I'm very curious as to why this animation was deleted: https://e621.net/posts/4185473
It has this reason on it:

This post was deleted or flagged for the following reasons:

[DELETION] Inferior version/duplicate of post #2663934 / Previously deleted. / Does not meet minimum quality standards. (Generator edit) - Mairo - 3 days ago

But looking at the source, I see nothing wrong with the quality or anything that would conflict with the quality standards: https://twitter.com/ashraely/status/1670907882898849793
And the previously deleted post is here, listed as an inferior version: https://e621.net/posts/2663934

Now, say what you want about the animation style, but I think it's strange to say that it doesn't meet quality standards. It may be a bit janky, but if that was grounds for removal, I could point out a whole lot more that should be removed. Can someone explain this to me?

Directly from the quality standards:

All submissions need to display a solid grasp of artistic principles.
All submissions need to be presented in a legible / readable format.
The chosen medium (image, video, flash) needs to be of a high quality.
Traditional media needs to be either scanned in properly or photographed with impeccable lighting and contrast.

Well, if the uplodaded version had the same noise artifacts that the twitter links showcase, it could be considered a low quality recolor when compared to the parent posts.
I also assume the "generator edit" parts means the framerate was artificially mindled with AI, which I guess explains the unnatural timing (and slight morphing?) of the frames in the deleted post. There is also a ghosting effect on her chest spike.
The drawing may be of good quality, but the video(the medium) rendered is of bad quality.

..now that I look at it, looks like they forgot to color all frames behind the spike on post #2664265

e10109 said:
But looking at the source, I see nothing wrong with the quality or anything that would conflict with the quality standards: https://twitter.com/ashraely/status/1670907882898849793

So, you have no access to file that was actually uploaded.
It was fucking, crusty. It was compression hell, thousand times more artifacty compared to the given source.

m3g4p0n1 said:
Well, if the uplodaded version had the same noise artifacts that the twitter links showcase, it could be considered a low quality recolor when compared to the parent posts.
I also assume the "generator edit" parts means the framerate was artificially mindled with AI, which I guess explains the unnatural timing (and slight morphing?) of the frames in the deleted post. There is also a ghosting effect on her chest spike.
The drawing may be of good quality, but the video(the medium) rendered is of bad quality.

Alt versions like this from original author are generally OK, it's only if it's done by third party that hue shift edits like this ain't cutting it.
But yes, generator edit/artificial upscale in this instance means that artist used AI frame interpolation, so that's double nono under sites guidelines.

I'm also amazed how original authors aren't seeing how it alters their intented timing and other things on top of all the artifacts and morphing around that looks awful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KRb_qV9P4g

mairo said:
So, you have no access to file that was actually uploaded.
It was fucking, crusty. It was compression hell, thousand times more artifacty compared to the given source.

I saw the original post - you can see my comment there from 11 days ago as of time of writing. At the time I didn't see any issue and I obviously can't verify that now.
Really my main question is why does something with relatively poor video quality doesn't get remove while there are animations that seem to violate most of the quality standards this sitting deep in the negatives in rating that haven't been deleted.
Going back to compression, even some works that I absolutely love are pretty compressed. Just trying to figure out where exactly the line is.

e10109 said:
I saw the original post - you can see my comment there from 11 days ago as of time of writing. At the time I didn't see any issue and I obviously can't verify that now.
Really my main question is why does something with relatively poor video quality doesn't get remove while there are animations that seem to violate most of the quality standards this sitting deep in the negatives in rating that haven't been deleted.
Going back to compression, even some works that I absolutely love are pretty compressed. Just trying to figure out where exactly the line is.

I believe linking posts that you think are below acceptable quality would be helpful to understand your perspective, and easier to clarify where the line may be ^^

If the compressed version is the only version available, then that's usually okay since there's no option. But in this case, we have existing alts which didn't have such compression artifacts, so a new upload that posseses said compression means someone fucked up with the original. In this case, probably the artist messing around and testing new stuff.

...it also seems the artist deleted the tweet.

m3g4p0n1 said:
...it also seems the artist deleted the tweet.

No they didn't.

https://nitter.privacydev.net/ashraely/status/1670907882898849793

kemonophonic said:
No they didn't.

https://nitter.privacydev.net/ashraely/status/1670907882898849793

Ah, it appeared as such when I was logged out of twitter.