RND721 said:
Does anyone know when buying gold was available for the last time ? I'm looking forward to buying it but if it's not going to be available for months....
It was June 23 2022 and that was second time.
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pixarmomsyndrome said:
It's been a year and change, now.
I really don't want to have to dedicate time to regularly do tagging for months to *maybe* get Builder.
Try uploading from topic #24186. There're several hundred images there and it only takes like 500 decently tagged images to get Builder. The first few listed are also not too complex to tag, the very first one being pixel art character portraits. You've got 15 upload slots, just fill those up once or twice daily (you get them back on approval) and you'll get it in a week or three.
pixarmomsyndrome said:
It's been a year and change, now.
I really don't want to have to dedicate time to regularly do tagging for months to *maybe* get Builder.
Tbh when you are familiar with tags and keyboard shortcuts, tag-gardening something like 20 posts, even 50 posts a day while you casually browse the site is really nothing. The hardest part is starting; you don't have to crunch it, unless you really want builder fast, in which case Veraducks' advice is the more efficient method.
Oh hey this thread is still active it seems, I've been trying to get the gold membership for a handful months now and still no update rip :(
there are tons of tags to work with but you're really limited to (name of character) + (some bizarre nieche tag to find that PERFECT image)
みょん said:
Oh hey this thread is still active it seems, I've been trying to get the gold membership for a handful months now and still no update rip :(
there are tons of tags to work with but you're really limited to (name of character) + (some bizarre nieche tag to find that PERFECT image)
Yeah, at this point im just gonna attempt to earn builder status by uploading images lol
みょん said:
Oh hey this thread is still active it seems, I've been trying to get the gold membership for a handful months now and still no update rip :(
there are tons of tags to work with but you're really limited to (name of character) + (some bizarre nieche tag to find that PERFECT image)
For me, it's the inability to exclude large swaths of images without modifying my entire blacklist that's particularly frustrating. That said, maybe some way to have a small number of saved blacklist presets you could switch between would be a decent compromise.
For example, if I wanted to exclude 90% of Danbooru's content, I could have a blacklist that included all the popular mobile games, so I could occasionally choose to only see original characters and characters from anime and actual games.
I had sort of done this once using a separate account with a different blacklist and settings before the feedback page made me realize that doing that was very much not allowed and I deleted it (please don't ban me).
I thought maybe stacking a bunch of saved searches under a single label would work, but it doesn't seem to. I guess saved searches function differently?
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wakasagi888 said:
For me, it's the inability to exclude large swaths of images without modifying my entire blacklist that's particularly frustrating. That said, maybe some way to have a small number of saved blacklist presets you could switch between would be a decent compromise.
In about:userscripts , i think the "safelist plus" userscript is what you're looking for, but i don't personally use it so you have to try for yourself
Veraducks said:
Try uploading from topic #24186. There're several hundred images there and it only takes like 500 decently tagged images to get Builder. The first few listed are also not too complex to tag, the very first one being pixel art character portraits. You've got 15 upload slots, just fill those up once or twice daily (you get them back on approval) and you'll get it in a week or three.
Is there any 'official', for lack of better word, guidelines and targets for this process, tho? I mean, ultimately this is all just volunteers doing work and such, I fully understand that no one is "owed" a status upgrade, but while several posts on this thread talk about how it's 'not that much work', a simple search over the members list and you find 100+ users with 500+ uploads then 500, 1000+ edits that are not builders. (I'll grant several of those are either quite old or have negative feedbacks on their profile)
Like, I have no connection to this person whatsoever (just clicked on his profile while checking an artwork I liked and it's a great example of what I mean), but see user @TheGamingRodent. They have over 2k uploads (at 25% deletion rate), 30k post changes and a couple other stuff and still is only at member level, so there seems to be at least a degree of luck involved on top of everything else.
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Antedeguemon21 said:
Is there any 'official', for lack of better word, guidelines and targets for this process, tho? I mean, ultimately this is all just volunteers doing work and such, I fully understand that no one is "owed" a status upgrade, but while several posts on this thread talk about how it's 'not that much work', a simple search over the members list and you find 100+ users with 500+ uploads then 500, 1000+ edits that are not builders. (I'll grant several of those are either quite old or have negative feedbacks on their profile)
Like, I have no connection to this person whatsoever (just clicked on his profile while checking an artwork I liked and it's a great example of what I mean), but see user @TheGamingRodent. They have over 2k uploads (at 25% deletion rate), 30k post changes and a couple other stuff and still is only at member level, so there seems to be at least a degree of luck involved on top of everything else.
See help:users for the rough guidelines, but like you said there's no specific criteria that can "guarantee" something.
Note that it's quite easy to accumulate a large amount of post edits by performing cleanup and checking, which doesn't mean it's bad at all to do that, but the number of post changes isn't really meaningful in that sense.
On that wiki page you can also see how someone at a 25% deletion rate probably won't have great success with being promoted past maybe builder.
Antedeguemon21 said:
Is there any 'official', for lack of better word, guidelines and targets for this process, tho? I mean, ultimately this is all just volunteers doing work and such, I fully understand that no one is "owed" a status upgrade, but while several posts on this thread talk about how it's 'not that much work', a simple search over the members list and you find 100+ users with 500+ uploads then 500, 1000+ edits that are not builders. (I'll grant several of those are either quite old or have negative feedbacks on their profile)
Like, I have no connection to this person whatsoever (just clicked on his profile while checking an artwork I liked and it's a great example of what I mean), but see user @TheGamingRodent. They have over 2k uploads (at 25% deletion rate), 30k post changes and a couple other stuff and still is only at member level, so there seems to be at least a degree of luck involved on top of everything else.
25% deletion ratio isn't too great, and if you check their feedbacks they've had an issue with creating artist tags for any twitter account they upload from, without confirming if they actually created the work, despite being DM'd about it. Doesn't seem entirely unfair to me they're still only a member. A lot of work isn't going to earn you anything if that work is subpar or requires someone else to clean up after you.
Honestly, it probably helps a lot to be at least somewhat active in the forums. Forum activity is the primary reason I got promoted, and the extra visibility goes a long way. Admins aren't omniscient, they can't see every person with thousands of contributions if they're just quietly working in the background, and they probably have other things to do than go out of their way looking for them. I would imagine they're not exactly eager to promote every person with thousands of tag edits either, since it's not guaranteed they're good edits, and not a mess someone needs to clean up. Someone has to take the time to actually check that.
blindVigil said:
25% deletion ratio isn't too great, and if you check their feedbacks they've had an issue with creating artist tags for any twitter account they upload from, without confirming if they actually created the work, despite being DM'd about it. Doesn't seem entirely unfair to me they're still only a member. A lot of work isn't going to earn you anything if that work is subpar or requires someone else to clean up after you.
Honestly, it probably helps a lot to be at least somewhat active in the forums. Forum activity is the primary reason I got promoted, and the extra visibility goes a long way. Admins aren't omniscient, they can't see every person with thousands of contributions if they're just quietly working in the background, and they probably have other things to do than go out of their way looking for them. I would imagine they're not exactly eager to promote every person with thousands of tag edits either, since it's not guaranteed they're good edits, and not a mess someone needs to clean up. Someone has to take the time to actually check that.
Wouldn't they check the listing? I also noticed that some users only have a few tags and uploads get promoted.
Antedeguemon21 said:
Is there any 'official', for lack of better word, guidelines and targets for this process, tho? I mean, ultimately this is all just volunteers doing work and such, I fully understand that no one is "owed" a status upgrade, but while several posts on this thread talk about how it's 'not that much work', a simple search over the members list and you find 100+ users with 500+ uploads then 500, 1000+ edits that are not builders. (I'll grant several of those are either quite old or have negative feedbacks on their profile)
Like, I have no connection to this person whatsoever (just clicked on his profile while checking an artwork I liked and it's a great example of what I mean), but see user @TheGamingRodent. They have over 2k uploads (at 25% deletion rate), 30k post changes and a couple other stuff and still is only at member level, so there seems to be at least a degree of luck involved on top of everything else.
You can also check about:userscripts for useful scripts and howto:contribute, other howto:* and help:* for general info that can help with efficiency. Do anything that interests you in your free time if that's your goal for some reason.
I usually notice people while lurking the forums, but recently I've also been looking at uploaders and already noticed some nice users I'd recommend for promotion, 星野アイ is one that even got a promotion last week, and a list of users that could improve their upload and tag behavior.
darkimp72 said:
Wouldn't they check the listing? I also noticed that some users only have a few tags and uploads get promoted.
Did you miss the part where I said they would need to actually confirm that all those contributions were actually deserving of reward? Have you ever tried looking through hundreds of pages of tag edits? Or the part where I said I got promoted almost exclusively off of forum activity? Claiming to have seen something without providing examples doesn't mean anything.
Do you just not have anything better to do than try to sow discord in this thread?