prawncrawl said:
so would it be better to just make another account where i pretend to not be myself?
No, because they will find out, your posts will still be tagged with self-upload, and you may even get banned from trying to circumnavigate the rules.
logic doesn't really make sense...the image is the image, who cares who uploads it
That is our current policy, but we used to heavily discourage self-uploads because many artists overestimate their abilities and are more likely to post art that does not meet quality standards. Some approvers may disagree with the site softening its stance against self-uploads and may have the tag blacklisted. That makes it harder for good self-uploads to get through, but we can't force approvers to approve things they don't want to.