People seem to think that AI stuff on the site hasn’t been a problem until now, and this is some spontaneous decision.
The fact that it hasn’t seemed like an issue to the average user is purely thanks to the mod team sacrificing their personal time and sanity to keep things clean and working for the rest of us, and at least I’m very grateful for that.
You really don’t need to look further than r34.xxx or Deviantart for example to see how messy things get when there’s little to no rules or people to moderate what’s being posted.
Clearly a lot of people, myself included, would much prefer having everything neatly on one site, as we like to browse both real art and AI art, but that conveniency obviously shouldn’t come at the cost of other people’s free time and mental health, especially if they’re not getting paid for it, so I support this change if it improves the site and the lives of the people who manage it. I just hope that Tantabus has some decent moderation, and I’ll be happy to keep posting and browsing AI stuff there instead.
All in all, I think the policy makes sense, and in the long run it will probably be an improvement for the site.
Also a question about people not respecting the daily upload limit. Wouldn’t it have been possible to just mark uploaders as AI artist, and forcefully limit them to 2 images a day, instead of letting people upload more than 2 and then having to remove the posts afterwards? I don’t know how big of a problem the daily limit regulation was compared to the other ones, but it seems like that would have been the easiest problem the solve. Granted I know next to nothing about making web sites, so maybe it wouldn’t have been worth the trouble if the daily limit rule breakers weren’t in the majority of the troublemakers.