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1. The source isn’t a tag. They are two entirely different things.  
2. If a link was included in the tags, then it would be easy for the admins to delete it.  
3. Deleted posts still wouldn’t be searchable.  
4. Thanks for the link to Derpibooru Refugee.
    
   What I am asking for is a way to find out who requested their art be deleted from the site, so that I can go and find it on the artist’s own site. For once I’m actually asking for a feature which would help people to respect artist’s wishes. The alternative is setting up a script to automatically cache or rehost all deleted images, a la Derpibooru Refugee.

@Vree
Derpibooru already has a reverse image search built in. The script could check that before uploading anything, and prompt the user if there’s any doubt about what it should do. It wouldn’t be perfect, but the time saved when it worked would certainly outweigh the time lost on the occasions when it screwed something up.

I can make it happen, and probably will, but I can’t do it immediately because I’m going to be pretty busy over the next few days. Once that work is out of the way, I might have a shot at coding something for you to try out.

Mass uploads

You could always just upload only a few every day, instead of everything at once. Makes people appreciate the pics more.

“ask” is becoming the universal tag for Tumblr ask blogs. It auto-tags “tumblr” now which is great help.

The tricky ones are those ask blogs that spread each entry accross multiple image files. That means I have to make a collage first, which is time consuming.

Mass uploads

• very rough sketches and early/old art  
• OC/personal pics (this is a DB tradition that is a mix of courtesy and lack of OC interest; very well designed OCs are an exception)  
• something that would be inflammatory, eg. Derpygate pics (I prefer to only hold and eventually upload these, perhaps slip them into the middle of a mass upload where they are less likely to be noticed)  
• personal distaste (rare, but I may ignore extreme
   
  Mass uploads I actually don’t find that difficult to do manually. Thanks to the DB tagging system I can carry over or adjust tags very fast.  
  And I wonder if the mods/users mind that I strain the server/dominate the front page as it is.  
  (It seems that most users have their images per page set to low, because uploading even just 10 or so images at once tends to get me complaints.)
   
  The tricky ones are those ask blogs that spread each entry accross multiple image files. That means I have to make a collage first, which is time consuming. I also try to be “respectful” towards the artist by keeping the resolution, size etc. as close to the original as possible, but when you have several pics of different sizes that make up a tumblr post, sometimes you have to tinker a bit. I’m yet to come up with the perfect solution for this.  
  (If you know of a software that stitches images together by their edges quick, causes minimal resolution/color loss, especially if it can support animated pics too, I’d hear it. :) )
   
  Tagging: I guess automation could help a bit here, if, for example, I wanted to do that last thing and put the “ask” tag on all the blogs. I could just say ‘put the “ask” tag on every image tagged “ask-the-crusaders”’, I bet that could save some work. It depends on whether we think that these undertakings are worth the effort and time.

uploads & reorganizing general: want to have an Ask blog uploaded but don’t have the time to do it alone? do you want help to check if every Johnjoseco image is uploaded or any were missed? need to retag 1,000 images because of a policy change? launching any such initiative would go from here. You could also check if there is anyone else is already working on the same thing you are.

• tag thread: somewhere where you can ask/discuss what a certain tag includes/covers, plan new ones, or launch big re-tag initiatives.
   
• translations: having users who speak languages hang around a thread is useful. A typical problem for example is romanizing Pixiv artists’ names; keeping a list of the Japanese name-romanized name pairs and having a Japanese person occassionally advise when we create new ones could be a ton of help.  
  There are some other language-related questions that could come up.
   
• uploads & reorganizing general: want to have an Ask blog uploaded but don’t have the time to do it alone? do you want help to check if every Johnjoseco image is uploaded or any were missed? need to retag 1,000 images because of a policy change? launching any such initiative would go from here. You could also check if there is anyone else is already working on the same thing you are.
   
  Every day I come accross questions that I do not know where to state to the DB community so I wouldn’t mind a place for them.
   
  Here are also a bunch of sample questions for a start that could go into these threads.  
• DA is full of images that are “based”, ie. they were redrawn from another artist’s piece, but this is admitted and the artist adds enough of their own (colors, detail, redrawn parts) that it goes beyond simple tracing. We have a tag for “vector”s, but we do not have any way to tag these other type of images. Should a tag like “based” or similar exist?  
• Checking the uploads of Stun-99 I notice that many of his romanized names have an underscore _ in them - someone who knows Japanese could perhaps check or explain the reason? eg. he translates artist:しし君と般若 as artist:pash_hn but I also see the same artist tagged as artist:shishikuntohannya.  
• “ask” is becoming the universal tag for Tumblr ask blogs. It auto-tags “tumblr” now which is great help. That means Tumblr comment reposts need to use “tumblr,-ask” though, is that fine? (yes) Should we launch an initiative to retag all the ask blog images that do not have this tag? (no)
   
  I do not intend the threads to actually decide anything; users should work when they fell like it, should be able to make up tags ona whim etc. Mostly I’d just apprecaite sometimes a place to discuss my thoughts or doubts or whatever I’m doing at that moment, without affecting the image comment section.