Closure Post
Winner of several rewards including "Longest Post" and "Highest chance of tl;dr" (hehe)
葉月 said:
Hazuki :). But that's a new way to misread it, congratulations on giving me the first smile today.
Oh wow, epic fail on my part lmao.
Despite one of my tasks here is to translate, my kanji is comparable to a set of beginner flash cards.
Looking back, I saw 葉's 訓読み was は and わ, so I just attached a random one (わ) to the 訓読み of 月, つき, without stoping to realise, x + つき = xづき. Of course even if I had remembered that, I would have probably called you Wazuki anyways XD.
I'm glad my failure entertained you though
*quote shortened to save space*
Is that what it feels like? I was trying to keep a pretty passive overtone simply geared towards the improvement of the site and quality/accuracy of searches, but it seems I may have gone a bit overboard and tried to push too hard what I thought "was right." Also, I think a majority of the users that do use this tag expect it to be used in a certain way, which I touch up a little about in my next paragraph.
The next part is a little off topic but I wanted to say it anyways:
Also about danbooru being a porn site,
it's not a porn site.
However, if one searches for explicit tags and uses it as one, then it is (for them).
Danbooru can be almost whatever the user wants it to be, a portal for art inspiration, a comedy(aka funny picture) site (some of those 4komas are pretty funny), or just a source of renders for those inspiring graphic artists. Danbooru definitely isn't limited to being only one thing and nothing else :).
However, from fappers to art appreciators, it isn't their little play ground like *chan, and they still have one thing in common, they use it. If someone wants to make it into their porn site for their own use, they can, so long as they do it without interfering with operations, which is what seems like a lot of the pain in forum #17167 was caused by. (stupid comments, stupid retagging of images, etc.)
And then there's the contributors like you, me, and many others in the forum, who strive to keep the site workable with and useable for these different types of users and ourselves, in whichever way we desire to use it.
How my philosophy of Danbooru? Just right or the worst paragragh with random line breaks you've ever read(or of course somewhere in between)?
That doesn't explain much. Which part makes it censored then? Is it that small floating robotic balls from gundam are more censor-y than small floating rubber ducks? Or is it the lightning, but if so, why exactly? I'm unable to infer any consistent criteria from looking at the two examples you gave, so you have to explain what these criteria are to have them evaluated.
I thought the floating things were classified as novelty censor since they appear to be overlays on top of images (such at post #408818), which is pretty much what mosiacs and censor bars were. It was just one of my previous arguments, that something on top of an image isn't censoring versus something within the image, but that's then and this argument was replied to already.
Yeah but don't rebut this because pretty much it would just be more parroting and more :(s from me.
Also, excuse my overuse in smilies in this post. I remember reading the rule about it on the first day, each post should be limited to one, due to the fact one wouldn't use them in real life that often. I previously was an abuser of emoticons and starting college + being here seems to have removed that aspect of my ewriting tremendously. I actually do make a ":o" face quite a bit irl; however, my attempts to make an X with my eyes have all ended in vain.
Wow, three off topic subposts in my post, but seeing how tl;dr the whole thread is, it probably isn't that much of a problem.
Anyways, to bring closure to this thread, I suppose nothing can/will really be done until consolodation is brought to the definition of censored and it's no longer an umbrella term. Either that or a really efficient and easy to implement plan. Mine seemed to be easy, but the post-tag watching would have been far too difficult. If Trac ticket #429 was/is implemented, perhaps it would have/could been accepted.
I'm all out of ideas, if anyone has a better plan, step forth now (or whenever you feel like it hehe)