Topic: Bad-quality posters will kill this site.

Judging by the amount of negative votes on post #22414, I think the attached discussion concerns us all.

This person is consistently posting terrible 'art'. Arcturus's position is that people should simply tag-blacklist the user. I honour Arc's general 'hands-off' approach but in this case he is wrong. That's not what blacklists are for.

Blacklists exist to handle matters of personal taste.

Overall quality rests in the hands of the mods. It is the essential asset of this site, and they MUST ACT to protect it.

e621's system cannot operate the way FA does, with an "anything goes" approach. It would drown in a sea of crap. How many new users is this site going to recruit if the front page looks like it's drawn by a psychotic six-year-old? And established users should not be building up a library of blacklist tags just to screen out crap art. We haven't had to do that since the days of the VCL.

Requests to the mods:

Please act to restrain this user, because he's annoying.

Please generally enforce the "high quality" requirement of the ToS, because your site depends on it.

Updated by SpanKing