I usually end up checking whether an artist is DNP or not by running a search with their artist tag, and if there's no results, then following up on the actual list. The list is also kinda hidden-- from the upload page, there's no direct link to it, and you have to click around a bit to find it. What if we were to have an image that just said "Artist is DNP," visible from the thumbnail, and tag every DNP artist with it? That way, if you ran a search on an artist, you could tell the difference between an artist who doesn't have any postings and an artist on the DNP list.

Maybe it's dumb, but it seems like it'd make it easier to see who is and isn't on the list.

Not possible, all of the DNP artist tags are aliased to "avoid_posting".

They all imply avoid_posting. It isn't an alias. There is no technical problem with this suggestion.

Peekaboo said:
I'm guessing this'd be better to bring up on the feature request page. but eh. I'd say a button that leads directly to the DNP list on the Upload screen would be better.

+1

I actually already brought this up as a response to Gilda the gryphon in the feature request thread https://e621.net/forum/show/30573?page=26

I probably should've made a thread instead of letting the idea go ignored.

A link to the DNP (or collapsible list) on the upload page should have been made a long time ago. It's just common sense.

ippiki_ookami said:
A link to the DNP (or collapsible list) on the upload page should have been made a long time ago. It's just common sense.

True. I still like the idea of a tagged image with all the artists as well-- couldn't hurt, right? It also gets across that those artists are on the DNP quickly and easily.

ippiki_ookami said:
A link to the DNP (or collapsible list) on the upload page should have been made a long time ago. It's just common sense.

I think the reason why this has never been done was because it would be e621-specific information on a page that would be used by any other site using e621's software. Basically, there'd be a link to e621.net's DNP list on that page for ANY site that ran Ouroboros, e621's software.

Last I heard is that we're still trying to maintain not having e621-specific information in Ouroboros itself. I'm sure there's some way the DNP list could end up on (or linked to from) e621's upload page without it being an issue for other sites running the software, but this is why it's not as easy as just "put a link on the upload page".

Now if we no longer cared about other sites using the software, it'd be a different story...

Well the specific link wouldn't have to be hardcoded into the software. It could be an admin-editable text field that any site using Ouroboros could customize.