I have 2 topics but I wasn't sure whether I should make 2 seperate forum-topics or not.
First one:
A while ago, post #362797 got deleted. It was flagged by Jeral: "Unpopular" and got deleted: "Quality control"
I didn't understand what unpopular meant so I asked in the comments. I got replied
downvotes always negative. -_-
and
Too much downvotes, which is another invalid reason to flag something
So I assume it got deleted because of the number of downvotes (score -9). But I'm a bit confused there. I can understand, that huge amounts of negative feedback on a post can be a valid reason to delete it. But 9 downvotes aren't that much. Also I think this is kind of a contradiction to the rule "Just because you don't like it doesn't mean that nobody else likes it."
And: If the amount of downvotes is a reason to delete a post, search for order:score_asc and you'll get loads of posts with negative scores. There's even a flash with a score of -264!
Could someone please clarify the situation?
And second one:
If you take the sum of all file-sizes of every post on e621, how much is that?
And how much is it without flash-files?
Edit: While I'm at it: e621 has an API. But I'm unable to find the documentation for it. Also: How much load can I put on that? Is it problematic if I iterate through every post and get e.g. the tag-list of it?
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