Antedeguemon21 said:
I feel it's worth pointing it's a very large amount of work and shouldn't be taken as a permanent "substitute" over never having gold as an option again. I wouldn't be surprised if the average number of hours spent editing the site gets close to the hundreds before most people gain the promotion. More power to those that attempt the grind and that's certainly part of the reason why we'd rather be here than other boorus, but I sincerely hope someone is at least putting some degree of effort into restoring gold purchases.
I reaaaally doubt any admin is seriously viewing the builder status as a permanent substitute for gold purchases, the reason why it's mentionned as an option is precisely because it's an alternative for the time being.
But hosting a site the size of danbooru isn't free, so it's safe to assume "slacking" isn't the reason for the issue still being there to this day
Now for the number of hours spent "grinding", yeah, the time spent contributing is certainly not small business, i am in fact lucky to have the ability to just switch to danbooru tabs several times through the day, but tbh, most of the time i've spent on the site so far was casual browing, most of my contributions were done with me just actually using the site and then sprinkling some edits because i noticed i could and i might as well. (my familiarity with the site from prior years of lurking must've helped me save time, but still)
But to make things short, my point is, if i deduct the time spent browsing the site from the time spent contributing, it's not too bad; especially given i must've made an amount of mistakes in it; One can still get promoted with less contributions.