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@Cypher
If that’s the lesson you learned from your crowd, I’ve go to say that there are a bunch of toxic posers in it. In all the years that I upload AI I haven’t had these kind of complaints at all, and I unintentionally starve my followers with my content.

Aside from that and AI, for me it has always been literally impossible to predict the reaction of the crowd. One time I made a painting in 2 hours because of a deadline and the reception was so grand that it got stolen from me within a week. The other time I spent months making another painting and the general reception was ‘‘meh, don’t like it’’.

So, you can go with your own flow and attract a crowd that fits with you or you can follow a toxic crowd and spiral into an unpleasant direction.

I’ve understood one thing: you make quality, you’re told to get lost; you make quantity, and suddenly you’re awesome. And that’s a fact. Besides, most of my pictures are… I won’t say it, plus half of what has been provided can be deleted

@Cypher
No they are not. You have made some of the best content that has ever graced this site. When people tell you this they are only trying to bring you down because they are jealous of your success and what you have accomplished. When you get close to success there will always be people that will try and drag you down, as if you were Icarus with his wax wings. People like this, you should not respect their opinion because they do not have your best interests in mind, only their own. Their opinion is worth the dirt under your feet. We are practically just ants bickering on a rock. Making some silly drawings with AI does not in any way invalidate you as a person.

@Cypher
I upvoted over 68% of your images (of those shown with my filters on). So no, I wouldn’t say your images are bad.

So it turns out everything I made, including the LoRAs, was bad

Maybe, for a bit. But if they are bland and boring they won’t get crowd. So people will, over time, have to make the little extra work to fix their shit.

This approach has a potential drawback. It’s easier to generate an image without errors if it’s simple and doesn’t contain complex details, poses, composition, etc. Therefore, this may drive people to generate less interesting images.

If we are talking about low quality, time limiting uploads doesn’t solve this problem either, only discourages it. The main cause is people who generate but don’t edit. If they pick the best of the set and move to generating something else, that’s a partial win. If they just spread their uploads over time, that is arguably even worse.

If we are talking about uploading multiple images with the same theme, image sets could help.

@Background Pony #93F7
Not really. It would still dump pics with errors or lacking in general quality onto the site. With AI, you take the factor time nearly out of the equation. Normally an artist can maybe publish one full pic (colored, shaded, the whole 9 yards) once a week (depending on time they have to work on it). I can get a pic up to snuff in a few hours. Professionals, people with art skills and a decent setup, probably even faster. So art limited itself in the past, by taking time. Quality = Time, but not with AI.

I say for AI this limit should be Quality. I don’t mean is it good artistic, but it is free of errors, are the details clear and so on. Stuff you can measure, since “art” is subjective. Yes, you can’t force people to stick to these standards, but you can say: “If that is what you want to publish, do it somewhere else.” There is a reason why most other sites have strict rules and upload limits.

@truekry
If Philomena had a feature for image sets, it would partially solve this problem (as well as the problem of regular artists posting one image with multiple different variations).

A daily download limit seems reasonable. But it’s kind of sad… I mean, if restrictions and limits seem like the only solution.

@truekry
Yeah, I also think some daily upload limit would be a good idea and should improve the upload quality, preventing the spam of nearly identical pictures. As for the anthro, I just wish people would remember to tag it every time.

The problem is, how to “enforce” that. If you make a “rule” to only post the best results, people will go “Oh, all my stuff is goat.” And then there is the issue that most users frankly, don’t care. Pictures with massive errors get voted to the high heavens because of lewd. Also, from what I have been told, most users don’t even go and look at the full pictures, only the previews and vote from there. So most quality issues go unnoticed.

My personal solution, would be to limit uploads to like 3 for every 24h. This is more than enough imho. Select your best of the best and upload that.

@Background Pony #3FCE
I have to agree that in the last months, the ratio of pony/anthro shifted hard. It is way more anthro these days than half a year ago. Maybe because uploaders left, maybe because new users like that more. Who knows. But like Meta_Void said, that what filters are for.

@Background Pony #3FCE
Just add the tags to your blocked tags list.

@Background Pony #5C9C
Yeah honestly, posting 10 variations of the same prompt is what Civit AI is for.

I would rather complain about straight-from-generator images with obvious errors that no one bothers to fix.
Like this. It’s not so hard to fix at least the cutie mark, just get appropriate png from the internet.

I honestly believe the spamming happens (and will keep on) because people who do it thinks every generated image is worth posting since it looks not too bad. I kinda had similar thoughts when I just started generating, I was thinking like “this generated picture doesn’t look too bad, I don’t want to throw it away”.
It’s reasonable when it comes to human-made art because each artwork takes a lot of efforts and it might be too hard to discard even a failed piece. But this is becomes a bad habit when it comes to AI art.

Spam humans/anthros on a pony website here.