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Upload Feedback Thread - post here if your uploads keep getting deleted

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I'd like to get some feedback, of a different sort.

I just had a set of a comic get deleted (starting post #6930566). I pretty much know that the reason for this is stylistic choice, but it does make me like some feedback on these stylistic preferences. Taken individually, the piece has some good art design, taken as a collective it is a cute story of how Edna Mode met Mr. Incredible from the movie. I can understand if that is not the preference of the danbooru's approvers broadly, and am willing to keep that in mind of the choices I make in uploading pictures in the future.

My question is more to the extent to which I need to keep these guidelines in mind when posting comics. As a medium, comics in a series are pretty dangerous when you don't have contributor privileges. They hold a fairly large portion of the upload count and can devastate your approved uploads if they get deleted. Speaking bluntly, it does make me question whether they are worth uploading, as it is the collective whole can often justify it.

Now, don't get me wrong, I am not disagreeing with the decision, nor do I regret uploading that comic. I uploaded it ahead of time with the resolution that if it wasn't approved than I would take this hit. Though now that it has I would like some feedback of how to proceed in order to be a better uploader for danbooru in the future.

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@ShockedArtman118 said:

wondering why post #6926891 wasn't approved

3d porn is not super popular here, and is less likely to get approved. Especially when it's, errr, a futanari fucking a stuffed toy? Just not a fetish that will appeal to a lot of approvers.

@argentb said:

I'd like to get some feedback, of a different sort.

That is simply not an artstyle that is popular here. Danbooru is still fundamentally an anime site, and it almost borders on off-topic. You can always post 2-3 pages of a comic to test the waters before committing, or join the Discord server and ask to see if any approvers like it enough to approve the whole thing.

hdk5 said:

why weren't those sexy erotic little girls approved

I can't help you much here since I just don't like loli and will probably never approve it. Sorry.

@sidbarrett said:

Hello, could you please tell me why this picture was deleted? post #6745184
Please consider reviewing it again.

Amateurish shading and lineart. The breasts in particular are overly simplistic.

@vivoleko01 said:

post #6925939

This was probably skipped since it looks a lot like a crop. Cropped versions of a larger post will be deleted. However, I did notice that the background is slightly different, so I'll approve it.

@neptuniablade said:

Am curious why those didn't get approved?

https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/6925453?q=status%3Adeleted+user%3Aneptuniablade

Torso/arm/breast proportions are off.

@SimpleWatcherOfLife said:

Hello, I'm curious on why these two posts didn't get approved:

post #6924695
post #6925199

Just too simplistic and amateurish.

@Pandastel said:

Request for these to be reapproved, I don't think there's anything wrong with them

post #6826146 I don't like the leg. Otherwise not too bad.
post #6869209 very simplistic/amateurish
post #6870693 very simplistic/amateurish
post #6878823 right girl weird face
post #6895755 approved
post #6914470 simplistic/amateurish
post #6914665 approved
post #6922220 simplistic/amateurish
post #6906382 already answered above
post #6924846 approved
post #6924898 approved

post #6603595 et al: it's just meh porn. nsfw art is harder to get approved, and this just isn't really great. Not terrible. But not very good either.

Comments in quoted section. While its not technically a barrier to approval, please work on your tagging. You should be adding 2x more tags on some of those.

@opsiedaisies said:

I'm pretty new to uploading so I was just wondering why 7 of my last 8 uploads were deleted.
post #6918311 very amateurish hands and breasts
post #6918336 amateurish overall. With regards to your appeal, resolution is irrelevant to approval (unless the image is really really tiny).
post #6918451 it's AI-assisted and therefore very unlikely to be approved. AI art is not allowed and "AI-assisted" often means AI-gen with 5 mins of touch up in photoshop
post #6918482 as above
post #6918555 terrible arms
post #6918601 fucked back
post #6918621 just meh, not great. especially the hands on the left.

Comments in quote

@hdk5 said:

Why am I drowning in deletions again? I don't like that.

I think these are pretty good, I had high hopes on them:
post #6920583 very very sketchy and rough
post #6920158 not that bad really, I could see it getting approved. But Doctor's face at the top sucks, Suzuran's face is pretty amateurish, and that arm foreshortening's off. Fingers too.
post #6921199 the drawn part by itself might pass. But it's mostly just a game screenshot which will turn people off.
post #6920057 fingers on that hand lol
post #6920589 very sketchy and rough
post #6919429 as I said above, I personally don't like explicit loli and won't likely approve it. I'm not the Approver to give feedback on it. This one in particular gives me AI vibes though
post #6916719 explicit furry is basically off topic, and is pretty much the exclusive territory of certain Contributers

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@War6t2 said:

I had the flu so completely missed this when it was recent but what's wrong with post #6902668?

Far too sketchy/rough.

@Mysticus said:

What's wrong with this?
post #6915390

Very amateur lines and shading on tits, face, everything.

@ITT9280 said:

I've not had an answer yet. Post had plenty of favourites, artist is new but I don't see an issue with that.

Favourites and upvote are completely irrelevant to approval. They measure horniness, not quality. There's tons of deleted art with lots of upvotes. Here, the ass is disproportionate to the body and where is her torso? Most big ass art requires a total neglect of anatomy that doesn't go well with our approvers.

CoreMack said:
That is simply not an artstyle that is popular here. Danbooru is still fundamentally an anime site, and it almost borders on off-topic. You can always post 2-3 pages of a comic to test the waters before committing, or join the Discord server and ask to see if any approvers like it enough to approve the whole thing.

It's appreciated. I had a feeling it was the artstyle and did ponder if it would clear. I decided to take the plunge anyway ahaha

I will keep the 2-3 pages thing in mind.

CoreMack said:

Favourites and upvote are completely irrelevant to approval. They measure horniness, not quality. There's tons of deleted art with lots of upvotes. Here, the ass is disproportionate to the body and where is her torso? Most big ass art requires a total neglect of anatomy that doesn't go well with our approvers.

It's not even "big ass art", it's nowhere near the like of the stuff phatsmash makes and they all get approved. There's also a lot of art that's approved with far worse anatomy. Also favourites and upvotes measure neither, they measure how many people like the image enough for them to give it an upvote. Also her torso is behind her ass, are you going to ask where her chest or feet are too?

ITT9280 said:

Also favourites and upvotes measure neither, they measure how many people like the image enough for them to give it an upvote.

That doesn’t contradict what CoreMack said, because the images that people like enough to give them an upvote are overwhelmingly lewd ones. If you check order:rank, which gives you the highest-scoring posts from the last 48 hours, you’ll notice that it’s basically all lewds.

CoreMack said:

... simplistic ... sketch ... loli ... furry ...

... exclusive territory of certain Contributers ...

I just don't understand. We have the resident futa-loli-furry-pokemon-pee-tentacle-sex-comic-sketch-greyscale Contributors (and some are even Approvers or above) here, who can post images from the aforementioned "exclusive territory", right? But how did they become them in the first place then? I want to be one too.

hdk5 said:

I just don't understand. We have the resident futa-loli-furry-pokemon-pee-tentacle-sex-comic-sketch-greyscale Contributors (and some are even Approvers or above) here, who can post images from the aforementioned "exclusive territory", right? But how did they become them in the first place then? I want to be one too.

Maybe they uploaded vanilla until they became contributors, played the long game.

CoreMack said:

post #6918311 very amateurish hands and breasts
post #6918336 amateurish overall. With regards to your appeal, resolution is irrelevant to approval (unless the image is really really tiny).
post #6918451 it's AI-assisted and therefore very unlikely to be approved. AI art is not allowed and "AI-assisted" often means AI-gen with 5 mins of touch up in photoshop
post #6918482 as above
post #6918555 terrible arms
post #6918601 fucked back
post #6918621 just meh, not great. especially the hands on the left.

Wow if this is how picky approvers are at approving images here, I'll just stick to gelbooru so I don't need to worry about upload slots. I do appreciate getting an actual response with feedback though.

Hello, I have a small question in regards to post #6921742, the deleted making-of of post #6920961 (which got approved within a day). While I do understand that not every post variant is going to make it through, I do find it kinda interesting that post #6921742, being a making-of, didn't make the cut and was wondering what exactly was wrong with it in comparison to its approved final version.

Edit: Nevermind, got approved and undeleted. Guess that's why it never hurts to ask about something every now and then!

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@opsiedaisies said:

Wow if this is how picky approvers are at approving images here, I'll just stick to gelbooru so I don't need to worry about upload slots. I do appreciate getting an actual response with feedback though.

That's fair, I guess. Danbooru has quality standards. Other sites don't. Many people come to Danbooru specifically for those standards, they're an important part of what makes the site what it is.

@hdk5 said:

I just don't understand. We have the resident futa-loli-furry-pokemon-pee-tentacle-sex-comic-sketch-greyscale Contributors (and some are even Approvers or above) here, who can post images from the aforementioned "exclusive territory", right? But how did they become them in the first place then? I want to be one too.

Becoming a Contributor means earning the trust of the admins that you have good taste and that you'll continue to upload art that 95% would pass the queue. Once you're Contributor, your posts are far less scrutinized, so you have some freedom to experiment with less common art styles and nicher fetishes. That's just how the site works. But promotions are still fundamentally premised on the expectation that you will continue to upload as you did pre-promotion. Contributors get flagged all the time when they fail to meet that expectation.

@Pastrano said:

post #6915882

I like all that artist's other posts, but that one is just not as good to me, for some reason. I'm not sure why exactly, maybe just a little bit too cartoony/simplistic? That artist is kinda pushing the boundaries of acceptable danbooru art styles to begin with. It would be worth an appeal.

@NPEE2003 said:

Whats wrong for this post? Or some post about male focus most are don't like
post #6915031

Most I've approved. Yes, a bit of male focus bias, amplified by explicit art bias on the third one. The one that's still deleted is due to a) annoyingly low resolution and b) edited photos just being a harder sell.

@QQWWU said:

I uploaded some parent posts successfully,
post #5751344

but their child posts failed.
post #5751354

Explicit art is simply harder to get approved, as the field of potential approvers shrinks when you exclude all the people who dislike whichever fetish is portrayed. Take art that's kinda meh to begin with, add a somewhat lazily drawn penis and a shirt that defies the laws of physics, and you get a disapproved child with an approved parent.

@NPEE2003 said:

How bad is this?
post #6900342
post #6900343

Ruined by the hands.

@gzb said:

post #6903593
post #6903594

Why are they deleted? I think they are pretty high quality, please elaborate.

Difficult-to-parse tangled mass of limbs and muscle in the top left doesn't help. Hips in the top right seem a bit too wide to my eyes. Explicit art is harder to get approved since you exclude all the people who dislike whichever fetish is portrayed. It's not terrible, may be worth an appeal.

@PumpkinRow said:

post #6839685
It was only deleted once, but I'm confused as to why it was deleted since it's a really good piece, as far as I can tell.

Rather amateur all around. Explicit art is harder to get approved since you exclude all the people who dislike whichever fetish is portrayed. Rape and ugly bastards aren't super popular amongst our approvers. Add to that some pretty half-assed penises and you get a deletion.

@KuroDahlia18 said:

Guys, can someone help me out please? All my drawings keep gettint removed and i dont know why, ther´s nothing wrong with them:

If no one else has told you this already, Danbooru is fundamentally for archiving of other people's art, not posting what you've drawn yourself. Self-Uploads aren't prohibited, but they're discouraged simply because we have strict quality standards and artists often don't take this well. I'd recommend sticking to Twitter or DeviantArt for posting your own work.

@QQWWU said:

I don't understand what's wrong
post #6898977
post #6899396

And this post #6896265 belongs to post #6896098‘s half-length version, I think it can also be an independent beautiful work of art

First one: I don't like, in particular, the arms and hands on the left side, and it's overall on the amateurish side. Second one: approved, explicit sex is usually a bit harder to get approved. Third one: someone else approved it, but you should avoid posting cropped versions of images that are already up. They'll usually be deleted.

@MF144 said:

Hello, why weren't these approved?

post #6877942
post #6877960
post #6878942
post #6878013
post #6877994

I undeleted the first one. 2 and 3 are just a bit too amateurish and 2's not an art style that's very popular here. 4 has some weird stuff going on with fingers and kneecaps that's turning me off. The last one may be worth appealing.

@HammyHydra said:

no idea why this wasn't approved, please kindly explain
post #6880761

Far too amateurish, the stool is meh, the arm is really bad, the face is meh. Huge ass focus also isn't very popular amongst our approvers as it usually involves total disregard for anatomy.

@minnazzo said:

https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/6889492
https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/6889603 not terrible, but the balloon ass doesn't really mesh well with the rest of the drawing and her face is uncanny valley to me
https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/6886664 niche fetishes like extreme prolapse are less likely to get approved. Plus it's kinda sketchy.
https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/6889541 lower quality duplicate of an existing post.
https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/6876138 weirdly disappearing girl torso, low-effort male body, nips are kinda weird, explicit loli has less approvers who'll take it
https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/6889528 strange breasts, overly sketchy, and I know that Sensei drawing is funny but really??

First one is approved, since it was actually higher resolution than what it had been parented to. We keep higher quality image as the "parent" and lower quality as the "child." Since yours was incorrectly set as the child it was probably ignored as being a lower res duplicate, which it wasn't. Other comments in quoted section.

@War6t2 said:

Anime and high quality but monochrome and less explicit than most sex on here, what's wrong with this?

post #6892900

It's pretty nice, actually, many parts of it are quite well done, but just too sketchy in the other places and specifically his hands on her ass are putting me off and tipping the scale away from approval.

@argentb said:

Thoughts on post #6877760 ?

It's a bit atypical for the site, admittedly, but a nice drawing of the good detective.

I genuinely like this and think it's good quality art, but it's a bit off topic for danbooru. If you appeal it at the right time and catch me in a sympathetic mood, maybe.

@denliner27 said:

What is wrong with post #6888520 ? (it's an official promotional art)

I've approved it. Approvers often instinctively skip anything with a weird source and no artist, which leads to some good official art being missed. I recommend appealing any good quality art that gets deleted, and specifically mentioning that it's official and from an official source in the reason.

CoreMack said:

@opsiedaisies said:

Wow if this is how picky approvers are at approving images here, I'll just stick to gelbooru so I don't need to worry about upload slots. I do appreciate getting an actual response with feedback though.

Many people come to Danbooru specifically for those standards, they're an important part of what makes the site what it is.

That's only partially true, Danbooru is most popular booru site that's why people come here. Heck I even thought they all run on the same database when I first discovered them. Also Gel doesn't allow video upload until you've amassed a certain amount of approval. About the picky approvers, I can definitely see that, there's also plenty of bias and mood when it comes to post getting approved but I've learned to deal with it since there's really nothing I can do.

CoreMack said: explicit furry is basically off topic, and is pretty much the exclusive territory of certain Contributers

It's true that furry is:nsfw is 90% unres uploaders, but can we at least just once explain this issue properly when it gets asked?

Explicit furry is not "basically off topic." It's "borderline" content, which is not the same thing but can mean a couple of things. In this case, all that means is that it's not as likely to be approved, because it's an extremely divisive genre of content that doesn't appeal to the majority of people. It's not against the rules, and approvers aren't encouraged to approve it less or something. You're just always going to be taking a risk uploading furry stuff, much more so if it's nsfw. It's safer to upload more broadly appealing content until you get unres yourself and can upload more niche content (of acceptable quality) as you please.