cokerpilot said:

Odd... when I look at off-topic I see.

off-topic

From the Terms of Service

Prohibited and Restricted Content
You may not upload any of the following:

Non-anime: Photographs of American porn actresses, for example, are prohibited. Photographs of cosplayers, figures, or prominent figures in the industry are acceptable.

Use this tag when an image breaks the above rules.

The following tags are aliased to this tag: non-anime_related (learn more).

Edit: If this comes off as somewhat snarky my apologies but I am serious here. Western art on this site generally tends to be held to a higher standered then none but that doesn't mean there is no place for it.

See, this creates a weird situation. There is, to my knowledge, only one example of Western IP official art on this site besides this one, and it's also for Doom Eternal. As far as I can recall, it has always been considered by most active users of this site preferable to avoid uploading official art of Western IPs, primarily because there's just no real point to it. The site exists as an archive for "anime" related fanart, because artists have a habit of just suddenly deleting their accounts and sending all of their art to the abyss. Eastern IP official art is also featured here to make it easier for English speakers to find. Neither of these concerns are really relevant to Western IP official art, it's easy to find and not very likely to just vanish from the face of the internet completely out of nowhere.

This discussion is about official art of a western IP of an unknown artist. The only thing that makes it "anime" related is that it's a recreation of an iconic image of a JRPG. I don't particularly care whether or not this image is off-topic, I don't really think it is either. My point was not that western art is unacceptable, nor that art of western IPs is unacceptable, but that official art of western IPs is not "anime related" and isn't really in need of being preserved. Plus, a couple people took issue with the idea that official art isn't allowed here, despite that not being what was said at all, and that bugged me.

Also, as far as off-topic is concerned, it was formerly named non-anime_related and a user that, like, literally made their account five days ago, took the liberty of adding in that bit from the ToS, and for whatever reason specifically highlighted the line about porn actresses. This by itself would already have marked anything tagged with it as being wrong for the site thanks to the line, "Use this tag when an image breaks the above rules." Despite plenty of things tagged with it not being considered a problem by most users. And then non-anime_related got aliased to off-topic, so now a bunch of western artstyle fanart of western IPs is tagged as off-topic because they were previously tagged as non-anime_related, with the implication of off-topic being that it should only be used for things that shouldn't be on the site. So that got messy.

This comment section is basically going to turn into this again, isn't it?

boredman23 said:

This comment section is basically going to turn into this again, isn't it?

I thought I remembered there being a similar argument about this kind of thing

Figures it was also sparked by DOOM art kek

You know, this has been bothered me for a while, but i don't know where to ask it & how to get different opinion from different people, so can i ask it here?

Danbooru, is as far as i know and i think, is like a repository site, a 'warehouse' which users are able to post content and search for images they want to see through tags and ratings, right? And as far i know, the only pros of become some kinda big uploader are more upload+comment quota, rank, etc. Like basically, a storehouse with certain restrictions and bonus where you can show things you think is amazing enough to show to others, right?

Why some people feels...don't know, offended? When they can't 'store & show' a picture here? I mean, if you like a picture and some don't, why don't you save it in your PC when you can see it without anyone criticizing, calling you out on certain fetish (Oh the bans sections...) or restrict you? Even going as far as resorting to sockpuppeting and trolling when you can't get what you want? You don't get some actual benefit from it afaik, so why?

This is just my opinion as a common visitor to Danbooru.

KowaiTeitoku said:

You know, this has been bothered me for a while, but i don't know where to ask it & how to get different opinion from different people, so can i ask it here?

Danbooru, is as far as i know and i think, is like a repository site, a 'warehouse' which users are able to post content and search for images they want to see through tags and ratings, right? And as far i know, the only pros of become some kinda big uploader are more upload+comment quota, rank, etc. Like basically, a storehouse with certain restrictions and bonus where you can show things you think is amazing enough to show to others, right?

Why some people feels...don't know, offended? When they can't 'store & show' a picture here? I mean, if you like a picture and some don't, why don't you save it in your PC when you can see it without anyone criticizing, calling you out on certain fetish (Oh the bans sections...) or restrict you? Even going as far as resorting to sockpuppeting and trolling when you can't get what you want? You don't get some actual benefit from it afaik, so why?

This is just my opinion as a common visitor to Danbooru.

Some people see uploading and the "recognition" of uploading more of the best art faster than others as highly valuable, despite it being basically worthless. For them it's more about pride than any desire to actually share art. I'm fairly certain quite a decent number of uploaders don't even care about the art they're sharing, they just want the "fame" of being the first to upload it.

And for whatever reason some, or possibly most, humans get offended if you don't share their opinions, taking it as a personal attack even though they didn't even make the art they uploaded. If you don't like what they uploaded, you're stupid and have no taste, or, according to a bizarrely high number of agitated comments, you're a loli rape lover who hates feet.

The short answer is that people are weird and assign value to weird things. Also they don't like it when you don't like feet as much as they do.

blindVigil said:
See, this creates a weird situation. There is, to my knowledge, only one example of Western IP official art on this site besides this one, and it's also for Doom Eternal. As far as I can recall, it has always been considered by most active users of this site preferable to avoid uploading official art of Western IPs, primarily because there's just no real point to it. The site exists as an archive for "anime" related fanart, because artists have a habit of just suddenly deleting their accounts and sending all of their art to the abyss. Eastern IP official art is also featured here to make it easier for English speakers to find. Neither of these concerns are really relevant to Western IP official art, it's easy to find and not very likely to just vanish from the face of the internet completely out of nowhere.

You're wrong - there's lots of art for Western IPs here (I'm not going to name anything because I'd rather it not get flagged by over-zealous weeaboos).

The difference is, most Western art will be either comics or game related. Comic-art is usually off-topic due to the style/subject matter not appealing, and game-art is usually 3D and thus of no interest.

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