Were paid rewards always forbidden on Gelbooru? And is it a good thing?Posted on: 01/17/21 05:47AM
This was gonna be a reply to this other forum thread:
gelbooru.com/index.php?page=forum&s=view&id=4522 until I realized it was locked lol
This must be a new rule, right?... One of the main uses of this site afaict is to see Patreon rewards, it's (one of) the only way you can actually see them before becoming a Patreon and seeing which one's you'd rather support. It's also how I discover like 80% of said artists & their other profiles since all the other sites that artists use are useless for browsing specific types of content and just rely on social feeds & algorithms. It's legit a better advertiser than most other sources imo (I did become a Patron for several artists for various periods of time thanks to Gelbooru)
Also, many very popular artists have had their reward content on here for years, like hundreds of images consistently getting good ratings, but all of a sudden they're all gone. I thought it was definitely allowed. Stand out names for me are Sakimichan, Dandon fuga and Sciamano240 among others
I find the paywalls lame since early on Patreon was more "Support me so I can create more content like WIP processes, tutorials & art polls" but is now mostly "You don't deserve to see my art unless you pay me", everything else is nothing but a preview lol, but alas I guess this ain't the place for that rant
Now, I'm vehemently against art theft - like posting other people's art without any effort in crediting/sourcing - but I find boorus great coz the tagging system is the superior method for browsing art and most pictures (that I see) are sourced, and it's better than all the activity I see on various community threads & discord servers where all people do is upload untitled unsourced unmarked pics and they don't know the source or care. When they do ask for sauce, usually the easiest thing for me is to come to Gelbooru & search relevant tags
Finally, I wanna ask, is this rule necessary for Gelbooru to operate properly or is it just their opinion that it should be that way? And if the rule is against paid content, does that not include all game CG and the like?
I'm sorry if this thread is not welcome
Edit: Btw, were the paid_rewards tags made as bait so you could find and remove all those posts in one fell swoop?