I see the bar for moderators has lowered over the years.

Unbreakable said:
the reversion was the right thing to do and Gelbooru works as a source just like Yandere does.

I would only agree with that if a script was used to repost the image (like sankaku does when the system reposts from gel/dan).

But whatever, it seems the community has changed enough that it's not nitpicking stuff like that anymore.

Okay this is really, really overblown. As a principle, yes, if it was posted to Patreon, Patreon should be the image source not a third-party booru. On the other hand people don't have clairvoyance. You can tag the source as patreon_reward and post the source if you know it.

But to address what NNM said, the actual source something was posted from should be used. Errantly changing the source to Pixiv is bad the the idea source should be the actual internal page on Patreon. Not achieving this, the date of the reward and Pareon page would be good but not necessarily Gelbo unless literally nothing is known about the image.

View it from the perspective of a user. From most desirable to least, what do I want the source to point back to?

• The original source, most likely Patreon in this case, but maybe for whatever reason it's inconvenient to link back to it. At a minimum someone should note it in a comment.
• I would argue the Pixiv source is the second most useful, because it's a direct link to the artist and you can explore the rest of their catalog from there. It's true it isn't the same image, but...
• Gelbooru just adds a layer of indirection. But it's still possible to find the artist's other URLs, and in some ways this may even be advantageous in the case that they might just end up deleting their Pixiv account.

In the end, I don't think there's a clear good solution. I think as long as all the information is available somewhere it's fine. If you click on the Pixiv link and see that it's different, you can investigate and find the Gelbooru link. If you click on the Gelbooru link and think it's a dead end, you can investigate and find the PIxiv link.

Regarding the quality of moderatorship, if you have a problem with someone please feel free to bring it up with me or any of the other admins.