And Brother I Hurt People 
@Exedrus
I really don’t think you know who those low-res arts are coming from, really. When I reupload, a HUGE amount (if not all) of what I’m reuploading tends to come exactly from undiscovered artists. You’ll find that the exact opposite is true with big name artists (especially those who draw porn, but it goes for others as well) - it is impossible to find anything underuploaded with their name on it. The reasoning is pretty simple. Major uplaoders on this site tend to nab those types of images very quickly (when’s the longest an Atryl image has stayed off of this site? Sometimes he can’t even upload them himself fast enough), and major uploaders actually a) know what they’re looking for and b) more importantly, know how to upload. Meaning that the image will never be undersized. Seeing that SlayerBVC has uploaded an image is usually my cue to click the “x” button and move on.
With a lesser known artist, though, it’s easier for their work to fly under the radar. These pieces are nabbed by people who’ve uploaded about two pieces of art to this site in their life, or anons, who I’ve discovered during this time are usually terrible uploaders. These works, the bulk of my reuploading, tend to not have scores that even break 40. You seem to be under the assumption that I only go for glitzy, 200 score images. Not true.
The only two exceptions to this is when an artist’s work has been around for ages - think Beavernator - or art that was uploaded around the mass exodus from Ponibooru. In the former, the artist’s earlier works, while usually good, weren’t popular yet, so it’s natural that it was “newbs” who snapped up his work. You’ll usually notice that about two pages into their earliest work, the image res suddenly starts becoming correct. In the latter, I can only imagine that there was a scramble, trying to salvage as much Ponibooru as was possible. It stands to reason that people new to the site wouldn’t know how to upload at full res - Deviant Art really makes it obnoxious.
Do I sometimes get lucky and find an undersized, 300+ vote image? Yes. Does it happen often? Nope. It’s also worth mentioning that while I upload a lot, I try not to upload the same gallery/thing constantly, as to not clog up the main page. I’ll never upload an entire gallery at once. I want people to actually enjoy the art, not be pissed that the entire front page is Rarity vectors.
TL;DR, reuploading is mainly to bring exposure to works that have very much so been ignored because they tend to be from minor artists or work by major artists that wasn’t appreciated very much because it was drawn when they were a n00b.
Now if you’ll excuse me, the wallpaper tag is calling me.
EDIT) Forgot to mention one crucial thing, especially to this thread. Silly me.
I’ve noticed that even images that I’ve reuploaded with very few votes upon their original upload can still squeeze their way into the top scoring very easily (especially if it’s porn, ha). I don’t really have a solid reason for this; my closest guess is that the original could be something that appeals to a lot of people but it was uploaded at a very bad time, like when someone was posting all one hundred pages of a porn comic (god, I hate it when people do this).
I really don’t think you know who those low-res arts are coming from, really. When I reupload, a HUGE amount (if not all) of what I’m reuploading tends to come exactly from undiscovered artists. You’ll find that the exact opposite is true with big name artists (especially those who draw porn, but it goes for others as well) - it is impossible to find anything underuploaded with their name on it. The reasoning is pretty simple. Major uplaoders on this site tend to nab those types of images very quickly (when’s the longest an Atryl image has stayed off of this site? Sometimes he can’t even upload them himself fast enough), and major uploaders actually a) know what they’re looking for and b) more importantly, know how to upload. Meaning that the image will never be undersized. Seeing that SlayerBVC has uploaded an image is usually my cue to click the “x” button and move on.
With a lesser known artist, though, it’s easier for their work to fly under the radar. These pieces are nabbed by people who’ve uploaded about two pieces of art to this site in their life, or anons, who I’ve discovered during this time are usually terrible uploaders. These works, the bulk of my reuploading, tend to not have scores that even break 40. You seem to be under the assumption that I only go for glitzy, 200 score images. Not true.
The only two exceptions to this is when an artist’s work has been around for ages - think Beavernator - or art that was uploaded around the mass exodus from Ponibooru. In the former, the artist’s earlier works, while usually good, weren’t popular yet, so it’s natural that it was “newbs” who snapped up his work. You’ll usually notice that about two pages into their earliest work, the image res suddenly starts becoming correct. In the latter, I can only imagine that there was a scramble, trying to salvage as much Ponibooru as was possible. It stands to reason that people new to the site wouldn’t know how to upload at full res - Deviant Art really makes it obnoxious.
Do I sometimes get lucky and find an undersized, 300+ vote image? Yes. Does it happen often? Nope. It’s also worth mentioning that while I upload a lot, I try not to upload the same gallery/thing constantly, as to not clog up the main page. I’ll never upload an entire gallery at once. I want people to actually enjoy the art, not be pissed that the entire front page is Rarity vectors.
TL;DR, reuploading is mainly to bring exposure to works that have very much so been ignored because they tend to be from minor artists or work by major artists that wasn’t appreciated very much because it was drawn when they were a n00b.
Now if you’ll excuse me, the wallpaper tag is calling me.
EDIT) Forgot to mention one crucial thing, especially to this thread. Silly me.
I’ve noticed that even images that I’ve reuploaded with very few votes upon their original upload can still squeeze their way into the top scoring very easily (especially if it’s porn, ha). I don’t really have a solid reason for this; my closest guess is that the original could be something that appeals to a lot of people but it was uploaded at a very bad time, like when someone was posting all one hundred pages of a porn comic (god, I hate it when people do this).
