Ask the Mods Important Site Questions (V2)

@Background Pony #AE09
@Princess Celestia
Delayed?

How… convenient.

Given the extreme uploading that’s going on, what’s the server’s CPU usage/load?

@JP

@JP
Less than 25% utilization most of the time. Lots of headroom.

@Princess Celestia
That’s crazy 😧 I guess it’s expected though 😃

@Princess Celestia
@byte[]
That’s odd. I assumed it would be more.

Just shows how powerful modern CPUs are.

Can I ask why flutterdash blog, uploaded by me today, was deleted? It wasn’t on db yet, I didn’t broke the rules. Why? Who took points from NLR?

Oh, artist in DNP, sorry for bothering. That’s awkward

Is there any way to receive the notifications from replies to your comment, instead from any written comment in subscribed arts and forum threads?

There’s kind of a flood of awfully low-content (and often under-tagged) images, probably due to the game’s incentives. Are they breaking rules? A user can report only 3 at a time, so I’m asking here.

A handful of examples: >>3078194 (deleted) >>3078222 (deleted) >>3078236 >>3078231 (deleted) >>3078213 (deleted) >>3078204 (deleted) >>3078181 (deleted) >>3078103 (deleted)

@Silver Bristle
Probably better to ask this in the feature request thread. I’d also like this feature.

@Background Pony #699F
Maybe half of those have already been yeeted - especially where it’s just some corporate logo. The one you linked though are coming from a wild variety of sources, so it’s not one person spamming them, so there no single faucet to control the flow. If it keeps happening, please report one of them for Rule #3 and put links to others in the text field and we’ll look to see what the have in common.

@Orbita
I wonder if cases like yours are why the penalty points are smaller in ratio for images than for comments and forum posts. -150% instead of -200%. Easier for a good-faith image upload to (correctly, like it or not) be deleted.

@Background Pony #699F
We’re definitely on the lookout for low quality uploads. Worst offenders will get their points reset to 0.

Is there a reason why importing an image from Tumblr gives you several different versions of the same pic to upload, instead of just one?

I thought it’d just give you the highest possible resolution

@icicle wicicle 1517
Is that with all images, or some in particular? Do you have an example I could do science with?

@Ciaran
It only seems to be single images, and ones that aren’t a response to any tumblr asks

Like this image

You stick the link in the image grabber and it gives you this
https://candy-fae.tumblr.com/post/707857894072352768/was-thinking-about-luna-2day

@icicle wicicle 1517
Wow :) that’s amazing. I wonder if Tumblr is serving every possible resolution, for all possible platforms. Like, a bigger hammer solution to responsive web or something?

@Ciaran
It seems like it

The 1st result seems to be the lowest possible resolution, the one at the bottom seems to be the original resolution

Thing is i don’t remember this happening before when uploading images from tumblr

@Ciaran
Ok i tried fetching a link from something that has multiple posts, and i only get the highest res version of them

So it seems like this only happens if the URL has a single post in it

Hello, I wanted to ask if there is no problem uploading a pack of 4 images because there was a spam problem due to the event and I have doubts if I can upload them.

@Wheatley R.H.
Yes just open 4 tabs of upload link and put all the info, tags, etc and you’re good

@TheGamerPainter
thanks, Besides, something fun is also that way of uploading images

@Wheatley R.H.
You’re welcome

Maybe should make a time gap between uploads to the site till the end of event? 10-15 minutes maybe. Art spammers during this event clog the wall with a bunch of low-grade art, preventing the artists from posting their own arts, and other ponies to see really good artwork.
There’s a plenty ponies who will agree with that