Ask the mods anything

@Background Pony #3F8A
None that come to mind…

If you eat a cucumber, does it turn into a pickle?

@Badheart
If you drink enough vinegar with it … maybe?

What normally happens though is that it turns into poo.

@Badheart
The generic you? No.
Me specifically? Yes, but [REDACTED]

@saby
/me suspects vinegar is involved …

@Ciaran
Only after your small intestine extracts all of the nutrients it can out of the cucumber. Then the large intestine tries to suck up excess moisture.

There may be aspects of this I’m not familiar with. Most of what I know about that comes from The Magic School Bus.

If urgent care statistics are anything to go by, swallowing a cucumber whole is actually a leading cause of rectally lodged pickle, second only to backwards falls suffered during pantsless cooking.

Can I ask why the 18+ R34 filter on this site doesn’t spoiler Semi-Grimdark?

@Andyxdr
Could be an ancient oversight, or an obscure decision from time immemorial.

@saby
Okay. Just wondering.

Is there a way to reupload and replace images with higher quality version of the previous images.

@nightscream
Sure. On the old image, click the “Report” button and select the drop-down that says “General updating/merging.” It will request the number ID of the newer version you’d like to replace the older image with; enter the number ID of the new image in that open type box and provide a simple reason for updating, then click the submission button. :)

How did Duke Nukem smoke all those cigars without crapping his pants?

@𝕭𝖆𝖉𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖙
Well, the trick is to be a user, not an abuser. If you’re smoking enough cigars that you’re crapping your pants, maybe consider slowing down with a pipe, instead.

Or, hook yourself up with some Drew Estate Acid Blondies (insert the theme song from The Good, The Bad, and THe Ugly here).

They’re a fine smoke that will never leave you scrambling for clean underwear.

@🂾𝕃𝕚𝕟𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕟𝔹𝕣𝕖𝕨𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝔽𝕒𝕟🂽
It didn’t work

There’s so many spambots on the site. Are they written specially to target derpibooru, or they’re somewhat universal, or it’s even real people posting spam?

@Modera
A little from column A, a little from column B.

Lots of them are ads for essay services for school, ads for online games, things like that. So they seem to be people sitting at computers entering random responses to posts, with with bogus links in them, trying to fool people into clicking them.

@Ciaran
It’s weird how it’s still actual job for posting spam on relatively small thematic sites in 2023, when most online activity is going in social media.
They sometimes even more creative, few years ago on some forum that allowed clickable image links I’ve seen person who was quoting random posts with images and inserted their spam links into quotes as images that already was in there, then writing some simple reply and posting that, and this wasn’t spotted for something around two years.

@Modera
Well, people still are paid to be goldfarmers in WoW, so … I guess if there’s a market for it, capitalism finds a way to make profit off of it.

Yeah, we get a lot of that too. Some of them appear to arrive here, leave several comments that really show they’re fans of the show, then they get busy spamming escort services in Thailand.

It’s possible that some of it is to “appear to be a normal user”, assuming that we have some sort of AI watching for bots. But, I also think that some of them are genuine fans of the show and they just keep coming here because they get paid to spam on a site they actually want to be on.

@nightscream
That’s weird it usually does :o

Did you click this?

That is where you’d put the information I mentioned previously.

@Ciaran
Are some of those spam links hidden under fanservice?

I mean, for example, kinda like this link name and its actual link content:

Notice while the text is pony related, what it links to has nothing to do with MLP. Kinda like that?

@🂾𝕃𝕚𝕟𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕟𝔹𝕣𝕖𝕨𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝔽𝕒𝕟🂽
Yes. Exactly like that. Except the link is usually to a phishing or malware site.