A friend of mine convinced me to open up my anti-social and paranoid shell a bit. I make 3D furry-related character models, and I'm moderately interested in posting my work here. I have a couple of questions, I'm completely unfamiliar with how posting stuff works.

1. I generally only post my content on my personal website as a portfolio (and rarely I send people stuff through Discord), I don't use DA, FA, Inkbunny, Twitter, etc, and I'm not interested in those platforms, does that complicate things? Does that make sourcing harder in some sort of way?
2. Additionally, should I be worried about publicly sharing my website in sources? I'm a programmer, but I'm very unfamiliar with networking or web hosting, I just use a Namecheap domain with EasyWP, and I don't know if this would drive enough traffic to sudo-DDOS myself, or otherwise cause issues for me.
3. I've also only posted SFW content to my website, partially because I know my relatives sometimes look at it, but partially because I have no idea if I'm allowed to put my NSFW stuff on there, or how to moderate it. If I were to post my NSFW stuff here, how would sourcing work?
4. If it's possible, could I be added to the conditional DNP list? The way I want it is that it either has to come from me, or if someone else wants to post my stuff, it needs to have my watermark (most of my art on my website has my watermark). I'm fine with people posting my stuff if I forget to do it, but because I occasionally send people watermark-less versions of stuff on Discord, I'm worried about those being uploaded, and others stealing them and claiming it for themselves, and a watermark requirement would make me feel a bit better.
5. Is there anything else I should otherwise know about posting that isn't on the wiki?

Thanks,
Frozenreflex / Fro Zen

1. Sources outside of discord are highly preferred, but they aren't required in all cases. See the Code of Conduct: wiki #1638

• At least one source page should be publicly available, unless you are the artist, commissioner, or copyright owner of the artwork.

2. I can't say definitively, since I've no experience in web hosting myself, but unless you take off super hard I doubt you'll run into major issues, and if you do you seem like the kind of meticulous person who can find a work-around.
3. You could simply provide a link to any webpage page it's publicly available on, if there's no source available then see the Code of Conduct snippet above.
4. Any artist can apply for CDNP, see https://e621.net/wiki_pages/avoid_posting#get_dnp on how to apply
5. I assume you read the Uploading Guidelines, I don't have any specific tips except make sure to add at least 10 general tags, try to credit any models or furry-related assets you use in the post description, make sure anything you upload is furry/anthro related, oh and don't use any AI upscaling tools on your images. It won't get you in big trouble but it'll get taken down.

frozenreflex said:

1. I generally only post my content on my personal website as a portfolio (and rarely I send people stuff through Discord), I don't use DA, FA, Inkbunny, Twitter, etc, and I'm not interested in those platforms, does that complicate things? Does that make sourcing harder in some sort of way?

It doesn't make sourcing any more difficult. You should link to where the image can be found, and if it isn't posted anywhere, there is no source and thus no source necessary.

2. Additionally, should I be worried about publicly sharing my website in sources? I'm a programmer, but I'm very unfamiliar with networking or web hosting, I just use a Namecheap domain with EasyWP, and I don't know if this would drive enough traffic to sudo-DDOS myself, or otherwise cause issues for me.

I don't have the stats, but I don't think traffic from this site would cause a problem. People rarely visit the sources under a post anyways

3. I've also only posted SFW content to my website, partially because I know my relatives sometimes look at it, but partially because I have no idea if I'm allowed to put my NSFW stuff on there, or how to moderate it. If I were to post my NSFW stuff here, how would sourcing work?

You don't need to have another site as a source to post if you're the artist. It is nice, but not necessary

4. If it's possible, could I be added to the conditional DNP list? The way I want it is that it either has to come from me, or if someone else wants to post my stuff, it needs to have my watermark (most of my art on my website has my watermark). I'm fine with people posting my stuff if I forget to do it, but because I occasionally send people watermark-less versions of stuff on Discord, I'm worried about those being uploaded, and others stealing them and claiming it for themselves, and a watermark requirement would make me feel a bit better.

Yeah, you can. I think it might be a bit complicated because cDNP (and artist verification) might need offsite verification, though if you only post on e6 I think that can be worked around.

5. Is there anything else I should otherwise know about posting that isn't on the wiki?

If you've read the wiki, you're pretty well prepared
I guess the only extra thing I would mention is that you can get your account verified (which links your account to your tag)

Thanks for the help and reassurance, I've got my first post up now ( https://e621.net/posts/4882102 ), it has my personal website in the sources.

I do want the cDNP and artist verification, but as said that normally requires offsite interaction, do I need to get the attention of a moderator or something like that?

frozenreflex said:
Thanks for the help and reassurance, I've got my first post up now ( https://e621.net/posts/4882102 ), it has my personal website in the sources.

I do want the cDNP and artist verification, but as said that normally requires offsite interaction, do I need to get the attention of a moderator or something like that?

Actually, I think the best way might be to file a takedown and request artist verification (mention the account you want linked) and conditional dnp in the special instructions section.

snpthecat said:
Actually, I think the best way might be to file a takedown and request artist verification (mention the account you want linked) and conditional dnp in the special instructions section.

I'm reading the takedown page now, it says Posts OR Special Instructions, do I just leave the posts section blank?

frozenreflex said:
I'm reading the takedown page now, it says Posts OR Special Instructions, do I just leave the posts section blank?

Yes, since you aren't taking down any posts