@LLAngel Danbooru is a reposting site, not a site for managing an artist's own work. As such, it is against Danbooru policy to upload one's own work. Self-uploads are almost certain to be deleted (as your previous self-uploads have, as well).
Sadly, approvers are not always careful about what they approve. Regardless, try hitting that tag, and notice the amount that were deleted.
1. Approvers are still allowed to approve that stuff. We should judge art quality, not the uploader when approving. Most self-uploads aren't deleted because of the fact it's a self-upload but because of lacking quality. 2. There's still a self-uploader rule and we punish them if they continue uploading self-uploads.
Wait so someone else can post my work but i cant? O.o
The idea is that someone else thinks your art is good to preserve it someplace. Rather that the artist deciding that on their own. It becomes art appreciation rather that "look at what I did". If that makes sense.
Im not being argumentative here, but come on, artists are the most overly critical of their art. If im not mistaken isnt every post only up for a few days unless accepted by a moderator? If the moderators think the arts not worthy thats perfectly fine but just seems weird that someone else could post a really bad picture someone else drew and get it rejected like normal, why not an artist. I just feel even if they are bias to their work if it doesn't met quality just reject it like any other.
At least someone took the time to explain this to me so thank you. Guess ill just stick to pixv and hentai-foundry. Kinda wish i didn't spend $20 on gold tho..
I mean in the upload menu, it has a prompt to tell you about the self-upload policy.
Carweirdo3 said:
Wait. Why's there 1.7k images in the self-upload pool then?
1. Approvers are still allowed to approve that stuff. We should judge art quality, not the uploader when approving. Most self-uploads aren't deleted because of the fact it's a self-upload but because of lacking quality. 2. There's still a self-uploader rule and we punish them if they continue uploading self-uploads.
The rules only matter if they are enforced. It is ultimately the approver's responsibility to enforce the rules with regards to approval. That's WHY they exist.
LLAngel said:
Im not being argumentative here, but come on, artists are the most overly critical of their art. If im not mistaken isnt every post only up for a few days unless accepted by a moderator? If the moderators think the arts not worthy thats perfectly fine but just seems weird that someone else could post a really bad picture someone else drew and get it rejected like normal, why not an artist. I just feel even if they are bias to their work if it doesn't met quality just reject it like any other.
At least someone took the time to explain this to me so thank you. Guess ill just stick to pixv and hentai-foundry. Kinda wish i didn't spend $20 on gold tho..
The problem is that, while most talented artists absolutely are critical of their art (it's probably how they became talented), technically speaking, anyone who can use Paint to create "art" can be an "artist". The sorts of people that cause the problems that led to the rule being created are the latter, not the former.
There is a lot of drama regarding what is and isn't approved on Danbooru already, just when it's one of out hundreds of random images someone found on the Internet that gets deleted, but it's much, much more personal when it's someone's own "magnum opus". There are people out there convinced that a scribble in Paint is better than anything else on the site because "I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU DO BETTER!" or "AT LEAST IT'S ORIGINAL!", and if they're NOT capable of listening when most people say that they don't agree it's the best art in the universe because artistic tastes are subjective, then just having an objectively measurable standard - that users can't upload their own artwork - means that they can't be the ones arguing their own case. If another user uploads it and it's deleted, it's not as much drama.
What's more, Danbooru isn't really equipped with things that something like DeviantArt offers, like managing comments on your own work or control over it being there at all. Someone responding to responses to their own work is normal on DeviantArt, but disruptive on Danbooru due to the way there's a single comment feed that updates site-wide.
As has been said somewhere before, this is an aggregator site, not deviantArt. If it's deemed good enough for archiving, someone other than the author will upload it here eventually.