I wondered why have fursuit photos become irrelevant, according to the uploading guidelines, when there are perfectly good photos of fursuits already on the site. When searching ~real ~real_world fursuit it seems like the last unaltered photo of a fursuit was uploaded 10 years ago (post #653945). I just wanna know why fursuit photos are not allowed anymore.
Topic: Why have irl fursuit photos become "irrelevant"?
Posted under General
Photos of any kind are not allowed anymore, unless it is a well taken Photo of traditional art, although we still prefer scans.
The guidelines have changed a lot over the years, this was one of them meant to keep the board from getting flooded from low quality submissions.
arleneexcalibur said:
I wondered why have fursuit photos become irrelevant, according to the uploading guidelines, when there are perfectly good photos of fursuits already on the site. When searching ~real ~real_world fursuit it seems like the last unaltered photo of a fursuit was uploaded 10 years ago (post #653945). I just wanna know why fursuit photos are not allowed anymore.
Fursuit photos have not been allowed since 2016. Those that were posted prior to the policy change are retained as grandfathered_content, as the policy did not apply retroactively.
I can't find a discussion about that specific policy change back then, but from what I can see:
Most the fursuit photos date back to the time when staff would just accept anything they liked, furry or not.
Allowing photos of fursuits could be potentially explosive in content since you can just take thousands of photos of the same fursuit from different angles, with different poses and in different settings. You could of course set rules like "only one photo per fursuit" but then that creates numerous other issues (which photo is the "superior" image, staff having to make sure it's not a duplicate, etc.) which are just a problem for a site focused on primarily 2D artwork. Thousands of posts of the same SFM model are OK though!
For context on how explosive it could be to accept fursuit photos: FurTrack, a booru-like website for fursuit pictures which surely has a much smaller userbase than e621, already has 1,205,868 posts - over 20% as much as e621.
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Also, for fun, here's some other quality posts from the era where fursuit posts were accepted:
post #59697 post #96604 post #105438 post #529106
post #133813 post #4738 post #3276 post #9719
To think that this is the stuff that passed quality control at the time really makes you wonder what didn't.
faucet said:
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Also, for fun, here's some other quality posts from the era where fursuit posts were accepted:
post #59697 post #96604 post #105438 post #529106
post #133813 post #4738 post #3276 post #9719To think that this is the stuff that passed quality control at the time really makes you wonder what didn't.
Why are half the posts from msc
Also you can browse date:14_yesteryears_ago status:deleted -delreason:*takedown* -delreason:*inferior* -delreason:*duplicate* -delreason:*remov* -delreason:*young*human* -delreason:*dnp* -delreason:*superior* -delreason:*paysite* -delreason:*commercial* -delreason:*better*quality* -delreason:*repost* -delreason:*deleted* -delreason:*lower*res* -delreason:*bigger* -delreason:*higher*res* -delreason:*smaller* -delreason:*lower*quality* -delreason:*avoid*posting* for the things that didn't pass
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