I recently made an account to post my own art so that it would be easily searchable. I figure that the tough moderation is a fair trade-off for the ability to get my stuff up and have some control of the tagging, and all of my art has been approved so far. Reception has been mixed, but I figured any site with downvoting would be more scrutinizing.

However, reading the forums, it appears that self-posting is a more contentious topic than the impression I was given. I know more art is posted by third-parties than artists, and I imagine that people would want boorus to be more about appreciation than promotion, but some of the discussion seems weirdly discouraging when there's a carve-out in the upload guidelines for artists who want to control posts of their own art.

What I want to know is whether self-posting is something that users might pick up on and try to discourage in spite of the moderation outcome, and whether it might be better in the long run to avoid self-posting to avoid such scrutiny, or if I'm just being overanxious and having my art up quicker outweighs any negative reception I might get from self-posting.

The discouragement comes because treating a booru like a gallery is a recipe for melancholy and demotivation. Your art can get deleted for quality reasons, you don't have as much control over tags as you might think as there is tagging standards, so things that are visually incorrect will be removed and you could face penalization for faulty tagging if not worse. Your post could get voting ratio' negatively and you could end up with a score of -x on the post. If you post lower quality files then elsewhere you have public those files could get replaced removing them from being attached to your account. e621 has a like, a whole class of competitive cataloguers who try to out-do each other all the time in being the best tagging, the best sourcing, the best public quality files. Suggesting new tags, implications for tags ect. It's what makes it so great, but also what makes it so stressful for people who are new to it. I've completely nuked users whole upload counts from existence multiple times simply due to them not acquiring the best public content the first time, and I'm not the only person to do this. If you want to archive your own content, all the power to you and good luck with it. But just be aware it's a stressful place to be for the uninitiated.

The answer is usually no.

Uploader's name is not visible on the post page (for reasons unrelated to this question), so it's not immediately obvious who posted what.
Your artwork is of good enough quality to stay on the site, but the artstyle and subject matter might not be everyone's cup of tea.
That's not something you can do much about.

versperus said:
The discouragement comes because treating a booru like a gallery is a recipe for melancholy and demotivation. Your art can get deleted for quality reasons, you don't have as much control over tags as you might think as there is tagging standards, so things that are visually incorrect will be removed and you could face penalization for faulty tagging if not worse. Your post could get voting ratio' negatively and you could end up with a score of -x on the post. If you post lower quality files then elsewhere you have public those files could get replaced removing them from being attached to your account. e621 has a like, a whole class of competitive cataloguers who try to out-do each other all the time in being the best tagging, the best sourcing, the best public quality files. Suggesting new tags, implications for tags ect. It's what makes it so great, but also what makes it so stressful for people who are new to it. I've completely nuked users whole upload counts from existence multiple times simply due to them not acquiring the best public content the first time, and I'm not the only person to do this. If you want to archive your own content, all the power to you and good luck with it. But just be aware it's a stressful place to be for the uninitiated.

bitwolfy said:
The answer is usually no.

Uploader's name is not visible on the post page (for reasons unrelated to this question), so it's not immediately obvious who posted what.
Your artwork is of good enough quality to stay on the site, but the artstyle and subject matter might not be everyone's cup of tea.
That's not something you can do much about.

Thanks for the responses. That's a lot off my mind.