Saucenao says it was drawn by Yabuki Kentarou, who is known as the artist for To-Love Ru and related series. It has a post on Yande.re.
Google reverse image search also brings me to an article from ANN that says it’s the cover of one of Japan’s Weekly Playboy mags.
I don’t see any indication that it’s a particular character or person, but I also can’t read Japanese so no idea if there’s anything in the text that would suggest that.
No kidding, that render is on-point. I legit thought this was an actual recording before I expanded the thumbnail. Thanks for sharing.
I don’t think you need to know who I am or who is posting (and if you did, you should go elsewhere, as you noted). It’s enough that you and I are thinking about how votes fit in the community aspect of things (aka sorting things out “naturally” without a special care).
I mistook your stance on downvotes as being all or nothing - if we’re both on votes only being for community members (and I’m still open to putting it back to everyone if/when this instance is bigger), then we’re on the same page.
without a real vote by everyone
I do agree that it may have been hasty to enact the initial downvote restriction without any broader vote. I managed to get my input in, but I that was only on the ModCoord comm I linked you. There was some additional discussion on Matrix, but I only saw that after the fact. I only visit once or twice a day to post and take breaks when my life is busy, so I was also surprised to see the announcement when I came back. The second vote also didn’t include a “no restrictions” vote either, so I suppose that wasn’t an option they wanted to explore.
do anybody realy care if poster have checked votes he got on a post? Who of the readers care?
If readers vote and no one checks, there would be no point. I just look at what gets upvotes and try to post more of that type of content so that readers will have more posts to look through the next time they visit that they’re more likely to like (or if they don’t, they know to block that community and move on).
The popularity of my posts or the total number of funny Internet points is meaningless to me. I do not need it to be “popular” or “viral”, nor is Lemmy a good platform to try that (especially on LemmyNSFW, which is defederated by some other notable instances).
I personally gain nothing by posting; if anything, I’d rather by downloading more hentai instead of posting it myself. I only do this because I want other people to join me and share content so that I can eventually download their posts myself somewhere besides Reddit, which has only gotten worse at that.
pointing to such public discusion with public votes.
Public discussion with public votes is limited, but readers still retained the ability to comment with their disagreements in the official announcement posts and the follow-up poll leading up to relaxing downvote restrictions to community members:
Re: Downvotes
Freedom of expression is important, and is part of why you and I are here, but freedom cannot exist without some limits. Downvotes were disabled for a number of reasons, but the biggest one I could see was that some types of content get substantially downvoted despite being appropriate for their communities. How can members of that community express what they like if other, potentially uninvolved people, keep downvoting it?
It’s not about “protecting snowflakes”, but instead, just making room for other communities and interests. No one’s asking you or anyone to go love every single fetish out there, just leave’em alone if you’re not interested.
For me, it has been a successful change. Content that fits in the communities I’m involved in continue to see better upvote counts, while content that doesn’t is seeing next to none (or even negative).
Re: Back To Original Topic
In my original post, I cited both reasons to go back to Reddit or stay on LemmyNSFW for NSFW content. I think we both know we disagree on the topic of downvotes, so let’s not get stuck on that. Is there anything else you wanted consider that we haven’t discussed?
EDIT: Accidentally cut out my note about why votes matter and never added it back in. Fixed. EDIT2: Clarified “who of the readers care?”
I think it’s a fair question. I’m only here because I want options besides Reddit for NSFW content. I also don’t think Reddit has done enough to preserve access to NSFW content or third-party apps (and their official app is terrible for me), so I would like to help build other options.
Unfortunately, Reddit is still a much more popular option. People don’t have many good reasons to choose LemmyNSFW for now as long as Reddit still has most things people want:
I would say it’s “hard to choose” Lemmy if you don’t care about having alternatives to Reddit that might be healthier.
It doesn’t get any better though if no one tries to make other options exist, so I hope that posting and commenting will help other people choose LemmyNSFW in the future if Reddit makes more unpopular decisions.
About your 7th Point: I think readers are still very important here. I and others consider lurkers/readers in a few ways:
I think change can be hard, but I hope you can recognize that the moderators and administrators are open to trying something new, just like how using Lemmy is something new. There are even decisions I disagree with, but the alternative of being solely dependent on Reddit is still worse.
I’ve only had success with posting links to animated WebP files, which preview and display correctly in the default web UI. It doesn’t seem to work perfectly across the variety of apps and their handling of images though.
I think @NotAGuyInAHat mentioned that they use EZgif to do it. I generate them locally with FFmpeg, though that’s a little technical.
Late to conversation, but my two-cents: downvoting content you don’t like in a community you’re subbed to is one thing, but I wonder about the number of drive-by downvotes that come from people who aren’t even subbed to the community.
If downvotes are supposed to be a form of community moderation, then it doesn’t seem productive to allow visitors to downvote something when they aren’t even a part of that community and unfamiliar with its rules and expectations. (This is easily circumvented by temporarily subscribing, of course, but hopefully they don’t hate it that much.) I’m not so strongly impacted by this to suggest disabling it entirely, but maybe disabling it if you’re unsubbed might be helpful.
I only hold this view because the default frontpage view is set to Local by default instead of Subscribed.
That might work OK on more homogenized instances, but given that we’ve all got our own niche tastes, I’m not sure it’s appropriate for this instance. I personally never browse Local because I’m not interested in most of the content there, but I don’t downvote everything I see. Unfortunately, asking users to change their settings or behavior will probably get you nowhere.
Nvm I tried it one more time ( https://lemmynsfw.com/post/2547941 ) and it doesn’t generate the fucky preview and directly embeds the WebP from Catbox instead.
My guess is that it only fucks up if I click on the “Browse” to upload button out of habit even if I cancel out to paste a link instead. Thanks for the sanity check.
WebP definitely introduces some jank, but I think Lemmy is adding more on top of what’s already there. If I open up the Catbox upload and the Lemmy preview side-by-side, I can see some weird stuff exclusive to the preview that Lemmy generates.
Comparison: https://files.catbox.moe/zdv97e.png
Thanks for replying though. I think I’ve already spent enough time thinking about how to upload lewds lol so I’ll just stick to stills for now and maybe try again later or if we ever get better animation/video support on Lemmy
Sounds like the only difference is I’m running it through locally w/ FFmpeg. I’ll try out some other converters later.
I removed the broken post earlier, but I’ll put it back up here: https://lemmynsfw.com/post/2520299. The post is linked to Catbox but Lemmy is generating the fucky preview.
Nagoonimation’s always animating the good stuff. 👌👌
By the way, are you doing anything special when you post your animated WEBP files? I’m uploading mine to Catbox and then using that as the link for the post, but Lemmy keeps generating a broken embed and showing that instead of using the image I link to on Catbox and I have no idea wtf is happening. Expanding yours just embeds the Catbox image, which is what I want…
Thank you~ I’ve updated my sidebar to refer to the correct rule number when reminding users to not post any instance-wide banned materials like underage or non-con content etc. etc.
Looking forward to the docs page getting built out progressively to help navigate some of the nuances around some of the more “gray” rules that are harder to adjudicate on. It’s a lot of work, and I’d imagine no user will read it right off the bat, but it’ll be helpful to refer them to when making those judgement calls and referring users to when they (hopefully) accidentally post banned content. The thought and depth of the work is very appreciated.
I spend a lot of time playing NSFW games for sure. I recently picked up Dungeon with Girl and have been having a good time with it, though the combat isn’t much more than average fluff. The random lewd events and character interactions make it worthwhile though (and the sex after all the dungeon lol)
My Playnite install guesstimates that I’ve spent about 1052 hours playing H-games.
I was also thinking about starting a H-game community here, but I might just join yours instead if you’ve already got one going (and don’t have a problem with Hentai, that is).
Not the original asker, but to clarify the first question: should I take this to mean that aged up are possibly acceptable in this revision as opposed to a complete ban?
I’m not asking this to start posting “oppai loli” content or w/e, but moreso content that provide better context clues for the characters being older:
I’m mostly asking this as a moderator since I’ve taken care to ensure characters depicted in my posts are either canonically 18 and up or at least appear sufficiently old enough (if no canonical age is available) to make it easy on myself, but I’d like to have a better idea of where to draw the line when moderating posts from others, if possible, in a way that suits this instance. (Thanks!)
Hi, not much for me to contribute other than echoing my thanks for managing this instance. I’ve been too busy to post as actively on my one community recently, but I’ve continued to check in on posts in case anything needed modding under the current rules.
I would highlight that I do appreciate Limeey’s break down of what happened. While I don’t think it’s reasonable or necessary to provide a full explanation each time, it does inspire confidence in me that this instance will have a team that thinks through its governance in the future.
Some members of the admin team have publicly shared strong views and attitudes that I disagree with, leaving me concerned with the long-term viability of this instance if they dominated the decision-making process. However, it sounds like there’s potential for the team to deliberate and find a path forward that toes a balance between being permissive while maintaining a level of risk that the team is comfortable with.
I hope we can see a similar level of clarity and consideration when the next revision of the rules and guidelines are available.
It’ll be sad to see you go, but perfectly understandable considering everything that’s happened. Just opening the instance alone and governing it for as long as you have is already an amazing amount of effort, so I hope you won’t lose sight of that in spite of all the challenges.
Definitely hope you take some time to take care of yourself as you step away from here. Best of luck with finding someone to take over.
If it’s the art style you like, you might try looking through other pieces by this artist on boorus like Gelbooru/Danbooru. Not every single one is drawn and shaded in that style, but it beats nothing.
I’m sure there are also other artists that share some similarities, but I can’t name any off the top of my head. Let me know if you find some!