Freshblink said:
You can get it in 100 hours or so of effort.
Less if you have a 0% deletion ratio for a few hundred good initial posts.
At first I thought this was a bit ridiculous, but after a while I realized its kind of like a game, then it became fun.
I've said this repeatedly in the thread. I don't have the free time these days to provide free labour so maybe I can get a status to make the API usable. All I've got to offer is money. I would not mind forking over well above the asking price for a gold or platinum account, paying through bitcoin cash, or paying a recurring subscription for status.
Instead I'm using Gelbooru's API and sent some money their way. Their API and the curation is appreciably worst but I can work it to do what I want.
If no change is expected, please close the thread and tell people in https://danbooru.donmai.us/upgrade that the only ways to get status is either through contributions or raffles. The last 2 pages of this thread feel like Redditor power users piling on top of each other to tell you that yes, contributing is so fun, upvotes on the left.