I, like most of you, am an average user who adds helpful tags and uploads works they want to share. I do not want drama, I want room for improvement
And I can't help but point out that this platform feels it's more designed to troll others and spread toxic behavior both from users and mods.
Uploads
To begin with, contributors will receive negative tickets for something as simply as uploading collections of works that a specific mod feels it does not make the quality standard. What even is the "quality standard?" In my opinion it's so subjective and judgmental but that is not even my main point. When uploading, I look at the works the mods themselves uploaded and reference the standard from there because they are the ones setting the standard for the website. And once in a while the mods themselves approve or even upload works that are much less developed than the works they deleted. I draw this judgment from the aspect that certain works will have less developed shading, textures, proportions, colors, expressions, etc, and sometimes literal works that do not have any color or shading or even line art that's in a wip progress/unfinished is allowed.
My point is that how do we set the bar so high when at random moments it can also be set so low at the convenience of privileged users?
Comments
Secondly, the commenting guidelines are absolutely broken to a point where commenting is something everyone should not do. Personally I think making creepy comments a bit gross as I'm more of someone who likes their kinks a bit more SFW, but in the creepy comment's defenses, doesn't the context matter? For example if someone were to draw a safe rated Pokemon picture here and a user makes a sexually explicit comment, then yes I see how that would make people uncomfortable as that kind of behavior is toxic and is not relevant to the work. However if that same comment is used on an explicit adult rated work, then how is that even wrong? I mean all they are doing is describing what's happening in the work using words instead of depicting it. I also don't see how using first person pronouns instead of telling a story third person will all of a sudden make something creepier. A lot of NSFW works have descriptions in them that tell an adult rated story, all of a sudden writing that in comment form to contribute and expand to that respective content warrants a ticket as negative behavior? If the mods don't know how to handle a commenting system then maybe it may just be best to not have comments in the first place, just completely remove the function which I am not for but that just might be more practical. So do you want comments or not? Plus commenting is never awarded, only ignored or punished.
Negative behavior and trolling
I am all for regulating comments to prevent toxic behavior even if that only sounds good on paper and not practice but I really feel that this system is heavily abused. Once in a while I see users saying why they are frustrated with the users around them and the mods in a (slightly) aggressive manner but instead of giving these people an explanation or closure in a professional manner, they are either completely ignored or talked back in an equally or more trolling comment. A lot of the time these people will get disciplinary action not because they broke a rule but they simply hurt a privileged user's feelings or disagreed with them.
And why is there cub porn allowed on this website? Users can get punished for making racist and homophobic comments but this website tolerates swasticas and confederate flags along with CP? Lets also not ignore the anti-religion artworks that have extremely xenophobic views. So you can't say that (insert user) is a piece of sh#t but you're allowed to draw a political picture of someone doing that to an entire ethnic group of people? And no using the "gore is allowed so (insert) is allowed" argument is not valid because gore does not discriminate and is enjoyed in numerous entertainment medias unlike literal child porn/harm. CP regardless of media is (or can potentially be) illegal and abusive material and racism and xenophobia is discriminatory (which the guidelines already say they do not tolerate on that). Yet why do we only worry about the little things on this platform?