the right galleries).
not techincal details such as it's artist's choice of category
It's the duty of the gallery adminstrators to issue a Section Violation to the deviants who have placed there things into incorrect galleries at deviantART. Categorizing is a big thing here. It would be an inconvenience to many people who browse the site to view photographs in the program skinning sections of the site. It would just make things, err... jumbled and confusing and would decrease the usability in the site itself.
However, that doesn't make it right for others to have slammed you when you put one of your submissions into the "incorrect gallery". Perhaps a kind note or, heh, even kind comment, for that matter, would have been better suited.
Though, in a site this large with so many members, perhaps there is little to be done that could avoid situations like that.
And, thank you for your comment and I apologize for the rather lengthy one I placed on your page.