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📅 Updated:2025-11-22
🕒 Created:2021-12-09
🆔 ID:38976
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Description
Posts approved before various Uploading Guidelines changes, which would be deleted under current policies.
We accept superior reuploads or replacements of existing grandfathered posts.
Major Guidelines Changes
- From "2011":/wiki_page_versions/4022 to "2013":/wiki_page_versions/10219, various rudimentary upload policies were introduced which restricted content such as...
- Screen captures.
- Low-quality/low-effort memes and image macros.
- Starting "January 2015":/post_flags?commit=Search&page=a16609&search%5Breason_matches%5D=*human*, human-only content was subject to regular deletion.
- Beginning from "October 30, 2016":/wiki_page_versions/34819, different skin colors such as green, red, purple were also considered human only as well.
- In "May of 2016":/wiki_page_versions/28418, the uploading guidelines were added which restricted content such as...
- Photographs of people, animals, fursuits, sculptures, toys, tattoos, etc.
- Poorly-shot photographs of traditional artwork.
- In "March of 2023":/wiki_page_versions/128944, the translation guidelines were added which restricted content such as...
- Non-English translations embedded in a post by third-party editors.
- Low-quality translations embedded in a post by third-party editors.
- Low-quality image/video edits made with the intent to add translations.
