Danbooru's stance on multiple accounts

is it allowed? The main point is people creating multiple accounts to upload images to get several privileged accounts or something, not for something like ban evading or reputation. I ask this because I have suspicions of some old accounts being abandoned and new ones created, with the same uploading frequency. If you think the account holders had issues that prevent them from accessing the web, then dont mind this thread, its just something that has been catching my attention for a while.

It's not like there is a limit to how many accounts the database can handle, so I'm not seeing what the problem is here?

You are limited to 60,000 accounts.

If you go over you will be banned.

I remember people being unhappy about the use of multiple accounts to sidestep upload restrictions, but as long as you aren't breaking any rules (or bending them in the case of circumventing upload restrictions) and you aren't memegui, there doesn't seem to be an issue.

One account per person. Multiple accounts per person leads to ban evasions, and that usually causes problems. I also remember someone getting a real long block for having a second account to evade their ban...

This is obvious but the OP specifically stated "not for ban evasion."

Yes, but saying you can have multiple accounts for something else will just make people to ban evade try to pass that by as a valid excuse -- "Oh, I'm just trying to upload more images" "You were banned for your shitty uploads, twat". It'll also create more work for the janitors / moderators to block their additional accounts each time they block someone. Which is why I think there should never be any reasons to allow multiaccounts.

I think the obvious official stance would be that the practice isn't condoned. On the other hand so long as the person follows the rules and doesn't draw attention to it, it's unlikely that anyone will notice or care. I mean we probably *could* do something to monitor IP's with multiple accounts, but that'd be fraught with false positives due to people that legitimately share addresses due to going to the same school, dynamic IP, etc. In short, don't do it, but if you do, don't abuse it.

Upload restrictions are also there for a reason; circumventing them is on the same level as ban evasion.

I can't see a legitimate reason for having several accounts. The only benefit to the user would be to get around various caps and restrictions and that's exactly what we don't want them to do.

Using a non-contributor account to upload something that's borderline is the only thing I can think of, to let mods decide if it's good enough or not.

I can think of one or two uses that would be "legal", for example you could have 2 accounts, one for safe images and one for explicit ones. Some people might forget their password or whatever and have to make a new account, or simply want to start over with a clean sheet, keeping the other one in case they want to look up an old favorite.

Anyway, one account per person is the rule, and even if the use isn't abusive, this is one of those things where you invite a lot of crap by letting people get away with multiple accounts. We've been fairly lenient with it before (I know most places outright ban people who make multiple accounts on principle alone), but we don't endorse it.

I've often considered creating a secondary, paid-for, "safe-only" account. For one thing it would be useful for public machines when I want to pull up some specific image while avoiding both explicit images and ads, and I could also use my "normal" net alias whereas this username is unique to danbooru (and similar sites) and I keep it completely segregated.

wanchan said:
I've often considered creating a secondary, paid-for, "safe-only" account. For one thing it would be useful for public machines when I want to pull up some specific image while avoiding both explicit images and ads, and I could also use my "normal" net alias whereas this username is unique to danbooru (and similar sites) and I keep it completely segregated.

Just don't look for pictures in public then.

Having more than 1 account invites a ton of abuse. Having a "normal" account and then a "beastiality and guro" account negates the rules and people's need to follow them.

As for the OP's actual concern (people uploading from multiple accounts to try to collect multiple privileged invites), I fail to see the point in someone doing that. If someone wants multiple privileged accounts they can buy them, and if they have something else in mind (collecting invites so they can later resell the privileged accounts, perhaps) there's not much you can do to stop that (although I hope anyone thinking of doing that realizes that the amount of time invested would negate any potential returns).

スラッシュ said: Anyway, one account per person is the rule, and even if the use isn't abusive, this is one of those things where you invite a lot of crap by letting people get away with multiple accounts. We've been fairly lenient with it before (I know most places outright ban people who make multiple accounts on principle alone), but we don't endorse it.

This is pretty much exactly where I am on it, and it's probably all that needs to be said.

wanchan said:
I've often considered creating a secondary, paid-for, "safe-only" account. For one thing it would be useful for public machines when I want to pull up some specific image while avoiding both explicit images and ads, and I could also use my "normal" net alias whereas this username is unique to danbooru (and similar sites) and I keep it completely segregated.

It would be nice if danbooru had a safe subdomain (safe.danbooru.donmai.us) and requests to it automatically blacklisted everything not rated safe. Would you use that, if it existed?

LaC said:
It would be nice if danbooru had a safe subdomain (safe.danbooru.donmai.us) and requests to it automatically blacklisted everything not rated safe. Would you use that, if it existed?

Absolutely, especially if it also had no ads or only work-safe ads. Would also avoid needing the old "be careful what you click" disclaimer when linking even to safe images here.

The official stance is that it's okay until you piss off enough people.

wanchan said:
Absolutely, especially if it also had no ads or only work-safe ads. Would also avoid needing the old "be careful what you click" disclaimer when linking even to safe images here.

Not quite true since that would still be subject to proper tagging, but you could be fairly confident at least.