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It’s not worth getting the death-threats over it (I suppose). [Those That Report] must have mastered the art of Detachment. They actively avoid the Cycle of Suffering, and do what they gotta do to advance their goal. There really is no point to argumentation when you’re really only just exposing yourself to abuse and stress. They know this.
 
And really. They know they won’t be changing any minds, any way.
 
Which is strange, because there shouldn’t be anything TOO controversial in removing Brigading-Invasion Content. I suppose the real bad part is that they removed innocent art as well. But that’s the strength in the message—broad-reaching and final. The mods pulled the nuclear-button to deliver an absolute warning upon our woe-begone’d brigadiers, to stop. And so-far succeeded.
 
Our forlorn brigadiers now know that Derpibooru is a pozzed safe-space, and ceased activities. Best-case scenario, the mods will relax the rules once the brigadiers have disbanded in their completeness. It’s just a matter of waiting.

I would at least like a better explanation for everything, or at least a face-to-face encounter with those reporting the pictures.

Well. This entire thing wouldn’t have got as bad as it did, if it wasn’t for the brigading. That’s for sure.

Buddhist Principle Number 1—Impermanence. Everything decays and eventually dies. Sticking with the old means the old dies of a heart attack, and you’re left alone. Eventually. That’s how it’s always is.
 
Buddhist Principle Number 2—Suffering. Life is suffering. Good memories inevitably devolve into painful reminders of that which is lost or changed forever. Hope is the first step in the road to disappointment.
 
Buddhist Principle Number 3—No such thing as the “Self”. Nothing is divided; everything is together. From the moment someone stabbed you in the back, that knife and the injury and evil intent has become perpetually engraved in your body, and your sense of Self. The Individual that is you, is nothing more than the end-result of the lives lived around you and situations outside of your control.
 
The previous 3 principles is what they call “The Cycle of Suffering” attached to the past, and hurt yourself in trying to preserve what cannot (and perhaps should not) be preserved, intrinsically. The only way to exit this Cycle of Suffering is via:
 
Buddhist Principle Number 4—Emptiness equals Peace. The only way to avoid suffering, is to empty your mind of attachment and accept that everything you love will eventually decay, and die. And the only way to regain your peace is to let go, and free your mind from desire or attachment. This is what true peace means.
 
This is going to sound crazy, but…
 
Giving up is usually the best course of action in the face of adversity. Because adversity engenders MORE and STRONGER adversity as a reaction. It is a never-ending cycle in which long-past glories transform into present sufferings. The best way to win, always, is to not play at all.

@Background Pony #656D
 
Thankfully, my favorites just went from 1200 to 1100, give or take. Seems like the removals didn’t affect my side of the aisle.

@Wiimeiser  
There are 1451 DNPs right now. 991 is the first marked 2 months ago. So about 32% of all DNPs happened in the past two months.

Anyone got statistics on what % of DNP requests were made in the last two months?

@Background Pony #4951  
An enourmous amount of art is gone now. My faves went from 1200 to 600 over a couple weeks.

@Background Pony #4951  
Yea but you’re a bit late, it’s been going on for three months.

Ohhh, I’ve been wondering why the art dried up lately. So mods used nazi imagery as an excuse to go full nazi on censorship? nice irony. hope it was worth ruining your site.

@Sensual Spaghetti  
Hmm, that is odd as well, I think the Flutterbuse one might’ve been a mixup of rule number. We had issues with not clearly communicating rule numbers that have since been resolved. The mlp-tan one I think is the wrong description of which part of the rule (most likely deleted cause no apparent pony relation with them being humans), but regardless, it’s rather tenuous.  
The “Gas Earth ponies, make Aryanne proud” one I think for sure is Rule 0 (and 3), by the way.

@Officer Hotpants  
Lol I don’t think they’ll be able to do much besides mildly annoy them.

@Background Pony #26AB  
I hear they’re planning a massive operation at the beaches of /MLP/.

@Princess Luna  
That’s fair. I think there’s a few other images I already mentioned that would meet that requirement, but if there’s some stuff temporarily removed during the commotion that’s respectable. I think there’s also some other images that were rule 3’d by accident and should be re-looked at eventually.
 
https://derpibooru.org/images/190790 (Seems to be an original piece by the artist, there isn’t another version on this site. Might just get rule 0’d instead, but I’d argue abusing fluttershy isn’t a good way to promote genocide)  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/649178 (Seems to have the same amount of effort as most caption memes. Again, might be rule 0 but I think an earth pony saying to gas earth ponies is satire of nazis)  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/2025477 (More seemingly original art)  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/1578812 (Deleted for obligatory pony even though it’s an original image of mlp-tan)  

@Sensual Spaghetti  
The main question is whether something looks simply “pasted in”. On the first image, we can see shading on the pony that integrates her into the picture, which I think puts it over the line of not being eligible for Rule 3, quite different from the Trixie image.  
The Sunset image’s deletion is concerning, as it seems clear that there’s an artistic quality to it. That one will have to be brought up in the upcoming consistency pass.

@Princess Luna
 
Sorry to keep bothering you, but is there some way we could get a more clear explanation of the thought process staff go though when deciding if something is pony related?  
I still don’t understand would make staff think these are these pony related and allowed (I would hope)
 
 

 
while these are rule 3
 
https://derpibooru.org/images/495539  
 
https://derpibooru.org/images/750908  

 
It really seems like the Nazi element is whats getting these removed (only davca’s Nazi images are being removed for rule 3, both uniform edits are rough around the edges like most such edits are) and if so, then the wording of rule 3 isn’t very clear.

@Sensual Spaghetti  
I’ll have to check on those 2, whether we missed them. I think the first one is fine, though.  
As for “Nazbol”, I mean that there were two versions of an image, one with text and framing, and the latter was kept up, which seems like a mistake (adding more non-pony garbage shouldn’t make it less Rule 3). As well, there are two (the oldest images currently up under the tag) that I would say are blatantly Rule 3 and were probably missed.

@Princess Luna  
Thanks for the info, but the fact that all nazi images were manually reviewed just raises more questions about inconsistencies.
 
Some soldier/uniform edits were kept like  
 
while others were somehow considered not pony related.
 
Same goes for real life edits which have a small few remaining  

 
I don’t think I’ve heard anyone asking that artists like davca be purged or editing on clothing of villians from outside the mlp universe be banned. If this style art isn’t considered hateful, which apparently it wasn’t given that some stayed and the examples I gave were all only rule 3 bans, then I see no reason why they would be banned and considered “not related to mlp”.
 

 
Oh good, we wouldn’t want to delete any images with a hammer and sickle ^:)

@Sensual Spaghetti  
@Sensual Spaghetti  
The Rule 3 deletions are things that should’ve been deleted when they were uploaded swept up during a Rule 0 review of old images in bulk. The “Nazi” tag was checked first (if it’s tagged Nazi and not deleted now, it’s probably there to stay), and we’re currently looking at images under the “racism” tag.  
In time I intend to make sure we do a pass over political images in general, which would actually be Rule 3 focused I think.  
I should note as well that we deleted 3 images that were tagged “nazbol” for Rule #3: 1742050 1769013 1887794. There appears to be some inconsistency there, which we’ll have to clean up later.

@Sensual Spaghetti
 
Another trend - editing ponies to be wearing uniforms or holding weapons is rule 3 if it’s nazi related:  
https://derpibooru.org/images/603716  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/750908  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/750909  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/750914  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/1080174  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/2018031  

 
But it’s still mlp related if it’s not nazi themed (also see other thousands of edited screencaps):  
 
 
 
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@Princess Luna
 
It really seems like rule 3 is being stretched by mods to remove content they dont like.
 
These and many more Nazi related images were removed for rule #3:  
https://derpibooru.org/images/98289  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/393051  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/393055  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/405470  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/495624  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/637494  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/637495  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/637497  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/1101031  

 
https://derpibooru.org/images/2222121  

 
While comparable non Nazi imagery is left alone (also see the other thousands of images tagged ponies in real life):  
 
 
 
 
 
 

@Sensual Spaghetti  
The latter image is deleted for Rule #3 (obligatory pony, or in this case, obligatory twilicane), not Rule #0 (discrimination etc.). If there was some original art to it I’m quite sure it wouldn’t’ve been deleted. The former image seems like it has original art in the flag, though I can’t be certain of that.

@Derpy Whooves  
 
Yikes… This post aged nicely. Definitely no boiling the frog here.

@Background Pony #C8CF  
This

You know I think you could just replace all of Inucraft’s responses with “But Nazis.” and the substance of them all would not change the slightest.