Hey I am an artist with a small problem with how my work shows up.

It's no surprise that this place generates plenty of views for my work, to which I am super grateful. But as it turns out it's also a curse, because when I have better work here it can be obscured by my many other works. Sketches, wips, doodles, the like. I love makin em but they do kinda get in the way of my so-to-say "gallery" here.
Sure users can search my work like, "dacad favcount:>1000000" or whatever but by that point most people might just not even care. I think a simple solution to this would be a simple folder option for scraps or simpler work. Maybe hidden behind a vote threshold or the "sketch" tag?

This would keep it pseudo-hidden and make it just that much cleaner, will still show up in regular searches but not just searches with the artist name?
And not just sets.
The site was overhauled a bit ago, and the new features were nice, but it's still lacking. I know "It's just a booru" But come on, it's grown way past that at this point.

The fact of the matter is that the site is still built to be run as a booru, and trying to add new features onto the site that are outside of its intended use would be tough.
Either on the coding side of things or how the site handles such new additions.

And I don't think it would be a good idea to add "scrap folders" for artists.
WIPs should be replaced with completed works if possible, and if it's left as such then it will be displayed as such.
Giving the ability to selectively "pseudo-hide" posts from public view would literally defeat the whole purpose of the site and also open a whole new can of worms to deal with.
Who gets to hide the posts? What makes a post eligible to be "hidden"? Is it going to be subject to abuse (i.e. only selecting best works to be displayed)? Who has the final say of what gets shown and what gets hidden (mods vs artists)?

Honestly, it'll be better for you to create a new artist tag for sketches/WIPs/doodles and another for completed works if you want to keep things tidy.

Given the philosophies of e621 (moderator approval for uploads, variable upload limits, uploading something does not automatically give you control over it, TWYS generally overrides artist when it comes to tagging), there seems to be neither any chance of, nor benefit to this being implemented.

it's grown way past that at this point.

The biggest features present on e621 that aren't present in the code it's forked from are things like blips and sets. I think the idea that e621 has grown past being "just a booru" has no basis in reality.

If I were you, I would put Scraps: {{dacad ~sketch ~monochrome}} on your profile, or a similar query, if you are insistent on not using sets or pools.

Hidden is not the right term, I think a better descriptor is off to the side, out of the way.

I just like cleanliness, I am a stickler for the sorta thing.

Here is a dumb little mock-up

Some kind of tag-based sub-grouping, it looks like? When you search for dacad, for example, the site is just searching for and presenting posts that contain that tag, no different than if you had searched for male/male. Folders don't really make sense in this context since you're dealing with search results, not a gallery page.

Given some minutes thinking about it, the best I can think of is some kind of 'soft blacklist' (greylist? grouplist?) for users, which removes items from the search results given a set of tags, but rather than outright hiding them, it groups them in an off-to-the-side thumbnail indicating how many have been removed. Clicking on it would either go to a separate page showing just those results, or show/hide them dynamically in the current page. In your mockup, for example, a user could create a "Sketches" tag group with the tags ~sketch ~wip, and when you search for anything, like pokémon, the main page will show the normal results, except for posts that contain either the sketch or wip tag. If at least one such post exists on the page, a thumbnail for it will appear on the side with the number of posts that match (one of such posts would be used as the thumbnail). Clicking on it would show those extra posts in some way. This greylist or grouplist would not impede your ability to see the post in any way, it would just alter how it's presented in search results.

That's just a quick off-the-cuff idea, though. No idea how feasible it would be on a technical level, or if it would even be a decent UI/UX design.

watsit said:
Some kind of tag-based sub-grouping, it looks like? When you search for dacad, for example, the site is just searching for and presenting posts that contain that tag, no different than if you had searched for male/male. Folders don't really make sense in this context since you're dealing with search results, not a gallery page.

Given some minutes thinking about it, the best I can think of is some kind of 'soft blacklist' (greylist? grouplist?) for users, which removes items from the search results given a set of tags, but rather than outright hiding them, it groups them in an off-to-the-side thumbnail indicating how many have been removed. Clicking on it would either go to a separate page showing just those results, or show/hide them dynamically in the current page. In your mockup, for example, a user could create a "Sketches" tag group with the tags ~sketch ~wip, and when you search for anything, like pokémon, the main page will show the normal results, except for posts that contain either the sketch or wip tag. If at least one such post exists on the page, a thumbnail for it will appear on the side with the number of posts that match (one of such posts would be used as the thumbnail). Clicking on it would show those extra posts in some way. This greylist or grouplist would not impede your ability to see the post in any way, it would just alter how it's presented in search results.

That's just a quick off-the-cuff idea, though. No idea how feasible it would be on a technical level, or if it would even be a decent UI/UX design.

I think Derpibooru has something similar, but only for single tags. On your blacklist, you can specify "hidden" tags, which completely hides any posts that have them, and you can specify "spoilered" tags, which hides posts behind a generic thumbnail that you can click away. In theory, it shouldn't be impossible to have those "spoilered" posts get grouped together.