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Feb 26th:A new bill in Arizona is making its way through the Senate that would force sites like e621 to implement mandatory age verification for all users—or face potential lawsuits. This system would require third-party vendors to verify every user’s age through a government database. Not only is this a massive violation of privacy, but it also introduces serious risks, including identity theft through phishing schemes and other malicious methods. Worse still, we would have no control over ensuring that user data is permanently deleted after verification.

Since e621 operates out of Arizona, this law would almost certainly impact us if it passes. If you want to help ensure that we can continue serving you without being forced to collect personal information, we urge you to contact Arizona’s senators and ask them to vote NO on this bill.

Please help spread the word about this issue and encourage others to take action.
Further information on the bill itself can be found at the Free Speech Coalition: https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/bill/arizona-hb-2112/

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  • gaylawyer said:
    Is there a record of how many tags do e621 have? This just a unrelated question too this post

    The "Tags" part of the site doesn't let you go beyond 750, so with that I'd say above 75 per page times 750 which is (definitely did this without a calculator) 56250

    Don't know how true it is but I would not be shocked if it was even above that, this site's a beast

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  • bitWolfy

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    lowintwizard said:
    The "Tags" part of the site doesn't let you go beyond 750, so with that I'd say above 75 per page times 750 which is (definitely did this without a calculator) 56250

    Don't know how true it is but I would not be shocked if it was even above that, this site's a beast

    There are a lot more tags than that.
    According to the stats page, e621 currently has 858,478 tags, although a number of them are empty.

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  • bitwolfy said:
    There are a lot more tags than that.
    According to the stats page, e621 currently has 858,478 tags, although a number of them are empty.

    The really interesting question is, how many empty tags does it have? What percent?

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  • bitWolfy

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    razzlesihn said:
    The really interesting question is, how many empty tags does it have? What percent?

    Well, it has been a month, and the total number of tags went up to 870,981, an increase of 12503.
    Based on the database exports, 447,546 tags report having 0 posts.

    It's kind of understandable. There are a lot of empty tags that are just typos and mistakes.
    ... people using hashtags as tags
    ... someone trying to change tag's category by appending "artist" in various forms to it
    ... some strange person just counting up to 552 using tags
    ... people competing for the longest tag name available
    ... just random nonsense
    It's still a very large number of completely pointless tags.

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  • bitwolfy said:
    Well, it has been a month, and the total number of tags went up to 870,981, an increase of 12503.
    Based on the database exports, 447,546 tags report having 0 posts.

    It's kind of understandable. There are a lot of empty tags that are just typos and mistakes.
    ... people using hashtags as tags
    ... someone trying to change tag's category by appending "artist" in various forms to it
    ... some strange person just counting up to 552 using tags
    ... people competing for the longest tag name available
    ... just random nonsense
    It's still a very large number of completely pointless tags.

    This was a super entertaining comment thank you lol

    Shout out to E6 team

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