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>>/3770/ > erm, guys, I think you should see this and judge for yourselves... Yeah, I've been a little outta the loop. So it is starting to happen on a small scale annd causing a tiny bit of drama already. > also, screencapping a few things that are more like gossip and drama but worth to talk about. I'd say it is. Let's dive in. Okay, so the mods were suddenly against hosting Filly Funtasia images when the series finally arose from the grave despite tolerating them for awhile. Them being in limbo or ignored/not noticed is completely understandable in its own. There is always going to be a few violations and things that never draw the mods attention with a site with hundreds of thousands of images to moderate (at least if they have never commented on their presence before, which I haven't checked for yet.) Though here is what honestly rubs me the wrong way: https://derpibooru.org/forums/uppers/topics/what-is-acceptable-non-mlp-upload https://archive.fo/CAOcJ https://derpibooru.org/1707355 https://derpibooru.org/1707354 Take a look at this thread here regarding content purely related to The Last Unicorn. Two webms, they were both take down but allowed to be reuploaded shortly after consultation with the mods. The Smiling Pony > I’m in favour of allowing stuff that looks fairly MLP-like or is based on MLP. LightningBolt > I think it’s fine, personally. I’d say a good frame of reference would be if said cartoon (or toy) horse is cartoony and colorful or magical, and came out after 1982, it’s probably at least tangentally riding off MLP’s success or target audience. ArmadilloEater > I’d say the Ico cartoon is obviously inspired by MLP, therefore loosely mlp related enough in my books. Filly Funtasia clearly meets the standards and logic of the mods then. Though there was more mods involved in the Filly Funtasia decision, its a different administrative logic. I mean compare this what Smile said just a few months ago compared to now when faced with a very similar choice. https://derpibooru.org/forums/meta/topics/filly-funtasia-images-pony-related-or-not https://archive.fo/dTPu2 https://derpibooru.org/meta/filly-funtasia-images-pony-related-or-not/2 https://archive.fo/0opKm > Filly Funtasia is a blatant knock-off by a really skeezy company and a good portion of the images I’ve seen (not just here) have been to troll/mock the fandom. > I’m in favour of allowing stuff that looks fairly MLP-like or is based on MLP. And it's only a few months ago. Wouldn't being in favor of anything that looks MLP entail all different kinds of rip offs? There is a clear difference in logic here and its only been a few months. It does feel like the mods decided they didn't like Filly Funtasia or where scared of it flooding the site but it feels like they just through out various excuses. I can actually understand the concern of not knowing the characters and being uncertain, but you could just let it go with the flow, if it does explode then you can reconsider it, but if it becomes big enough to be a problem you could also probably find mods for it too. Or kick'em out to form there own site. Now just seems too soon and in contrast to existing policy. I mean they were saying "It make the site unmoderatable!" and "lack of interest on the users to host it" both contradict each other. And if the whole "it's a knockoff, its a sleezy company!" is an excuse to suddenly cut it out now when it was there for years. Before I fully jump to conclusions I'd have to find what, if anything, the mods have said before on Filly Funtaisa. They could have expressed ambivalence before. But as of right now, count me in the skeptical camp.