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@Background Pony #2A5F
While we're on the subject of things broken by deleted images, it would be appreciated if staff had the option to retain comments on deleted images.

clopfic in the comments and similar tags should not have their comments deleted merely because the artist had a falling out with this site and issued a DNP.

@Wiimeiser
That's not really a feature request and would be best posed on the tagging forums.

While we're on the subject of broken tag descriptions, I'd like to request that 12 OC tags have their descriptions nuked.

Feature 1:
Thumbnail embeds of removed images should not turn into text (>>123t and such), but instead should show a dedicated "image deleted" spoiler image that can be clicked to go to the deleted image page (and e.g. see tags).

Feature 2:
If the image being deleted is used as an example of a tag, whoever is responsible for maintaining tag descriptions should be notified so it can be replaced with another image.

Inspired by the broken example in the description of First Base (character) .

@Background Pony #8601
You can ("Comments" link in dropdown under your avatar in top right corner). Until you posted them while being signed out, then nothing will help.

Ability to watch your own anonymous comments to keep track what mad shit you've spoke and where you've commented used anon?

If moderation action deletes the most recent post/comment, would it be nice if it "unbumped" the thread? Phrased differently, sort by most recent valid comment.

@Angius
It could probably be done with a service on a different server that reloads the latest copy of youtube-dl every day or so and accepts requests from the app.

But there are problems:
- Some videos will be unfetchable, since their DASH manifest will show that they have only incompatible codecs available for download, or since they are simply too large to pass validation
- Of the videos that are not fetchable, a subset might be perfectly feasible to fetch at a lower resolution, but automatic format selection could transparently degrade the video quality instead of rejecting a lossy conversion
- If the user is forced to explicitly pick an (audio,video[,sub]) format tuple, they may not know precisely what they're getting

@Blissful690
Would require Youtube-DL running on the server for each fetch. It's more complex and resource-heavy than fetching an image or a gif, due to how YouTube handles videos.
I guess staff would know best if it's a worthy tradeoff, though

How about using YouTube links to fetch WEBM videos?

@LeaveTheBronx
Uploaders originally had the ability to freely edit their Background Pony flag on the pic. It was removed for misguided "justice" reasons.

@Rexton the III
Seconded.

I've asked for this before, but might as well try one more time.

Could we have the option to hide an upload from appearing on the front page? When one goes to post a particularly squicky fetish pic, it's always luck of the draw how long it sticks around on the front page and how many people are going to see it. And no, filters aren't the answer since people don't. It sucks an incredible fat one when you post something you know 99% of people are going to hate, but you have no option other than to force it on the world.

With the way it currently works, I have to tiptoe around posting certain things, hoping someone will flood the front page with EQG screencaps or some other crap so it gets flushed away before too many people have the chance to see it. You know, the reverse of what one would usually want.

@LeaveTheBronx

@TexasUberAlles

@byte[]

I thought the current solution was the artist could contact a mod and have their artist tag converted to a generic artist:PHP tag.

@LeaveTheBronx
A long time ago it used to be possible for users to anon or deanon the uploader field on their images but the feature was removed. Not sure if it's possible for the mods to switch the uploader anonymity on the current engine.

@TexasUberAlles
It'd make it so that if the OP wasn't the artist, they'd at least have a way to distance themselves from the art if, say, the OP accidentally started a war in the comments. Plus it'd eliminate the whole process (i'm not saying it's a hassle, though it might be) of having to contact a mod to take it down, then re-up it later.

@TexasUberAlles
Sure, though it'd be nice for it to be integrated into the code.

Artists can already do that by contacting a mod and asking for an image to be deleted, then re-up it as a BP later if they want. Uploaders who aren't the artist seem unlikely to get such consideration.

(yay another stupid suggestion from yours truly)
You know how Archive Of Our Own gives you the ability to orphan a work, i.e. making a work dissociated from you?

How about something similar? We can make it so that, if a person is really sure that they don't want an artwork associated with them, but don't want it gone from the site entirely, they can orphan it.

Orphaning an artwork makes it so that the original poster (herein referred to as OP) is changed to Background Pony (anon) and the comments made by the OP are changed to appear anon as well. If the OP of the picture was the artist, then orphaning it removes the artist tag. It will also remove the source, unless it was Derpibooru exclusive. Only the OP can request an upload to be orphaned, so as to prevent abuse.

@kleptomage
Also add searching by date.

The Do Not Post list has too many pages to quickly find names. I request that all DNP artists be listed on a single page to allow for both quick browsing and a CTRL F search.

@LeaveTheBronx
I really can't see why you'd ever want to turn on that functionality. It goes directly against the definition of implication and is basically unusable outside of some edge cases.

If you want to stay with the Flutterdash example (or any other ship involving a female character, for that matter), hiding/spoilering the implied female alone would affect over 1.3 million images featuring a female character regardless of context. That's over half of the images on the booru. Because of a single ship between two specific characters.

If you want to use a feature like that only for tags that imply a single, small(-ish) tag, then just manually hide/spoiler that tag and you're done. Like, going back to your original post, just hide/spoiler incest and you don't even have to do anything about applecest anymore, since all the images with it are hidden/spoilered due to the implication anyway.

@saby
i went back to the drawing board and came up with this: how bout we make it a drop-down setting? ^{i'm going to use the flutterdash tag as an example}
"Yes" = auto-spoils/auto-hides the tags implied by 'flutterdash'
"Prompt me" = 'Do you want to also hide/spoil the tags implied (female, fluttershy, rainbow dash, lesbian, shipping)?' with buttons saying 'yes' and 'no'
"No" = doesn't auto-spoil/auto-hide the tags implied by 'flutterdash'

The default would be "no"

It'd be great if you could change the spoiler image behaviour on mobile (doesn't even show up when requesting the desktop version), or better yet if it switched to a local setting so you could have one behaviour on mobile and another on desktop.

@LeaveTheBronx
That would probably cause more trouble than it would save.

You would filter out a shipping that grinds your gears particularly bad, and would end up also filtering out each involved character, and the orientation tag too. Or filter out "hyper breasts", and also "impossibly large", "huge", and "big breasts".