Lot of text in all this to address, so please forgive me if I'm a bit quick today:

MyNameIsOver20charac said:
so if those posts pend to the end of times... so what? People can see them, and with that, the uploader's furry ego is happy.

As always, you make me giggle <3

That said, the posts didn't stay pending to the end of time. Every few weeks, someone would roll up their sleeves and generally delete everything that wasn't awesome.

It's like... the only difference now is that it happens on a schedule. Without anyone having to roll up their sleeves. And MAYBE a very few more posts get left to be caught by the moderator.

hslugs said:
"Our mission: To archive the best/strangest/most excellent animal/anthro-related artwork, regardless of content, for all those who wish to view it."

If I had a dollar for every time someone said something like... "omg how can you allow cub porn here???" or... some other freak out over cub porn, feral porn, gore, scat, vore... I could probably afford a vacation somewhere nice.

There was a time when people were getting banned because they would not shut up about wanting to ban MLP content.

That's not to say that it couldn't be phrased better, but that is the reason behind this wording, as added back in 2011, around the time the "blacklist or die" was installed.

And by the way. I don't think calling e621 an "archive" is a good idea. It's a crappy archive. To be an archive, just scrape FA/IB/Weasyl/whatever indiscriminately like archive.org does with the WWW as a whole.

That's what we've been calling ourselves for a decade.

Do you really want e6 as you know it to go away and just be a repository for scrapped websites? I am pretty sure you can already find something like that out there if you look around.

CCoyote and Ikdind's clever plans! <3

It's a nice idea, but... like.. if I could already upvote or down, then I should delete or approve. The problem is the "eeeeh.... maybe?" posts. okay line art but shitty coloring, shitty line art, but nice colors, okay line art, okay colors... a photo but maybe not an awful one? a really messy sketch, "this one looks okay, but how did someone draw a face that nicely while fucking up the hand like that? did they trace?"

It could be useful sometimes though! this is actually something I *would* love to see on the site, because there are sometimes some submissions where I feel "I like this, but I don't know if it's good enough" It definetly COULD help to bring some pistures it a decision... if peopel use it which is problem number 2. Old dogs, new tricks and all that.

CCoyote said:

ikdind's response

Maybe it would just be easier to reduce the limbo time from 30 days to 14? Instead of a month before an unjudged post is autodeleted, make it two weeks. That would reduce the heartburn period for contributors and the length of the awaiting-approval list for janitors and admin.

It might not reduce complaints, and it could make them more shrill, but everyone would know the status sooner and could move on with their lives.

It's not a bad idea honestly, but 14 days is probably a bit short. RL does happen and bad things cluster together in groups sometimes. I know there was a period a couple months back where it seemed like half the staff was sick or busy.

and I know historically... there's been at least one period of time in the past where the approvals were backed up liek a month. Yikes.

Maybe 21 days? but 30 is a nice round number.

It's worth considering.