@Dogman15
tl;dr: I’m trying to say, gentle-like, that you should not put this much effort into avoiding an accidental duplicate upload. Yes our reverse image search is flawed, but it’s helpful at least, and using it at all is better than 95% of our users already.
nle;wtr: It’s still our best tool for “has this been uploaded” if the artist tag or some other highly definitive tag is not apparent. Trying to search for a specific image by generic or even middling tags alone is a crapshoot, especially when you’re trying to establish if it is not uploaded. Even if everything was perfectly tagged… which it isn’t.
The bottom line is, if you try the reverse search (higher cut-off for lineart/monochrome/sketch etc. stuff to reduce the sheer masses of images that otherwise match because the logic treats identical swaths of bg the same way regardless of whether it’s detailed and varied or 100% uncolour or transparent pixels because of course it does arghhhh) and it doesn’t find the image, just upload the image, tag it decently, and let the site handle it.
What actually generates workload onto the duplicate queue is the users that don’t even think of using the reverse search and go on uploading binges because they found an artist they like on DA or whatever and just assumed their gorgeous super popular art would not already be postd on here at best available resolution.