Poll on hiding exploitable memes

Background Pony #A339
@DudeManGuy  
@Kazapsky
 
Cry all you want about anonymous posters. Mods already said countless times that anonymity isn’t going away, and besides you wouldn’t have this site if it wasn’t because of the contribution from anonymous posters.
 
And the irony, i’m seeing more shitposting from users with name in this thread than from anonymous.
Itsthinking
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Friendship, Art, and Magic (2018) - Celebrated Derpibooru's six year anniversary with friends.
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An Artist Who Rocks - 100+ images under their artist tag
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2017) - Celebrated Derpibooru's five year anniversary with friends.
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People have a right to anonymity. It’s simple as that.
 
Quit using anons as a scapegoat. Like the anon above me said, most of our prominent shitposters have names.
Background Pony #41DC
@Kazapsky  
I’ve seen vastly more shitposting by named users than anons. Hell, there are quite a few named users who are absolutely notorious for shitposting. Even the admins admit that anonymous users contribute a lot of quality content to derpiboo.ru.
Ferrotter
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

@Grieffon  
Sure, if it was a routine slog to find a single image I liked, I’d leave too. I gave up on 4chan long before Scruffy’s tantrum because it became a genuine slog through hundreds of Spider Men to find one decent pony image or story. But on its worst day Derpibooru’s not even close to 4chan. Where would you go to find images you liked with less work than Derpibooru?
 
Besides, responding to general complaints with changes is one of the worst management mistakes an organization can make. Make amends for specific instances of poor service, yes. But systemic complaints are best ignored, because their complaints are almost always really just code for “pay attention to meeeeeee!” Give in to them and another complaint will just follow. An artist is really going to leave Derpibooru’s massive audience/market exposure because an exlloitable of Cadence laughed at a prick who drew Twilicorn’s gravestone? Right… I have a bridge to sell you in Cloudsdale, too. “We can’t just do nothing!” is how we got the Patriot Act and quart bags of liquids.
BinaryPony

My goodness, does anybody notice they’re in a giant internet fight like when I asked about the whole “forced meme” thing a few months back?
TexasUberAlles
Duck - If report count was a score, he'd have the biggest score
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
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Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab

@Background Pony  
@Itsthinking  
@Background Pony  
Sure, no argument that there are plenty of named users whose UI is a toilet seat– there’s a lot of crossover with 4chan after all– but at the end of the day an anon shitposter is always going to be that little extra bit worse than a named shitposter because of the added stink of cowardice involved.
 
It’s sort of hilarious to see one end of the Let’s Make It More Like Reddit! camp demand citations for one thing while the other end of the horse makes broad assertions about a different thing with no attempt at citation whatsoever.
The Smiling Pony
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Solar Hero - Went above and beyond for the Solar Deity, drawing from the power of the sun itself to bring balance to the fight against the Lunar Insurrection (April Fools 2023).
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab

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@TexasUberAlles  
Keep in mind that a lot of anons are anon because they don’t believe their identity should be relevant to what they’re saying. That is, that they either don’t think what they’re saying needs a name attached to it or that what they’re saying shouldn’t receive a biased response based on past things they’ve said / reputation.
 
Of course, yes, there are also many that go anon for the “more obvious” opposite reason of not wanting what they’ve said to be pegged on their persona.
Carcer
Bronze Bit -
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A Perfectly Normal Pony - <Carcer> "Officer, unless I threatened to **** him in the ass, I don't believe I could have reasonably expected him to stop using my website."
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Inexplicably in power
Of all comments made, a little less than a sixth are posted by either actually unregistered users or users posting as anonymous (with that proportion split fairly evenly between the two sides). Of all comments deleted, the majority (about three quarters) of them are from registered users posting anonymously. Only about an eighth of all the comments we’ve had to delete were posted by actually unregistered users (and a lot of those will probably have just been regular spam). Of course, that doesn’t say much for general post quality, but the point is that unregistered users contribute about a twelth of all posts and and an eighth of deleted posts, whereas registered users posting anonymously accounts for a similar twelth of all posts but a massive three quarters of all the posts we actually have to delete.
 
I don’t intend to draw any conclusions from that but I thought some rough statistics might be interesting for people debating that issue.
Background Pony #D5B4
I dunno, why not make some of the more annoying tags like Clarence or Trap blocked by default?
TexasUberAlles
Duck - If report count was a score, he'd have the biggest score
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab

@Carcer  
How much of an actual problem is bot spam? I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen any here, which I gather from context means y’all are doing a crackerjack job exterminating it.
The Smiling Pony
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Solar Hero - Went above and beyond for the Solar Deity, drawing from the power of the sun itself to bring balance to the fight against the Lunar Insurrection (April Fools 2023).
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab

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@TexasUberAlles  
These days, not very. Mostly because the bulk majority is simply filtered out automatically. There are bots constantly hammering the forums and comments trying to post dodgy links (some to CP sites, yay), but the filter is generally “smart enough” to cull those out. The ones that get through are usually just nonsense phrases made to mess with the filter.
 
BACK IN THE DAY, it was kind of bad; we’d have botnets drop 5k spam comments in under a minute, either to simply spam the place up or try to overload it.
Niggoslav_Krawczyk
Duck - Niggoslav_Kwaczyk
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
A Perfectly Normal Pony - Drinky_Butt
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

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@TexasUberAlles  
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Niggoslav_Krawczyk
Duck - Niggoslav_Kwaczyk
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
A Perfectly Normal Pony - Drinky_Butt
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

VIVA LA NOCTE
@SocDev  
We really need to find out who makes most of those, and inject pony places/names into their mainframe. Michael Jordan moving into Appleoosa to play hockey with Miss Jubilee? Yesplz.
Background Pony #DD5B
I say we make a tag for it, and let people filter it if they want. It’s much more of a hassle to unfiltered a tag that’s filtered by default than it is to filter it.
 
That, or we just add a button, like with the more/less Trixie modes.
Background Pony #41DC
@Background Pony  
One could argue that if 95% of people don’t want to see something, it’s easier for the 5% who do to un-hide it than the 95% to hide it.  
Also, an argument could be made that hiding stuff by default encourages people to learn about the filter settings - something which is undeniably good for the site.
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