Yes, yes it does. Believe it or not, we have mods and admins here, and they are not you. If we don't want something here, the speed at which we currently receive new posts is slow enough that we will remove it. This also includes comments like 'take this shit off the site'. I am going to start banning fuckers if people keep trying to backseat mod.

I would assume this is common sense, but hey, here goes:

DO: Point out duplicate images via a deletion request with a link to the original image. This is very helpful, and appreciated.

DO: Comment on images in the comments. That does not necessarily mean your comments must be flowers and roses, but also don't try to be a blatant troll. Try to make some sort of point in each post, for good or bad.

DO: Tag images/fix tags yourself if possible, instead of posting 'this tag is wrong'. If you know it's wrong, fix it. However, remember the cardinal rule here too - post what you SEE in the image, not things that have to be described from an external source. (Examples of this - if a character looks 10 but artist says it's 700 years old, keep cub tag. If character looks exactly like a unicorn but artist says its actually a turtle, you should probably tag it as a unicorn.)

DO: Use tag filters to filter content you don't like or want to see, or grow a thick enough skin you can learn to ignore it. Gore, cub, gay, straight, amputation, sonic art - there's lots of stuff you might not personally like, but we're not here to cater to a single person, or even a group of people. If you don't like it, ignore it and move on. If you are having trouble doing this, this site may not be right for you.

DO NOT: Make the majority of your comments 'oh man I want to yiff this' and then go into graphic detailed fanfiction of how you will accomplish this, or other similarly creepy comments about your masturbation habits. Post if you like it, but keep the really creepy stuff to a minimum, folks.

DO NOT: Backseat moderate. If you have a problem with the moderation policies in place, please feel free to contact us through the myriad of ways available - IRC, Forum, etc. and discuss them like reasonable people. Don't throw a tantrum if you don't get your way.

DO NOT: Make posts specifically to troll or incite people. There is a difference here between giving negative feedback on an image and outright trolling - I am putting trust in our user base that they're mature enough to know the difference. If you dislike something, feel free to note it if you must, but try to be a little classy about it.

DO NOT: Ask to be made an mod, or try to act like one in order to show how 'good' you'd be as one. It just makes you look like a dick. When and if we need new mods, we're definitely not picking from people who look like they're making a power/superiority play here. The best thing you can do, honestly, is be a helpful poster and frequent contributor of quality material, and get involved with the site through IRC or the comments/forum.

---Thank you.---

If we work together, we can make this site a pretty classy place to be, for a site all full of horrific animal-man porn and all. Leave the drama and cliche furry overreactions for other places, and keep this place nice. I put my faith in you.

FurZ said:
So, what kind of images ARE acceptable? Furry, of course, but what else? For example, post #56983 is just a plain old picture of sunflowers. I'm completely at a loss of how a mod allowed it. If I may speak my mind, allowing too many images that aren't related to the main purpose of this site may eventually significantly lower its quality.

It's pretty simple. You take your life into your hands, so to speak, if you want to post something off topic. If a mod happens to fancy it, congrats, you live. If not, sorry, you're banned. No tears will be shed.

We're not going to post strict definitive guidelines because the instant we do, people WILL try and skirt the edges of them at every chance. Keeping them vague and nebulous keeps people on their toes, and makes them second guess what they post. Ultimately, that leads to more on-topic posts because users who don't want to get banned won't be as likely to push their luck.

Because while this is primarily a furry site, it is not exclusively one. If we like something enough, or feel that our definition of furry includes it, then we let it slide.

Given how insanely few non furry images are on the site here, I still scratch my head over people who get their panties in a twist over it. People seriously seem to get offended or upset over non-furry artwork, as if it is somehow tainting or defiling this horrific repository of scat, cub, vore, guro, inflation, and all sorts of other horribleness I cannot describe that we have going here.

This also brings me to a side point - the next time I hear some idiot furry cry that furry art isn't about the porn, and that the people who like the porn are in the minority...well, we allow the users to upload basically anything furry whatsoever with next to no restrictions, and look at what the userbase has seen fit to give us. Tag cloud is a fascinating insight into the sorts of things furries, by volume, truly want, produce, and distribute.

CyrilC said:

This is pretty stupid, even though other stuff is allowed this a site geared towards porn. It's like saying the prevalance of pornography on danbooru/gelbooru is proof that anime is all about the porn.

I'm not disagreeing with the conclusion mind you, just about everyone who gets into furry does so for the porn, but this is some of the most astoundingly bad logic I've seen in ages.

This site is not and never was explicitly 'geared towards porn' - saying that it is, is your personal opinion and bias, and it is objectively wrong.

I can say it is objectively wrong, because I have been here before the site existed and had a hand in its inception, and at no point was the plan EVER for it to be a 'primarily porn site', it was always to be a general artist/resource locator and image dump/directory for ALL furry/funny images. Furthermore, if it was geared towards porn, we'd be actively removing non-pornographic images, as they would run contrary to the intent of the site, were it supposed to be a porn site. If we wanted to make it primarily porn, what purpose would allowing floods of non-pornographic material serve except to dilute the searches and return hundreds of potential results we wouldn't want?

The fact your account is a DAY old and you're already lecturing me on the intentions and goal of the site is pretty telling though of the attitude that illustrates EXACTLY what I was talking about - that yes, apparently it IS all about the hellsmut and porn for most furries - even you think it so after only a day here.

luvdaporn said:
ok that has to be a record or something. he got banned within 24 hours of joining and i can't stop laughing. KO'd.
admin wins X.X

You missed his/her/its REALLY weird forum topics, that I actually went ahead and deleted. I don't understand our userbase sometimes, I think, what with your newfangled eye-phones and digital watches :(

Oh hey look ban evasion by the weird freaky guy. YOU WIN A PRIZE.

Silent-Hunter said:
That doesn't seem very fair. What if I think something is acceptable, and you don't?

You could always have a big cry about it on your livejournal and tell everyone the admins eat babies or whatever is in vogue this week, I guess. I think that's the standard operating procedure in these cases.

If I may go out on a limb here - and I may - you might actually be some rainman-esque manner of mentally retarded if you're actually afraid, as you admit, to post ANY image at all because of this rule. Let us break this down - it would seem then that you're somehow simultaneously capable of posting an image, while being completely unaware of what it contains, the context of the image.

It is like, having a folder of furry images, and a folder of photographs of your own bowel movements, and then seizing up when it comes time to post from one or the other because you honestly can't tell which would get you banned and which is ok in the context of the site.

Userbase, you are failing me. :/

Ryukurai said:
...as admin of a few other places/sites myself...a photo of a stallion was posted the site with it's genitals colored a nice rainbow...I posted two photos of the same horse...the photo had no humans in it at all and thus did not in any way exhibit any traces of "bestiality", the photos should have been deleted...Send me a PM if you want to know more or to discuss making an image board for reference pics (no bestiality, just animals being, well, animals).

Gah fuck you are creepy go away with your horse genital photos.