Ask the Mods Important Site Questions (V2)

Okay, what’s with the string of deleted posts? What were they going on about?

@Blissful690
Someone pushing their personal politics, and others replying to them. None of it has anything to do with this thread.

Hi, is it possible if the merging of this image can be reversed?

The upload on the artists DA page is of a higher quality then the earlier twitter upload, and yet the higher quality version got merged into the older upload

@icicle wicicle 1517
It’s a bigger size, but the other one has a lot of compression artifacts making it lower quality.

It seemed to me that the merge of >>1208424 (merged) into >>2892942 should have gone the opposite way - the older picture was PNG and didn’t have artifacts that the newer picture has, and the newer picture is just upscaled without any more actual detail.

Why does Rule #6 get broken more often than others?

@Blissful690
I really couldn’t tell you.

@Blissful690
If I had to guess, it’s a combo of

@PUBLIQclopAccountant
There have been a LOT of spambots lately.

@Ciaran
My notifications page agrees with you.

@Blissful690
Also, deleted images (Rules #1, #3, #5) are naturally hidden and hard to notice unless you go looking for them specially, and Rule #2 almost never has any visible signs.

Should we add “rarititty” or “rarititties” as aliases to “busty rarity?”

@IWTCIEM
Better sorted for this thread

@IWTCIEM
Those have literally never been used as tags, so no.
[edit] Oh, I see this was already mentioned in the correct thread that icey pointed out.

Why does profile picture file size have to be 300 KB? I want to use a screencap for my avatar but it keeps saying that the resolution is too high no matter how hard I edit it down or compress it. Is there a way that I can use it without going through all this trouble again?

@Mr.Myoozik
Avast! I have just saved you over some silly little trouble.

@Mr.Myoozik
Because if you’re on a slow or metered connection (which many people are, like using cheap mobile plans), loading up a forum page or image with 50 comments and each have a “large” unique avatar could mean quite a bit of bandwidth use.

300kb should be more than enough for a 500x500 JPEG; I did a quick check just now and a 2048x1536 screencap like >>2903740 resaved as a JPEG with minimal compression comes down to just over 300kb.

I already found someone to do it for me and I changed it anyway

@Khauntzat Adramélekhizarovich Searmaev
I’ll save that website for good use

@The Smiling Pony
More often than not whenever I try to use an image for my avatar, I always keep getting the same “Avatar must be 300000” error message no matter how hard I change it and it infuriates me.

@The Smiling Pony
Can confirm. The connection where I was when I just loaded this is kinda slow and it took almost a minute to load this forum page. Making the file size higher would probably not be wise.

Is it true that ciaran die there is rumor going on in the in the Internet that he croak

@Background Pony #A1F5
It’s true, he died of ligma.

@Background Pony #A1F5
Unless something happened in the last 11 hours Ciaran is still very much alive and well. Where are you even hearing these “rumors”?

@moonchosen
Equestria daily