An Announcement from Derpibooru's Staff

@Barhandar  
That’s probably on purpose

@A2Rhombus  
>the only artist  
Except for you know, Jargon, AnontheAnon, Rhorse, Mkogwheel, Tiarawhy, Shino, just to name a few.  
At least they all drew pony related stuff, unlike brae who only drew like 5 pony images in the last two years

@Parasprite  
Im sorry your coworkers made everything so difficult for you.

@A2Rhombus  
read the fucking thread, dude. I’m thinking mods are gone, this has been a real time case study in censorship and the chilling effect. It’s over.

@Background Pony #51AA  
Wow. That’s the first time I’ve been slapped with that label! Good to know the fandom still can’t make up its mind about me.
 
@Infrayellow  
That’s not what I said at all, mate.

@LOVE  
it also had 5 more days on it  
the anti-nazi thread has way more momentum

That’s, perfect.
 
 
Not gonna knock on the wiplash, whatever.
 
Thank you for removing hate speech from your site.
 
To anyone out there who’s not happy with this..allow me to try and cue you in on what’s happened. Because simply shouting and insulting each other…isn’t well productive.
 
Nazism = Hate Speech. It’s really that simple, there’s no good nazi. There’s no positive spin you can put on nazi imagery to the point where using it for the LOLZ or ironically, or making nazi horse cute, doesn’t give Nazism and the values of it, a platform to stand on.
 
There is NO ironically supporting something. There’s only supporting it.
 
All things associated with hate speech are now gone. If you truely have a problem with this and can’t grasp why
 
 
nazi = bad
 
 
Then I’m not sure what to tell you.
 
Also I’ll end this with “I am a person who likes healthy debate. but this is one thing that there’s really not debate on. It’s cut and dry. if you support nazism in any way, ironically, your opinion is simply not worth listening too. So feel free to pile on like in the last time (called it!) I’ll respond with nothing but a “lol the nazi’s are mad” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyc62g7YQM0

@Background Pony #C1E4  

 
But they are. When a company, let’s say Patreon, decides that someone can no longer be supported by people who want their content, they’re deciding what’s allowed in society. Companies keep doing the same thing to the cheering of anti-censorship people who don’t seem to understand the concsequences.

@Filiecs  
But democracy leads to tyranny if Plato is to be believed. :^)

What the actual fuck is going on

@Officer Hotpants  
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out :)

@Parasprite  
hey Parasprite, i am sorry you got backstabbed like that, you have my condolences.

@A2Rhombus  
And jargon, and Anontheanon, and mkogwheel, and hattsy, and datte…

@JargonScott
 
Jargooru

@Bolt the Super-pony  
I think we all have whiplash at this point.
 
@Background Pony #9E12  
We are going to have open discussions with our community regarding any rule or content policy changes.
 
@evan555alpha  
For right now, the rules are largely what they were before everything started - anything blatantly hateful or discriminatory is not welcome. Parody is fine. This is how the rules always have been, but we will be enforcing the rules against hateful content more sternly.
 
Though as noted above, we have a lot of conversations to have with our community regarding what the site’s policies should be.
 
@doloresbridge  
Unless the content is clearly hateful, it will not be banned.
 
@Skoon  
I appreciate this. The truth is that there is no right answer. We just want to run an art site.
 
@Background Pony #B63A  
That is a conversation we need to have with our community. I would love to hear everyone’s thoughts on that.
 
@Background Pony #5E10  
No
 
@Background Pony #32C3  
Any further changes to our site’s rules beyond what they were at the start of the month will be announced in advanced and open to community feedback. This announcement is a pledge to involve the community in making decisions that affect the community.
 
@Background Pony #9E12  
We are not going to be banning anyone. As the previous announcement said, forced filtering will be disabled soon.
 
@Whatsapokemon  
That’s our goal. We’ve failed our community by not listening properly, and instead just made changes without communicating. This is a vow for us to change that.
 
@Skoon  
It’s not

The moment you went for censorship, you fucked up. People can filter what they don’t like. This is an archival site, not some place to push agendas.

@Blossomforth  
STAY MAD THAT DAD DIDN’T GIVE YOU OWNERSHIP OF THE SITE LMFAO  
GET FUCKED COMMIE

@A2Rhombus  
Cope
 
Also site mods COPE

@ToffeeScotch  
Anon and jargon were known nazi sympathizers, I’m not surprised about them

@Skygunner  
I’m glad to see not everyone is attacking the staff over this.

Just make up your goddamn minds on what IS allowed to be posted and what IS NOT allowed to be posted. BE SPECIFIC. And for gods sakes, when you make your minds up, ENFORCE IT. This shit isn’t rocket science.

@LOVE  
How about you ‘cope’ with what they’ve finally decided, and leave the site

@LightningBolt
 
@Parasprite  
Just leave. I’m sure one of the alt-boorus or someone else, anyone else, would actually appreciate you and not throw you under the bus.

@Zatss  
Para spent a lot of time to smooth over issues after the reverting to the old rules. Then you see Blossomforth’s post saying “nope, we’re banning all political stuff now”. This was way after Para’s posts of transparency and openness trying to earn back people’s trust. Some staff are leaving and it’s now a larger dumpster fire.

@Nuke  
You need to chill, Derpibooru should be a peaceful place and not need to have anything to do with people like you.