Meowscar64 said:
Two of my posts got deleted because some approves claim decensors are against the rules. Are they? Where does it say that?
In the upload rules, this statement is written about prohibited content: "Third-party edits that substantially alter the content of the image, such as nude filters, headshops, fake translations, or meme or joke edits."
No mentions of decensored.
That's not an exhaustive list. Decensoring an image still substantially alters it.
Then in the decensored definition it states "All decensored posts should have the original as its parent. In addition, 'decensored' is different from both nude filter and uncensored." with nude filter being explicitly stated to be prohibited. Seems to me like a line is drawn in the sand to differentiate these two.
We usually don't permanently delete posts, so if someone uploads an inferior version of an image already on the site, we still need to parent the original to it.
The tags are different because they are all different things. Decensored is attempting to remove existing censorship from the image, while nude filters add nudity to images that never had it in the first place. But both are still substantive edits.
To boot there are a bunch of approved decensored posts. Was it a past rule that they were decensored and that's where the belief comes from or...? I see that third party edits are/can be borderline but that's a whole different ballpark from rulebreaking.
Looking through these, it seems like many of the active posts were either posted before the originals or were uploaded by a Contributor or higher. There is some leeway for third-party edits if the originals can't be found (and if those approvals like for post #10410093 weren't oversights, I guess it also applies to decensored posts), but these situations are rare and those posts are still considered less than ideal. An Approver won't always know if the original can't be found, so I imagine they'd still be difficult to approve even if uploading them was justified. However, this does not apply to your case:
Check the art in question too, high quality unintrusive changes that just take shitty censors away. Someone clarify pls.
post #10558515
post #10558521
You uploaded these after the originals, making yours the inferior versions. There is no reason to upload these as separate posts. If you wanted to share these, you could've left a link and/or embedded the image assets in the comments for their respective original posts.