A blacklist is a list that you have which, by default, is blank. You can add tags to the blacklist, as many as you want. What this will end up doing is, as you search posts, it will automatically hide the images that contain that tag.

This may result in some pages appearing to have less images in it than other pages, or in the case of some popular tags, may hide a page entirely.

Do be careful when adding tags to the blacklist. If what you typed is misspelled, then it will not filter out the tags effectively.

Here are some link to additional information you can find about blacklists. Bear in mind that complaining that you do not want to see a particular type of image, and not editing your blacklist to filter it, is generally frowned upon.

General information
Discussion regarding usage

If you have any questions, let me know or reply here!

K.

You do realize that we know that it existed already? :|

Renard_Queenston said:
K.

You do realize that we know that it existed already? :|

Yes, I understand that there are people here who know what the blacklist is for. However, as we do still have new people coming to the site, this topic would be more for them.

Old, now hidden, topic name was better. :(

Rest in Peace Blacklist or Die, you shall be missed.

What was wrong with the old forum thread about this topic? Did we really need to make a new one? :I

EDFDarkAngel1 said:
Yes, I understand that there are people here who know what the blacklist is for. However, as we do still have new people coming to the site, this topic would be more for them.

Unfortunately most of the people who do the complaining aren't the sort to visit the forum, or even to read rules that are right in front of them.

corgi_bread said:
What was wrong with the old forum thread about this topic? Did we really need to make a new one? :I

The old thread contained language that is no longer appropriate for administrators, plus it was poorly phrased and delivered a message in a way that could have been greatly improved.

I think it's probably a good idea. It's a little more organised and professional now. When I first got on here, it was a bit like a maze trying to locate basic info like this. I mostly learned how to blacklist, how to modify searches, how aliases worked, how implications worked, etc by reading people's random comments about it on the forums. There's a few nooks and crannies with scattered info, but those are somewhat hard to refind later unless you've bookmarked them. So organising and streamlining some of the basics is probably a very good idea.

furrypickle said:
I think it's probably a good idea. It's a little more organised and professional now. When I first got on here, it was a bit like a maze trying to locate basic info like this. I mostly learned how to blacklist, how to modify searches, how aliases worked, how implications worked, etc by reading people's random comments about it on the forums. There's a few nooks and crannies with scattered info, but those are somewhat hard to refind later unless you've bookmarked them. So organising and streamlining some of the basics is probably a very good idea.

Which is strange considering the Wiki will link to all help pages on the very first page and all those little (help) links strewn across the page and near the related search and reply boxes.

But yeah, the use of the wiki as a means for self education needs to be more advertised in general.

EDFDarkAngel1 said:
The old thread contained language that is no longer appropriate for administrators

So we're not allowed to curse anymore?

That's nice.

ippiki_ookami said:
So we're not allowed to curse anymore?

That's nice.

This just applies to admins and the forums, right?

ippiki_ookami said:
So we're not allowed to curse anymore?

That's nice.

I don't think that's what he meant. I believe he was talking more about the way some admins/old-admins conducted themselves in the thread. I mean the thread title alone was "Blacklist or die". :| That's not really the best way to convey the message.

ippiki_ookami said:
So we're not allowed to curse anymore?

That's nice.

Shit
Piss
Fuck
Cunt
Cocksucker
Motherfucker
Tits

Halite said:
Shit
Piss
Fuck
Cunt
Cocksucker
Motherfucker
Tits

Ass
post #99531

TheHuskyK9 said:
Ass
post #99531

https://e621.net/comment/show/711375

:3

Edit: Don't forget to add taxes to the list.

ippiki_ookami said:
So we're not allowed to curse anymore?

That's nice.

If that's fucking true then fuck.

Maybe it's only admins that can't swear, and regular users still can.

I'd vote for that :3

I need to swear. It's in my blood for me to swear.

I can't stop.

Patch said:
I need to swear. It's in my blood for me to swear.

I can't stop.

U WOT?!?

NotMeNotYou said:
U WOT?!?

WOT U FUKIN SAY 2 ME YE CUNT. I FUKIN SWEAR ON ME MUM

NotMeNotYou said:
Which is strange considering the Wiki will link to all help pages on the very first page and all those little (help) links strewn across the page and near the related search and reply boxes.

But yeah, the use of the wiki as a means for self education needs to be more advertised in general.

The main wiki directory page that I think you're referring to has two different pages linked for blacklist info. Which is a little mazelike and unnecessarily confusing. It also is the only main link without a short mini description on that page.

When I was brand new here, the term "blacklist" meant nothing to me until after I had read people on the forums discussing what a blacklist was and why it would matter. Initially "blacklist" was up there with pools and blips as a "site feature I don't understand but eventually might figure out what it's for". It took seeing people talk about it on the forums to realise what I was missing, go back and find the wiki article and read the sticky. A thread like this might help close that gap between the available instructions and people realising what they're missing and should learn to use. Like you said, advertising the wiki as a resource. Giving things like blacklist a context.

There's also a lot of redundancy and conflicting info in all those little links strewn across the site. I think it's just the side effect of being written over time and then lost track of. For instance, there's a lot of overlap in topics (but different versions of the content) between what is linked on the wiki home page and what is linked over here in a broader site type directory . As an example, there are two different pages called FAQ located here and here and they don't contain the same information.

And even though I often use them, I still find it confusing why we have both this page https://e621.net/help/tags and this page https://e621.net/help/cheatsheet which are almost like two versions of each other. And some of that is also a rewording of what's on here https://e621.net/wiki/show?title=help%3Atags (which is linked from the wiki home page under "tagging guidelines".) Wouldn't it be more useful if some of that info was all gathered into the same page instead of re-worded on three separate pages?

Another unimportant but somewhat confusing discrepancy is that the tagging help/tagging checklist has some outdated tags which have since been aliased (like pubic_tuft was aliased to pubes, looking_at_each_other is now eye_contact, etc). It may seem unimportant, but when that list is often used by people new to the site to begin tagging, it is unnecessarily confusing to use the tag listed and then have it show up as a different tag once they save it and the alias kicks in. I've been tempted to go through and update those, but wasn't sure if normal members are supposed to edit such an important wiki or not. Would it be ok to do that, or is that a no-no?

It's little details like this that could use streamlining. Most of the information is written down somewhere, but the devil is in the details for how they all interconnect. Especially when you're new or looking specifically for something then you can get really turned around. I've bookmarked a few key pages that I wasn't sure how to relocate later. Ideally you shouldn't have to wonder how to find a key page again, it should be fairly straightforward where to look. So if some of these new changes are about streamlining all those little details, then I think that would be good.

Char said:
I don't think that's what he meant. I believe he was talking more about the way some admins/old-admins conducted themselves in the thread. I mean the thread title alone was "Blacklist or die". :| That's not really the best way to convey the message.

Well that's a fucking relief.

Char said:
I don't think that's what he meant. I believe he was talking more about the way some admins/old-admins conducted themselves in the thread. I mean the thread title alone was "Blacklist or die". :| That's not really the best way to convey the message.

I actual liked the old title/forum. It convey a point of "blacklist" block what you don't want to see and be happy or "die" if you don't blacklist and complain about stuff you don't want to see, you could get into trouble.

Now you can't even be somewhat creative with the titles. At least it wasn't named "Blacklist or go fuck yourself"

NH's state motto is 'Live Free Or Die', so I'm not sure why Blacklist Or Die is so offensive to people.

Char said:
I don't think that's what he meant. I believe he was talking more about the way some admins/old-admins conducted themselves in the thread. I mean the thread title alone was "Blacklist or die". :| That's not really the best way to convey the message.

I'm apprehensive about the value of "squeaky-clean and professional" e621. I see the potential for banned tags in its future.

Char said:
I don't think that's what he meant. I believe he was talking more about the way some admins/old-admins conducted themselves in the thread. I mean the thread title alone was "Blacklist or die". :| That's not really the best way to convey the message.

We're not making mass deletion of old admins' posts, just to pretend that past has never happened and site was always like this? Right?

Foobaria said:
I'm apprehensive about the value of "squeaky-clean and professional" e621. I see the potential for banned tags in its future.

https://e621.net/tag_alias?query=invalid_tag&user=&approved=all&order=tag There's your banned tags. :P

Gilda_The_Gryphon said:
We're not making mass deletion of old admins' posts, just to pretend that past has never happened and site was always like this? Right?

No one is pretending it didn't happen. I don't personally agree that the old forum thread should have been hidden, but I also understand that the message in it REALLY needed to be presented in a much better way.

corgi_bread said:
NH's state motto is 'Live Free Or Die', so I'm not sure why Blacklist Or Die is so offensive to people.

Professionalism

Does this mean that images such as cub and young with the rating explicit might possibly be banned in the future by BD?

Patch said:
Does this mean that images such as cub and young with the rating explicit might possibly be banned in the future by BD?

If this site goes the FA route it's too late and has already changed too much

I put MLP and Gay in my blacklist thingy. 4 out of five avatars are blacklisted nao.

guise y u so brony. ; A;

Louku_Toakura said:
I put MLP and Gay in my blacklist thingy. 4 out of five avatars are blacklisted nao.

guise y u so brony. ; A;

Mine isn't!

Halite said:
Mine isn't!

>:|

Butterscotch said:
Mine is! :3

Mineturtle!!! :)

Xch3l said:
Mineturtle!!! :)

That is-- I don't even-- how do they?

Mineturtles say "Hello :D" and then explode, not Hi.

Louku_Toakura said:
I put MLP and Gay in my blacklist thingy. 4 out of five avatars are blacklisted nao.

guise y u so brony. ; A;

To be fair, half the art here is gay as well

CamKitty said:
To be fair, half the art here is gay as well

To be fair, half of the furry community is gay as well.

Moon_Moon said:
To be fair, half of the furry community is gay as well.

True dat.

Moon_Moon said:
To be fair, half of the furry community is gay as well.

post #332600

Finally registered after years of use so I could stop typing in -mlp -cub on every search

http://i.imgur.com/Qzu86Ih.png

however a search for "spitroast" turns up among many others these results which are all properly tagged (All very NWS):

https://e621.net/post/show/433816/2014-anal-anal_penetration-back_turned-blush-clito

https://e621.net/post/show/431836/alazak-apple_bloom_-mlp-disembodied_penis-equine-e

https://e621.net/post/show/420273/anal-anal_penetration-bell-bell_collar-blush-bow-c

FuckShitUP said:
Finally registered after years of use so I could stop typing in -mlp -cub on every search

http://i.imgur.com/Qzu86Ih.png

however a search for "spitroast" turns up among many others these results which are all properly tagged (All very NWS):

https://e621.net/post/show/433816/2014-anal-anal_penetration-back_turned-blush-clito

https://e621.net/post/show/431836/alazak-apple_bloom_-mlp-disembodied_penis-equine-e

https://e621.net/post/show/420273/anal-anal_penetration-bell-bell_collar-blush-bow-c

Seems to work fine for me. If you try again, does it still show up? Also try a different browser and tell me if it works there.

FuckShitUP said:
Finally registered after years of use so I could stop typing in -mlp -cub on every search

http://i.imgur.com/Qzu86Ih.png

however a search for "spitroast" turns up among many others these results which are all properly tagged (All very NWS):

https://e621.net/post/show/433816/2014-anal-anal_penetration-back_turned-blush-clito

https://e621.net/post/show/431836/alazak-apple_bloom_-mlp-disembodied_penis-equine-e

https://e621.net/post/show/420273/anal-anal_penetration-bell-bell_collar-blush-bow-c

Not to rain on your parade or anything but you can still use the blacklist without an account as long as you have cookies on

tony311 said:
Seems to work fine for me. If you try again, does it still show up? Also try a different browser and tell me if it works there.

messed around a bit and it looks like it was a issue with javascript being off, i hadn't suspected that javascript would not be required for manual search blacklisting but required for the account blacklist.

FuckShitUP said:
messed around a bit and it looks like it was a issue with javascript being off, i hadn't suspected that javascript would not be required for manual search blacklisting but required for the account blacklist.

Yeah, the reason for this is that your computer still pulls all posts regardless of your blacklist, but your browser hides them from you through javascript. Although it has its issues, it has its benefits too, such as being able to see hidden posts by simply clicking the word "Blacklisted" on the left-hand side of the page any time your search results contain tags you've blacklisted.

It's also a benefit for the server because it's having to work less to give you your search results, because it's not having to process your blacklist (your computer does that). Imagine searching for "gay fox", and then the server also tacking on every individual line of your blacklist to your search as well (because the blacklist is processed per-line, not all at once). So the server would search for "gay fox", and would then have to search through those results for every line of your blacklist, so it can remove all the results that you don't want to see before sending them to your computer.

"User searched for 'gay fox', got it. Oh wait, this user also has a blacklist with 10 lines. Ok, well let's see.. 'these' posts have tags that match the first line of his blacklist, so I'll remove those.. 'these' posts have tags that match the 2nd line of his blacklist, so I'll remove those too.." and so on until it finally figures out which results to actually show you. Or we could just make your computer process all that PLUS give you the benefit of being able to quickly see the blacklisted images in your search results if you choose to. :P

I'm not saying that we wouldn't ever want to start having the blacklist process server-side at some point in the future. I'm not a developer for the site or in any other way, and my understanding of how the server would have to handle blacklist processing might not be completely accurate either, it's just the best idea of it I have. Our actual devs might have more insight.

I dunno about the blacklist. Lately it hasn't been working on hiding the pictures I don't want to see.

a_dick said:
I dunno about the blacklist. Lately it hasn't been working on hiding the pictures I don't want to see.

Have you put the tags on each line? Because if they are all on 1 line, it'll only blacklist posts with all the tags, if one tag is missing from a pic on that line, you'll still see it, even if you don't want to...

Moon_Moon said:
Have you put the tags on each line? Because if they are all on 1 line, it'll only blacklist posts with all the tags, if one tag is missing from a pic on that line, you'll still see it, even if you don't want to...

Did you know that you can actually check others' blacklists?

EsalRider said:
Did you know that you can actually check others' blacklists?

How do users do that?

Rainbow_Dash said:
How do users do that?

I'll just demonstrate it on my profile (one entry on the blacklist, not so interesting, but still...)
Let's just take the user ID... Or the link to the user profile...

https://e621.net/user/show/97563

... and change it a little...

https://e621.net/user/index.xml?id=97563

Xch3l pointed it out somewhere on the feature request thread (showing his blacklist to someone).

I remember doing that years ago

EsalRider said:
[...]Xch3l pointed it out somewhere on the feature request thread (showing his blacklist to someone).

I did what?

Edit: I just found forum #57274 and I'm pointing to where the blacklist is and gave a little help. Yup, went page by page, from 27 to 1, to look where I said that (also, found the origin of my script at forum #46283 and its original layout :') )

Maybe it was in a blip? *searches*

Xch3l said:
I did what?

Edit: I just found forum #57274 and I'm pointing to where the blacklist is and gave a little help. Yup, went page by page, from 27 to 1, to look where I said that (also, found the origin of my script at forum #46283 and its original layout :') )

Maybe it was in a blip? *searches*

No, it wasn't you, sorry. Why did I remember it was you? Gilda did that actually. (forum #96485)

I don't use the blacklist at all. Nothing here shocks me enough anymore.

Guess I just like to live dangerously!

Not sure how I missed this thread when it was right there in the Stickies. The help:blacklist page really was helpful.

I don't really use the blacklist, you never know what you might find.

VinylSparkledash said:
I don't really use the blacklist, you never know what you might find.

I use it as a way of not being limited to only 6 tags for certain searches. My most recent example is -male -female -dickgirl -herm -ambiguous_gender -cuntboy and blacklist maleherm to get the last bit (for tagging missed genders).

I never knew what I'd find there.

blackest_vulture said:
I don't use the blacklist at all. Nothing here shocks me enough anymore.

Guess I just like to live dangerously!

Two words : cheese grater.

parasprite said:
I use it as a way of not being limited to only 6 tags for certain searches. My most recent example is -male -female -dickgirl -herm -ambiguous_gender -cuntboy and blacklist maleherm to get the last bit (for tagging missed genders).

I never knew what I'd find there.

I strongly dislike that limit seeing how most searches end in -my_little_pony and either order:score or order:favcount

CamKitty said:
I strongly dislike that limit seeing how most searches end in -my_little_pony and either order:score or order:favcount

It doesn't reduce the tag count at all, but here's a useful tip: Use -mlp instead of -my_little_pony to make your list of terms (at least physically) shorter. It is faster to type and slightly easier to navigate.

parasprite said:
I use it as a way of not being limited to only 6 tags for certain searches. My most recent example is -male -female -dickgirl -herm -ambiguous_gender -cuntboy and blacklist maleherm to get the last bit (for tagging missed genders).

I never knew what I'd find there.

Ok. I didn't think to use it that way. Thanks!

A helpful function that I'm confident I'll never use.

I'm not the type of person that's grossed out. And there's no shortage of horrifying images on e621.

Is there a special tag for when a fart is the focus of an image? It's repulsive when that's the case, but only off-putting when it's a minor point in a comic (And sometimes, can even be humorous).

Furrin_Gok said:
Is there a special tag for when a fart is the focus of an image? It's repulsive when that's the case, but only off-putting when it's a minor point in a comic (And sometimes, can even be humorous).

I'm still trying to get that tag narrowed down. When I got to it many images were tagged fart farting gas gassy smelly stinky mustard_gas and it was impossible to blacklist with any consistency. I'm still not sure what to do with gas/gassy because that can refer to multiple things, unfortunately. I kind of put that project aside for a while when I got stuck at those.

Oh, but mustard_gas seems to be a working name for hyperfarting at least. It's not very consistently tagged, but if anybody has any good ideas for names I'd be happy to go through fart to separate out "fart as a fetish/focus" images and try to set up a framework for it. Mustard_gas/hyperfart only really works when it is excessive, but it isn't always fetishized or necessarily the "focus" (even if it does take up most of the frame) and probably wouldn't fit well with what you are looking for. I'm sure that people are both looking for this sort of thing for themselves or would like to blacklist it.

• fart
• fart_focus?
• hyperfart/mustard_gas/something_else?
• burping
• hyperburp? - I don't think there's really a need for this one, but I'm not sure.

Previous discussion: forum #146630

Thanks for linking that page, Parasprite. Did some research, and it's called eproctophilia.

There is, unfortunately, no proper term for diaper fetish, other than, well, diaper_fetish.

parasprite said:
Oh, but mustard_gas seems to be a working name for hyperfarting at least.

Where the hell did that name come from? I just hope people realize that mustard gas is an actual thing

Durandal said:
Where the hell did that name come from? I just hope people realize that mustard gas is an actual thing

Without even looking, I assume they were all done by one particular user who uploaded a lot of that kind of stuff who was...not the most invested in tagging.

I'll continue discussion in forum #146630 about the name/plan.

Furrin_Gok said:
Is there a special tag for when a fart is the focus of an image? It's repulsive when that's the case, but only off-putting when it's a minor point in a comic (And sometimes, can even be humorous).

Yes, eproctophilia or fart_fetish. No, we didn't need your opinion on it.

Is there any way to blacklist images by artist rather than by user?

TendoTwo said:
Is there any way to blacklist images by artist rather than by user?

By putting the artist name into the blacklist as you would any other tag.

narse, #Blacklists the artist tag "narse"

user:parasprite, #Blacklists everything I post

I know you can blacklist posts by the user/uploader like that, but is there any way to block posts by the tagged artist instead?

So that way not only will they be blocked no matter who uploaded them, but it also won't block other uploads not related to that artist that were uploaded by the same user.

TendoTwo said:
I know you can blacklist posts by the user/uploader like that, but is there any way to block posts by the tagged artist instead?

So that way not only will they be blocked no matter who uploaded them, but it also won't block other uploads not related to that artist that were uploaded by the same user.

Only add the artist tag to a new line.

That will blacklist any post with that artist tag.

In fact, I fixed your blacklist for you, you added artist: in front of it, that is not needed and can break the blacklist.

NotMeNotYou said:
Only add the artist tag to a new line.

That will blacklist any post with that artist tag.

In fact, I fixed your blacklist for you, you added artist: in front of it, that is not needed and can break the blacklist.

Oh wow, Thanks

Is there any way to add exceptions to the blacklist?

By that I mean, to make something like... Well, for example, what I tried just recently: "My_Little_Pony -Princess_Celestia"

I had hoped it would blacklist MLP art that did not include Celestia. It didn't work.

If there is some way to achieve that effect, it would be really very nice. If it's not possible, I guess... Feature request then?