Topic: Updated Site Rules, Uploading Guidelines, Ratings and Avoid Posting list

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lucalunera

Admin

Updated Site Rules, Uploading Guidelines, Ratings and Avoid Posting list

Hi everyone,

Today we're publishing revised versions of four pages: the Site Rules and Code of Conduct, the Uploading Guidelines, the Ratings guide and the Avoid Posting (DNP) list.

Most of what you'll find there isn't new. These pages came over from e6ai largely unchanged, and in places they contradicted each other, referred to tools we no longer use, or didn't match how the site actually works today. This revision is mostly about fixing that:

  • Clarity: plainer wording, shorter rules, and examples where a rule used to leave you guessing.
  • Consistency: the four pages now agree with each other. For example, the rules and the guidelines used to disagree on whether a restriction applied to "explicit" or "suggestive or explicit" content. The Ratings guide now defines both terms.
  • Professionalism: the pages read like blep's own, not a copy of another site's.
  • Your feedback: several changes come straight from what you've told us in the forums: clearer quality expectations, a real way to fix a post instead of losing it, and an answer on young characters.
  • Housekeeping: outdated contact details, links and processes are gone.
  • Legal care: rules around real people, minors and deepfakes are written to match current US law.

The full change log is below. If something reads as unclear or wrong, reply here. We'd rather fix a sentence now than argue about it later.

Change log

Uploading Guidelines
  • Quality standard: a flaw counts if a viewer would notice it at 100% zoom without hunting for it.
  • Fix and resubmit: if a moderator sends your post back, fix it and use Replace on the same post. Disagree with a decision? Use the appeal button.
  • Minimum size: images must be at least 768px in both dimensions. This is now firm, not "likely". Videos have no minimum.
  • Young characters: young anthropomorphic and feral characters are now allowed, but must be tagged young. When in doubt, tag it.
    • Young humans and human-adjacent characters (elves, orcs, kemonomimi, or anything with mostly human skin) are still not allowed in suggestive or explicit content.
  • Underage creators: suggestive or explicit content made by a minor, or featuring characters created or owned by a minor, is not allowed.
  • Advertisements: the separate section was removed. Promotion is now covered by the Site Rules (see 1.9 below).
  • Real people: photorealistic human faces are now allowed, as long as they aren't meant to depict a known real person. Likenesses and deepfakes of real, identifiable people are still removed, and anyone shown without consent can use our takedown page.
  • Humans: every post must prominently feature an anthropomorphic or feral character. If something looks human, it counts as human, whatever its lore says.
  • Section titles renamed for clarity, and wording tightened throughout. The rules themselves are otherwise unchanged.
Site Rules and Code of Conduct
  • Structure: Messages became "Communication – Private and Public", and Posts and Tags became "Submissions and Tagging". Old links to rule sections still work.
  • 1.1 Disruptive Behavior: a flat ban on giving medical or legal advice, and on making demands of staff.
  • 1.3 Prejudicial Communications: the old hatred and sexual identity rules are combined into one rule covering race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age and disability.
  • 1.5 Blacklist: downvoting posts for their content is covered here now. Blacklist it instead.
  • 1.7 Role-Play: public role-play is no longer excused when it's short or humorous.
  • 1.9 Advertising: promoting your paid content is now allowed, as long as the uploads that go with it meet our quality standards. Posting the paid content itself is still not allowed. Begging for gifts or sympathy is not allowed.
  • 2.1 Posting Abuse: new rule: uploading something that knowingly breaks the spirit of a rule while staying "technically compliant" is a violation. Disputes over removed posts go through the appeal button.
  • 3.1 Abuse of Site Tools: trimmed to reporting and voting abuse. Overlaps with other rules were removed.
  • 4.3: renamed "Leaked Content and Hacked Data".
  • 4.4 Age Restrictions: rewritten in plain language. Contact address updated to admin@blep.art.
  • Disputing staff actions: appeal removed posts with the appeal button. Take records and warnings to the staff member who issued them, then to an admin. Send ban appeals to admin@blep.art.
  • The old rule against upscaled "better versions" of existing images was dropped.
Ratings
  • Defines "suggestive" as Questionable and "explicit" as Explicit, for every rule that uses those words.
  • "Older characters in diapers" is now "adult characters in diapers".
  • Wording tightened. The ratings themselves are unchanged.
Avoid Posting (DNP) list
  • Now lists every artist on blep's own DNP list.
  • DNP requests now go through our takedown form. The old instructions pointed to another organization's accounts.
  • The empty A-Z headings were collapsed into one list.

Thanks for your patience while we got these into shape, and for the feedback that shaped them.

Ww

Member

Here we go with realistic human and cub content: Allow me to delete this account.

TigsGens

Janitor

ww said:
Here we go with realistic human and cub content: Allow me to delete this account.

Realistic human content must still contain anthro or feral. There won't be human x human content approved.

There were images submitted by established artists that were clearly furry, clearly high quality artistic work, and we were forced to reject them under the old policy.

AI-fterdark

Member

This all seems reasonable with what we already basically had going on in all the other sites. Remember people, you can clean up yourself, if you don't like it, blacklist it, done. I don't like some stuff either, thats why I blacklist it.

hinoserm

Admin

ww said:
Here we go with realistic human and cub content: Allow me to delete this account.

You can request a takedown of your uploads here or delete your account here.

I believe there's still a 7-day new account cooldown on self-deletion, which seems to be baked into the code. I'll look into changing it in the next update.

fs

Member

Are young characters on the default blacklist?

I can add it to a personal blacklist but that's not possible if I'm not signed in for whatever reason.

hinoserm

Admin

Quick note!

The young tag has been added to the blacklist for new users, existing users who had not yet changed their blacklist, and the mandatory blacklist for not-logged-in users (similar to e621).

If you don't want to see this content, please confirm your blacklist contains the tag.

Updated

hinoserm

Admin

fs said:
Are young characters on the default blacklist?

I can add it to a personal blacklist but that's not possible if I'm not signed in for whatever reason.

young is forcibly excluded for users who are not logged in.