Ask the Mods Important Site Questions (V2)

Managing the goat’s blood alcohol content is one of the most fiddly and prestigious senior staff tasks.

So would a roleplay with murder or such fall into NSFW?

@14Fan
Yep.

@saby
Ok thanks

I think its time for another “pony with care” message since the new season of Make Your Mark dropped a few days ago

Would love to get an answer to this and/or get it to work. Direct fetching is much more convenient than downloading and reuploading.

Ay who the fook is this guy? Someone who blatantly share my same name bruh.

@Шавкат Рахмонов
OC name collisions are common. My own OC, “Firebrand”, suffers that…

@Шавкат Рахмонов
If you would like, you can document your own personal use of that name on the tag itself - some people do this to help differentiate their OC from the others with the same name.

@Ciaran
Haha i’d like that but i’m too lugnuts yet to come up with an appropriate detailed description about mesself.

@Шавкат Рахмонов
I think a lot of us are in that same spot. It’s a cosy spot to be.

@Шавкат Рахмонов
@The Smiling Pony
@Ciaran
Just add your username to your OC’s name tag. It’s quite a common way to avoid name clashes.

(I mean, the latecomers should do that, not the first person to use that name…)

Forget about it.

I think I’m due for a name change on that guy before this year ends.

Searing Skies as an MMA Fighter with a beard doesn’t fit the name properly anymore.

Will this site be affected by the government shutdown?

@Background Pony #15BA
No.

@Background Pony #15BA
Which government? We’re an international crew.

hey, I’m kinda lost, where do I go to request my artist links be updated to reflect a newly changed alias?

also looking to know how to get the linked picarto stream also updated on my artist tag

@MelodiSmol
Report your own profile.

This is the situation, a person posts a HUGE pile of old art that was already uploaded several years ago. The corresponding tag does not exist, I cannot block the user who posts this. How to deal with such individuals?

@Background Pony #EFB0
Just wait for a mod to merge them?

Alternatively, if you really want to hide them, look up the user’s uploader ID (go to their profile, click “View All” in the recent uploads box, then look at the search bar, it says something like “uploader_id:XXXXX”), and put it in your complex filter. If the person is a BP, then you’re out of luck.

@JP
Should I write “Searching for uploader_id:600220” in full or just “600220”?
P.S. And it doesn’t work either way.
P.P.S. I wrote “uploader_id:600220” and it worked, thanks.

@Background Pony #EFB0
I’d recommend instead putting in something like uploader_id:600220, first_seen_at.gt:7 days ago, which will only hide them while they are less than a week old, because I imagine you’d still want to see these images after they get merged with the older duplicates.

Anyway, what that user is doing is uploading larger, higher-quality versions of images than were uploaded to the site in the past - something that staff has sometimes done directly without needing to wait for merging - but there are so many images that need it… I wonder if that user is trustworthy enough to get the ability to update posts or to merge images?

@Background Pony #699F
It puzzles me how people just apparently hate mdashlw’s higher-res uploads. From wanting to hide their uploads, to spamming in the comments. It’s just bizarre.

@JP
How is it bizarre for people to get annoyed by dozens of dupes being posted continually by someone? You and I know it’s for a good purpose in the long run, but it’s also clear as day to me how it’s bothersome. (Even for me in the niche situation that I like to lurk the dedupe reports page to find bad uploaders [low quality/absent artist credits] or changed artist names, and get faced with 2 pages straight of [perfectly ordinary] mdashlw uploads [or WatermelonRat or Mildgyth or others])

@saby
I’m sorry, “report my profile”? There’s no other way to have the links updated? No proper forum?