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Post Ban Request Thread

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Saladofstones said:

Updated the title to be more accurate and reflective of its intent, so people looking at the thread title can instantly tell what it is for.

Calling these "artist bans" isn't accurate. An artist ban is when the artist entry is banned, which is something only the artist themself may request, and they should do that via email, not posting in this thread (Albert probably won't see it if they post on the forum).

This thread is for requesting that individual posts be banned when the post is from an artist which has already requested their work be banned in the past. These are post bans, so the original title was more accurate.

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Toks said:

Calling these "artist bans" isn't accurate. An artist ban is when the artist entry is banned, which is something only the artist themself may request, and they should do that via email, not posting in this thread (Albert probably won't see it if they post on the forum).

This thread is for requesting that individual posts be banned when the post is from an artist which has already requested their work be banned in the past. These are post bans, so the original title was more accurate.

I think post ban is still too vague, just anything that indicates that its for banned artist. The first comment also does a poor job revealing what the purpose of the thread is.

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Let's not strawman "someone somewhere at some time might be confused by this thread" isn't a valid reason, if a bunch of people had posted the incorrect thing in this thread I might see the merit in attempting to rewrite the title/op but as this hasn't happened they're currently fine as-is.

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Its not a strawman.

I think its an unintuitive title and could be improved without any issues. Given that many of the first posts didn't understand what was meant or why it was needed, I think having the information front and center is best

I didn't intend to step on any toes, so I apologize.

I just edited the first post to be a bit more specific on what it is that is being requested and why.

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I posted the thread within a week of the feature being created with virtually no documentation so it's only fair that people hadn't known what it was at the time. By now it's fairly unlikely many users who would flag posts for being a banned artist would not know about this feature (even previously it was almost entirely builder+ who were flagging them.)

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Log said:

I posted the thread within a week of the feature being created with virtually no documentation so it's only fair that people hadn't known what it was at the time. By now it's fairly unlikely many users who would flag posts for being a banned artist would not know about this feature (even previously it was almost entirely builder+ who were flagging them.)

Actually, the feature had already existed for about a year at the time that you made this topic... but back then it had never been mentioned except for a single relatively obscure post by Albert, which would explain why so few people knew about it.

This sticky post as well as the line I added to the flag page relatively recently should make it pretty clear now, yes.

Saladofstones said:

Couldn't anyone just do a banned_artist -status:banned search and just apply the status that way? It seems more efficient.

There are posts not under that search that should be banned as well. Like when an artist requests just one image be banned, they won't get the banned_artist tag. A couple posts like that were mentioned in topic #10658.

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Saladofstones said:

Went ahead and removed them, we are nothing if not an enabler of further redistribution, so it would fit his wishes.

No, you did not ban those posts. You just created a "status:banned" tag. In order to ban them you need to click "Ban" in the sidebar of the post.

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