Featured Image

We’d like to have a system for the featured image where one recent (<1 week) image is featured for 3 days, then an older image (not everyone’s been in the fandom since S1 or scanned through the whole site) for another 3 days, and repeat. Preferably these are images that either somehow slipped by unnoticed or are absurdly remarkable.
 
So here’s where you can call attention to images
 
They must be SFW (Safe, Suggestive or Semi-grimdark) and Preferably either somehow slipped by unnoticed or are absurdly remarkable. Keep in mind that we already have the 4 “3 day top scoring” images “featured” as well, so it doesn’t make much sense to nominate something that’s comfortably sat there already (unless it’s bloody amazing). Keep in mind that an image might have a low score here (especially older pics) but have over 4000 faves on deviantArt.
 
And needless to say bickering in this thread about what gets featured and what doesn’t or whatever else.
 
Note: please link to pictures using >>######t. Yes the post preview doesn’t work with that but it will work when you actually click Post.

List of images already featured can generally be found with this tag.
 
Or in this thread.

Less than 1 week:  
>>565487 (Featured)
 
More than 1 week but within 1 month:
 

 

 

 
Way back (and seriously needs more upvotes);
 
>>23729 (Featured)
 

Given there weren’t any new suggestions, twixie happened.

@The Smiling Pony  
WHAT A SHOCKER

@The Smiling Pony  

@The Smiling Pony  
I thought you said alternating between less than 1 week and an older pic. Was my 2 way back pics not good enough?

If only we had the list of Featured Images from Old Ponibooru. Then we would be able to add them along with Derpibooru’s Featured Image.

@Grieffon  
I was heading to bed and no one had suggested anything new, so I chose a recent safe high scoring image as I didn’t want to spend more time hunting through old images or taking two suggestions from the same person.
 
Plus it being blatant TSP bait served its purpose of making people look for this thread. Maybe by the 14-15th there are a few more people suggesting images.

Some random old ones:  
 
EDIT: welp one of them has (at the time of writing) a score of 53. That’s quite high for my standards O.o

@The Smiling Pony  
So… any chance for those 2 to get picked?

@Grieffon  
NEVER
 
By which I mean I dunno, site has a lot of images =/
 
I’ll bug another mod into choosing what to feature on the next go.

Some from way back on derpi  
>>3980
 
>>8522
 
>>8233
 
>>8255
 
>>6688
 
>>6689
 
>>6690
 
>>6698
 
>>182666 (deleted)
 
>>231145
 
>>257986 (deleted)
 
>>6694
 
>>6699
 
>>6498
 
>>4612
 
>>4063 (deleted)
 
>>3709 (deleted)
 
>>3828
 
>>308
 
>>22420
 
>>22525
 
>>21147
 
>>14061
 
>>12245
 
>>10938
 
Blows my mind how this stuff goes unnoticed.
 
More recent stuff.
 
>>548739
 
If derpi had video support this would be on the list too.  
>>573622  
Beautiful animation.
 
@Grieffon  
That Vinyl Scratch deserves to be noticed, it was also the very first pony pic I used as a screen saver.

Is it bad to suggest own artwork? Because the amount of nonpopular background ponies is too damn low.

 
 
>>60949t (deleted)  
 
>>4717 (Has been featured)
 
 
>>572234 (Has been featured)

What about cosplay?
 
>>75581p (merged)

Man, what’s with the constant suggesting of already high-scoring images (especially the way back ones)? I think there even was some already +350 ponykillerx pic in there somewhere.
 
@bluemeganium  
Don’t see why not. Though it’s kinda flipsided I think. If every artist started suggesting his or her own pics only, while it would be a great way to feature new/upcoming/relatively unknown artists, it shouldn’t get to the point where this thread consists of nothing but “Pick me next! Pick me!” if you catch my drift. I guess trying is okay though?  
^{It’d also better be really good if it has to compete with waifu-grade really cute princess twilights etc.}
 
@Grieffon  
I… don’t know. If there’s one single thing that everyone on here has (or should!) have in common, then it’s definitely ponies. Anthro, humanized, cosplay and irl humans, even equestria girls; they’re all, well, still very pony-related, but at the same time, they’re also not ponies. Like, there might be a few users that actively dislike the pony that happens to be featured at any point in time, but there might be (and I’m pretty sure there is) a much larger part of the userbase that passively dislikes (ie, hide) things other than pony.
 
I should add that I’m totally biased in this, since I hide anthro, humanized, irl human, etc on my alt account. I’m also not going to promise that if a cosplay like the one you gave as an example got featured I won’t downvote it, because I know I will. There’s a reason there’s no irl human cosplay in my favourites

@barbeque  
Yeah, I don’t like cosplay either, but that one is particularly great.
 

 
The two last ones in my first post, one has less than 100 and the other less than 50. PICK THEM! PICK THEM!
 
Please?
 

 
(Sorry, those two are among my all-time favorite, it’s such a shame that not many knows swaetshrit)

Remember this image from Ponibooru?  
 
I think I remember it as the 100K post on that site. I wonder if this image was already posted on this site.

It is now.
 

@The Smiling Pony  
Ah, thanks.
 
Kind of off topic.  
I recall it was already posted on this site a long time ago. Have images been disappearing from this site, even though there is no DNP, rule violation, or take down requests involved?

@SeraphimDawn  
That image was never posted, and no.

>>4346t (merged)  
 
 
 

I nominate these 3
 

 
>>577125 (merged)
 
 
>>577109 (merged)  
 
>>577142

Some for the recent side, all < 1 week
 
>>576649
 
>>577142
 
>>572518 (merged)
 
>>572560
 
>>572991
 
>>573159
 
>>574000
 
>>574041
 
>>574942
 
>>575156
 
>>575350
 
>>575406 (merged)
 
>>575774
 
>>576185
 
>>576381
 
>>576884
 
>>576894
 
>>576981
 
>>576980
 
>>577100
 
>>577109 (merged)
 
@barbeque  
I don’t think the 350+ one was 350+ when I linked it, maybe a dupe got merged.  
As for the rest I personally don’t think they are that high scoring in comparison with newer stuff.