Godel said:
Haha, I know your pain! I uploaded a CG set by fuji shinobu since a vast amount of his work was already accepted (as well as it being quite good imo), a few of them made it to the "popular" page. Then the approvers got tired of the CG set (or the one that liked it went afk) and I got 2 deleted that were not much different than the accepted ones I had uploaded the previous day. I still have more from the CG set but don't want to acquire more deletions so I held back on uploading them XD
Ooh, deletion stories? I want to share one! So I was looking at some pictures on deviantart and saw some work by a very impressive artist who seemed to have a decent bit of images. "This guy hase to have been posted on danbooru by now," I though, but I ran a search for his name to check anyway. To my surprise, nothing came up. Moments later, I had uploaded one of his images only to find it retagged in short order to a different artist...an artist that the name used on deviantart was an alias of who had indeed been posted to danbooru already...including the picture I had just uploaded. There was one small difference, though. The image from deviantart was about 5%-10% smaller than the one that had been posted so it hadn't been automatically detected as a duplicate. Instead, it went to the mod queue to die. In case you're curious, I do look back on this and laugh.