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Don’t worry about it, none of that disqualifies that image from being selected for being featured. It might lessen its chances, but it’s still fine.
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Rice pone
Unfortunatelly, nsfw arts can get twice as that, when the same quality pics are involved. That’s quite discouraging for safe artists. (Also, it’s enough to take a look at the amount of nsfw arts in the trending images. No fair chance for safe ones.)
Imalou has PLENTY of recognition; she’s of the Top 10 most popular pony artists in the world, if not Top 5, and officially working for Hasbro and becoming an official show guest at every convention that can afford to bring her. Imalou also has 2 Featured Images, one with over 1,000 upvotes and one with over 2,000.
Generally artists who are talented enough to get a Featured Image aren’t concerned about being out-voted on Derpibooru by NSFW content if they’re aware.
That said, NSFW images aren’t allowed to be Featured Images so that consideration isn’t even a factor.
The idea with Featured Images to my understanding is to give it to artists who are yet to have it where possible. Giving it to Imalou three times while there’s still several others without one is what would be unfair I would think.
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