Concerned Users of Derpibooru

@Inucroft  
Nobody is declaring war on Derpibooru and threatening lives, there is no precedent for self-defense, they’re posting stupid horse pictures on the internet. It’s not because there’s be some infinitesimal probability that allowing Nazi content on the website might lead to the gaining popularity of this ideology and subsequently its implementation in some form you don’t like that this is a valid justification to not allow Nazi content on the site. You’re acting like an agoraphobic who refuses to go outside because of some small chance that they might be harmed or killed. Don’t you think that you’re being extremely overly cautious over things you don’t know.

@Inucroft  
Did you really just compare a website on the internet for sharing harmless images of cartoon horses to scumbags that committed an actual literal murder?  
>>>553073t

@Archonix  
Enderal is a hell of a drug.

@Background Pony #B384
 
Oh, I see, sorry I misunderstood.

@Officer Hotpants  
I love that I had to look that up to discover that it is not, in fact, the name of a drug. (Probably.)

@Wellwater  
Heh. I was thinking that it kind of sounded like one, myself.

You know I think you could just replace all of Inucraft’s responses with “But Nazis.” and the substance of them all would not change the slightest.

@Background Pony #C8CF  
This

@Derpy Whooves  
 
Yikes… This post aged nicely. Definitely no boiling the frog here.

@Sensual Spaghetti  
The latter image is deleted for Rule #3 (obligatory pony, or in this case, obligatory twilicane), not Rule #0 (discrimination etc.). If there was some original art to it I’m quite sure it wouldn’t’ve been deleted. The former image seems like it has original art in the flag, though I can’t be certain of that.

@Princess Luna
 
It really seems like rule 3 is being stretched by mods to remove content they dont like.
 
These and many more Nazi related images were removed for rule #3:  
https://derpibooru.org/images/98289  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/393051  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/393055  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/405470  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/495624  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/637494  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/637495  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/637497  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/1101031  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/2222121  

 
While comparable non Nazi imagery is left alone (also see the other thousands of images tagged ponies in real life):  
 
 
 
 
 
 

@Sensual Spaghetti
 
Another trend - editing ponies to be wearing uniforms or holding weapons is rule 3 if it’s nazi related:  
https://derpibooru.org/images/603716  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/750908  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/750909  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/750914  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/1080174  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/2018031  

 
But it’s still mlp related if it’s not nazi themed (also see other thousands of edited screencaps):  
 
 
 
>>1787425s (deleted)  
 
 
 
 

@Sensual Spaghetti  
@Sensual Spaghetti  
The Rule 3 deletions are things that should’ve been deleted when they were uploaded swept up during a Rule 0 review of old images in bulk. The “Nazi” tag was checked first (if it’s tagged Nazi and not deleted now, it’s probably there to stay), and we’re currently looking at images under the “racism” tag.  
In time I intend to make sure we do a pass over political images in general, which would actually be Rule 3 focused I think.  
I should note as well that we deleted 3 images that were tagged “nazbol” for Rule #3: 1742050 1769013 1887794. There appears to be some inconsistency there, which we’ll have to clean up later.

@Princess Luna  
Thanks for the info, but the fact that all nazi images were manually reviewed just raises more questions about inconsistencies.
 
Some soldier/uniform edits were kept like  
 
while others were somehow considered not pony related.
 
Same goes for real life edits which have a small few remaining  

 
I don’t think I’ve heard anyone asking that artists like davca be purged or editing on clothing of villians from outside the mlp universe be banned. If this style art isn’t considered hateful, which apparently it wasn’t given that some stayed and the examples I gave were all only rule 3 bans, then I see no reason why they would be banned and considered “not related to mlp”.
 

 
Oh good, we wouldn’t want to delete any images with a hammer and sickle ^:)

@Sensual Spaghetti  
I’ll have to check on those 2, whether we missed them. I think the first one is fine, though.  
As for “Nazbol”, I mean that there were two versions of an image, one with text and framing, and the latter was kept up, which seems like a mistake (adding more non-pony garbage shouldn’t make it less Rule 3). As well, there are two (the oldest images currently up under the tag) that I would say are blatantly Rule 3 and were probably missed.

@Princess Luna
 
Sorry to keep bothering you, but is there some way we could get a more clear explanation of the thought process staff go though when deciding if something is pony related?  
I still don’t understand would make staff think these are these pony related and allowed (I would hope)
 
 

 
while these are rule 3
 
https://derpibooru.org/images/495539  
 
https://derpibooru.org/images/750908  

 
It really seems like the Nazi element is whats getting these removed (only davca’s Nazi images are being removed for rule 3, both uniform edits are rough around the edges like most such edits are) and if so, then the wording of rule 3 isn’t very clear.

@Sensual Spaghetti  
The main question is whether something looks simply “pasted in”. On the first image, we can see shading on the pony that integrates her into the picture, which I think puts it over the line of not being eligible for Rule 3, quite different from the Trixie image.  
The Sunset image’s deletion is concerning, as it seems clear that there’s an artistic quality to it. That one will have to be brought up in the upcoming consistency pass.

@Princess Luna  
That’s fair. I think there’s a few other images I already mentioned that would meet that requirement, but if there’s some stuff temporarily removed during the commotion that’s respectable. I think there’s also some other images that were rule 3’d by accident and should be re-looked at eventually.
 
https://derpibooru.org/images/190790 (Seems to be an original piece by the artist, there isn’t another version on this site. Might just get rule 0’d instead, but I’d argue abusing fluttershy isn’t a good way to promote genocide)  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/649178 (Seems to have the same amount of effort as most caption memes. Again, might be rule 0 but I think an earth pony saying to gas earth ponies is satire of nazis)  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/2025477 (More seemingly original art)  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/1578812 (Deleted for obligatory pony even though it’s an original image of mlp-tan)  

@Background Pony #26AB  
I hear they’re planning a massive operation at the beaches of /MLP/.

@Officer Hotpants  
Lol I don’t think they’ll be able to do much besides mildly annoy them.

@Sensual Spaghetti  
Hmm, that is odd as well, I think the Flutterbuse one might’ve been a mixup of rule number. We had issues with not clearly communicating rule numbers that have since been resolved. The mlp-tan one I think is the wrong description of which part of the rule (most likely deleted cause no apparent pony relation with them being humans), but regardless, it’s rather tenuous.  
The “Gas Earth ponies, make Aryanne proud” one I think for sure is Rule 0 (and 3), by the way.

Ohhh, I’ve been wondering why the art dried up lately. So mods used nazi imagery as an excuse to go full nazi on censorship? nice irony. hope it was worth ruining your site.

@Background Pony #4951  
Yea but you’re a bit late, it’s been going on for three months.