Regardless of what happens. I'm staying here.

The past few days have made me reconsider my stance on the site. I can’t say my views of all the staff (and some friends) are the same but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. Nonetheless, I still think it’s important to use alternatives as I am very wary of more censorship campaigns.

@Parasprite  
Please check your DM’s.

So the choices boil down to
 

@Background Pony #651A  
i left leaving the site there as that leaving bit. the other choice being “another booru” in my mind. i think anyone voting for that would agree that they are in fact going to leave.

regardless of the polls outcome. my point of it all is ill still be here. cant really trusts polls either cause if anyone with an account can vote. all it takes is a throw away email generator to buff either sides of the vote :shrug: im only really paying attention to these chats and even then ignoring the negative backround ponies for the same reason.
 
 
ill periodically check on this through out the day but my point stands. I’m not leaving. call me a nazi for loving shitposts and porn of nazi pone but at the end of the day its not real life and im not a nazi. =w=
 
hope you all have a good day.

@Background Pony #651A  

 
you’d be surprised. I’ve seen people claim they’ll leave in both the anti-nazi and anti-censorship yet they keep posting. I’d rather everyone stay, but if they claim to leave the fandom then stick around… didn’t we go through a phase like that before?

@windburst  
Hence “intent to leave” as opposed to “claiming they’ll leave”.

@windburst  
I was one of those. It was a result of getting yanked around. It seemed at the time like the decision had been made. Thankfully I decided to stick around to watch the flames and learned I was wrong.

I could not care less about this bull. I’ll use the site for pictures. If people pull out of the site I’ll have to visit others as well as this one. No big deal. There’s too much nonsense going on for me to care about offensive ponies, censored or otherwise.

Im only here for the porn, i dont keep track of Forums and chatrooms.  
“I just grab my dick and double click for porn porn porn”

@Cogs Fixmore  
Hey, at least you’re honest. I already had the impression most people (who aren’t artists) are here either for porn or to lurk with their favourite artists anyway.

Derpi has been my home for the better part of 6 years and I don’t plan to change that.
 
@ArmadilloEater  

 
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@Mikey  
I love that picture so much.

@Parasprite  
Do you even have anything to say? Seeing how Blossomforth effortlessly just overwrote your “no censorship” with their “CENSOR EVERYTHING”.

im going to stay on derpi. das all

Derpibooru is extremely important for all of my interactions within the fandom. I met a lot of my friends through Derpibooru, and I’ve found probably 90% of the artists I like through here. Also, it’s my primary resource for art reference. I can’t imagine living without it.
 
I’ve been pretty on the fence about the controversy, and I can understand and respect the opinions of each side of this. However, the DNPs and threats of further action from both sides deeply disturbed me, and when it began overwhelming the staff (some of whom are friends), I began to really fear for the site. While a boycott is the oldest trick in the book in terms of making your opinion heard, it’s clear that the tactics that have been used certainly aren’t doing the site as a whole any good. Frankly, while some might have accounts here, many involved artists’ home bases are Twitter, /mlp/, Discord, etc., and so they don’t really understand the site. Their prior impressions of the site are often stuff like “they stole my art!” or “the mods are cruel/biased”, which isn’t really what it’s all about. These people just hear that Derpibooru is acting in a way that they disapprove of (or are convinced to disapprove of) and hop on the bandwagon because it doesn’t mean much to them. They don’t understand the harm that can do to a community.
 
Kudos to the folks who have strong opinions but have stuck with the site, along with the staff who are doing their best to keep the site afloat. I hope something can be worked out, and while I now think that the site will survive to some degree, I fear and still believe that the Derpibooru we know and love will become a casualty of the polarized society we live in today.

I will stay and try to “change the site for better” rather than give up (even though I can’t even do much, I make like one trash image every few months). Even though revocal of nazi ban might have been bad, the fandom seems to have gotten better over time, becoming more friendly towards LGBT people and so on.  
The response to the nazi ban has been a massive overreaction imo; the world isn’t ending and it’s not 1984 just because a nazi horse waifu had been banned. On the other hand, context is what should matter as well. Aryanne used to mock nazis is okay imo; Aryanne saying “kill all gays/Jews” (or implying that) is not.
 
I just hope things will get better: actual nazis get kicked out, mass-downvoting/brigading of images will end and so on.

I am staying. I do believe that racists compose a relatively small portion of this site currently (though they are still worth speaking out against, of course), but if the decent people leave in droves, their share of influence over the site culture will expand. I do not wish to see that happen. Derpibooru has been my home for eight years. I’ve probably spent thousands of hours on it. I’m not giving it up to racists without a fight.

@Coda42  

 
First, they banned nazi imagery. Then, Blossomforth came out of nowhere, took lead from Raptorshy, and banned nazi/communist/anything-resembling-hate-ful imagery. That alone proves there’s a slippery slope in effect.
 
Next, it will be foalcon. Then zoophilia. Until nothing but Deviantart-tier feet pics remain on the site.

@Background Pony #C71F  

 
Current image counts:
 

 
Please stop spreading false narratives, and PLEASE just PLEASE consider using filters.

@Derpy Whooves  
To quote the thread by Blossomforth  

 
Nothing I said is false narrative.
 
And I am using filters. I do, in fact, have a problem with people who call for the removal of anything that doesn;t fit inside of their own lil’ bubble instead of using filter. You must’ve misunderstood my point.

I’m out. I don’t want to be associated with a site that’s going to get cited in another mass shooter’s manifesto. If you do, then have fun when the FBI comes knocking.

@dea  
Wow. That deserves an Oscar nomination.

@dea