Tagging (and filtering by it) would be good, but Iām not sure thereās the bandwidth for that; as in, uploaders probably wouldnāt tag their own stuff with ānegative tagsā, so thereād need to be a fair number of active users going around curating each image. It would be an additional workload, albeit distributed on more people that just mods, and avoid āunnecessary deletionsā, but could also fail if there arenāt enough people going at it.
The bandwidth will be demanded in any circumstance; uploaders will be expected to notice aberrant qualities and either refrain from posting, or tag them, and because people are imperfect, users will thereafter be expected to notice them and either report or fix missing tags. There are tradeoffs in the differences between the workloads - itās more work for uploaders and users to notice and identify all of the specific abnormalities to tag each of them in a useful way, vs. more work for moderators to review and take action on any image that would need deletion. In either case, there would also be roughly equal moderation workload to hand out repercussions to uploaders who routinely break the rules, whether the rule is to tag or to refrain from posting.
Annalee: I wonder though if that limit could be controlled with the same switch that says whether your uploads go into the approval queue or not? Iāll ask staff.
Update: This is possible, but will take some work to achieve. Sorry for the inconvenience in the meantime.
BigBuggyBastage: Seems like the easy solution would be to maintain the tagging limit on anonymous/BgP users, and substantially increase it for registered users (or at least those whoāve been around for a while).
Annalee: I think that might be how we head - just like what currently happens for people uploading images.
As far as I know, that is in fact already the way philomena works: āverifiedā accounts
are not subject to the
tag change limits, while logged-out and āunverifiedā accounts are. Account verification is performed by moderators by hand, intended to be based only on the userās record of good behavior on the site, not any kind of āverificationā of identity like the word often means on other social media. The site is supposed to automatically alert moderators about
accounts who have uploaded their 5th approved image to be reviewed for verification. Thatās the exact same state as for being exempt from the approval queue.
Thereās also a special permission for especially trusted accounts to be exempt from the 5-second interval between tag changes - I have that over on Derpibooru. Havenāt registered here yet, though.
I just looked at the nightly dump [ā¦]