Hi, I'm the artist in question. I'd like to post more of my stuff here but wanted to make sure of something first.

I create most of my work under the name Apex, but I also draw watersports art under the name Semiaquatic. I like keeping them separate because I'd imagine there isn't a ton of audience overlap. I've read past threads about this, and the consensus seems to be that one artist can be tagged under different names if they prefer to keep a portion of their work separate from the rest (which I do.)

Is there any specific protocol that I'd have to follow for this? Would I be able to have separate artist pages for each? Or would both names have to be aliased?
If I have to post everything under one name that's ok, I just wanted to see.

apexaaaaa said:
Hi, I'm the artist in question. I'd like to post more of my stuff here but wanted to make sure of something first.

I create most of my work under the name Apex, but I also draw watersports art under the name Semiaquatic. I like keeping them separate because I'd imagine there isn't a ton of audience overlap. I've read past threads about this, and the consensus seems to be that one artist can be tagged under different names if they prefer to keep a portion of their work separate from the rest (which I do.)

Is there any specific protocol that I'd have to follow for this? Would I be able to have separate artist pages for each? Or would both names have to be aliased?
If I have to post everything under one name that's ok, I just wanted to see.

On e6 this tends to be a social split and not a technical split. People will naturally try to consolidate your artwork under one name, and the administration will follow along with their cues and create aliases unless it's spelled out that it should be distinct. This happens because artists often have different aliases on different platforms, and users and administration want an umbrella term for usability.

The procedure for this is to create artist pages for both aliases and make a note that content of a specific type should go under a specific alias, and then periodically check to make sure that it's being enforced and correcting artist tags as needed when people get it wrong. Once this has gone on for a little while, it tends to moderate itself and stay split up.

No aliases or implications are required for this.

For example of how this has been done by others in the past, look at https://e621.net/artists/16780

kiranoot said:
On e6 this tends to be a social split and not a technical split. People will naturally try to consolidate your artwork under one name, and the administration will follow along with their cues and create aliases unless it's spelled out that it should be distinct. This happens because artists often have different aliases on different platforms, and users and administration want an umbrella term for usability.

The procedure for this is to create artist pages for both aliases and make a note that content of a specific type should go under a specific alias, and then periodically check to make sure that it's being enforced and correcting artist tags as needed when people get it wrong. Once this has gone on for a little while, it tends to moderate itself and stay split up.

No aliases or implications are required for this.

For example of how this has been done by others in the past, look at https://e621.net/artists/16780

Will do, thank you!

I will add that:

Firstly, there is probably more audience overlap than you think.

Secondly, there isn't much of a practical reason to have separate identities on a platform where everyone is expected to blacklist content they don't want to see, which can be much more granular and fine-tuned to people's individual preferences than anything you could offer them. In fact, complaining about content you could have blacklisted is a bannable offence on this site. The worst that could happen is your watersports pics get downvoted, but that doesn't usually happen for WS in my experience, and even if it does scores mean nothing. (Scat is more of a 50/50 chance, and only gore seems to go reliably negative.) There are plenty of artists who draw some content I like and some content I don't, but because I'm never forced to look at their entire gallery unfiltered, it doesn't concern me.

Basically this isn't FurAffinity or Twitter. While it's possible to have multiple artist tags (as in the staff won't actively try to stop you), it is generally easier to work with the local systems and culture than attempt to import solutions to problems that no longer apply.

wat8548 said:
I will add that:

Firstly, there is probably more audience overlap than you think.

Secondly, there isn't much of a practical reason to have separate identities on a platform where everyone is expected to blacklist content they don't want to see, which can be much more granular and fine-tuned to people's individual preferences than anything you could offer them. In fact, complaining about content you could have blacklisted is a bannable offence on this site. The worst that could happen is your watersports pics get downvoted, but that doesn't usually happen for WS in my experience, and even if it does scores mean nothing. (Scat is more of a 50/50 chance, and only gore seems to go reliably negative.) There are plenty of artists who draw some content I like and some content I don't, but because I'm never forced to look at their entire gallery unfiltered, it doesn't concern me.

Basically this isn't FurAffinity or Twitter. While it's possible to have multiple artist tags (as in the staff won't actively try to stop you), it is generally easier to work with the local systems and culture than attempt to import solutions to problems that no longer apply.

Late getting back, but thanks. You're right that it'd probably be easier to do this. I guess I was thinking more about people who are new to e6 and don't know how to blacklist or -tags when searching, but that's probably a minority.