Ask the Mods Important Site Questions (V2)

@The Frowning Pony
What’s a PII wipe/deletion request?

@Background Pony #57DD
It deletes all personally identifiable information, including your email address. After a PII wipe, the profile is no longer usable or recoverable.

But, your profile was not wiped, so it can be restored.

@Ciaran
You know who I am?
Could you plz restore it?

@Background Pony #57DD
As @The Frowning Pony said, please email ops from the email associated with the account. That is the only way that we have to verify your identity.

@Ciaran
Who’s ops?

@Background Pony #57DD
Send an email to OPS@DERPIBOORU.ORG from the email that your profile was registered with, asking to have your profile deactivated. If you would like, you can also come to the Support channel on our Discord server (link is on the Contacts page and enter the appeals channel by typing:

That will give you access to the private one-person-at-a-time Ban-Appeals channel, and someone from staff will be able to help you verify your identity there in private.

@Ciaran
How do I find the Ban ID?

@Background Pony #57DD
There is no ban ID - just enter the channel and I’ll meet you there.

I’m in support and ban appeals - can you see my question to you there?

Anyone can help me understand the colors in image diffs? (EXPLICIT)

For the two images

This image is blocked by your current filter - click here to display it anyway

your current filter.

and

This image is blocked by your current filter - click here to display it anyway

your current filter.

there’s a Duplicate report for 2980055 and 1030860

What’s the diff image mean here?
From the looks of it it seems to have artifacts around brush strokes filling in color.
However, I am unable to understand which one now is the cleaner one.

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@ispammail
It seems to be two edits made by different people of the original >>900551 (explicit).

One looks to be cleaner than the other to a very very minor degree that most humans are incapable of seeing, but that are indeed actually different.

As for which is the cleaner one… uh… idk -_-

How long does it take for a new account to be authorized?

@Background Pony #6343
“Authorization” is solely up to the person that registers checking their email and clicking the link to make sure their email is going somewhere.

If you mean “verification”, ie. skipping the upload moderation queue, it’s variable, dependent on the uploads and user history.

@The Smiling Pony
I’ve checked, did verify, then tried to log in
Invalid email or password. If you’re seeing this more than usual, your account may be locked.
Tried resend, same. Tried unlock, same. Just now tried password reset, same.

@Background Pony #6343
Definitely not normal; you’ll probably have to join the discord or send an email to the site’s ops address so someone can investigate.

Sorry if this is the wrong forum I have no clue where to put this.
Is there any way I can get a mod to lock down comments on an upload of mine?
>>3308238 This one specifically is getting flooded with political arguing and close to just insults.

What are these random “Please confirm you are not a robot” pages I’ve started getting lately? They originate from Derpi, not Cloudflare. If I click the button, I get thrown back to the front page, not the page I was going to. But reloading the page is enough to get rid of it, no need to press the button. I think I’ve gotten 3 or 4 of these in the last day or two.

@JP
They are used to protect the site from automated traffic. I don’t want to say much else about the system, but I tuned to be a little bit less aggressive so you should see it less now.

Is there any reliable staff I can PM to, I need to talk about something about a certain name change issue ASAP.

@Sear.
Sorry, only unreliable staff here.

@The Frowning Pony
But can you guys help me with my ail tho?

@Sear.
I honestly have no idea given I don’t know what issue you have =/

I dropped a PM to you now so you can see.

Could we please ban true anons from tag editing? Or at least restrict them so that adding/removing more than 10 tags will block the action? Or adding more than, I dunno, two new tags will also be blocked?

Again tags have been vandalized. They’ve been fixed by now, but this shouldn’t happen.