How the community reacts to art.

(This thread was requested by the mod Derpy Hooves. I didn’t know where to put this so I put this here.)
 
This thread is done to discuss how the Derpibooru community reacts to art. More specifically, featured images.
 
If you want to discuss your opinions on how the community treats featured images, this is the place.

Moved to Site & Policy

@Derpy Whooves  
Thanks. Wasn’t sure where it would go.

I personally feel that the community acts like juvenile delinquents when it comes to featured images.
 
But that’s not a surprise. I come from the Star Wars fandom and am a part of a world war 1 and 2 history fandom. That should explain why I’m not surprised.

@TheRedBaronV2  
Tell me about it.
 
I’m a Star Wars fan so I know what you’re talking about.
 
(There are World War fandoms?!)

Honestly, it really is sad how some people react to a featured image given all the tools the site gives you to block things you don’t like. That is the thing however no matter how many ways you give people to block things they don’t want to see some people aren’t going to use them. Some people will just complain about the featured image regardless of what it is just because its something they themselves didn’t pick.

There is also this thread if people would rather discuss it over there.

@IceKitsune  
Agreed.

@IceKitsune  
Tell me about it.

The only problem I have with featured images is that the hide image button doesn’t actually hide the image for some inconceivable reason. I can’t imagine that fixing this would be very hard and it seems like a bare minimum solution to the problem of people taking their contentions to the comments of the featured image. I don’t see why people shouldn’t be able to get rid of something they don’t want to see rather than be greeted with it every time they visit the front page.
 
For instance, I generally find people’s OCs to be poorly designed, softly egotistic, and prone to breaking away from the pony aesthetic and tone. In such cases, I don’t make a stink about it, I just hide the image that offends my artistic sensibilities and move on. The featured image doesn’t provide this functionality, which does cause me to want to say something every time this happens.

@Background Pony #4B2C  
Settings - Display - uncheck “Show sidebar and watched images”.

@Background Pony #4B2C  
Also:
 
Tag Featured Image -> Hide