IMO the rules tend to have detrimental effect. Instead of high-effort, high-detail pictures, where you risk some tiny mistake getting through, and hours of your work going down the drain because a background character is missing one ear, I've noticed an uptick in uploads of pictures where hands are cropped or hidden behind back, pictures so simple there's very little that can go wrong, series of cookie-cutter poses with one prompt word swapped out to change the color, 'cause someone finally arrived at one working pic and they now want to milk the effect to fullest extent. The arbitrary "correctness" standard has chilled efforts to try to make pictures that are complex enough to have a potential to be incorrect.

And a lot of people have great ideas, but work with Purplesmart.ai dreambot, or Civitai's on-site generator because they can't run models good enough locally. And that means no inpainting, no correcting one detail while leaving other unmodified. That means the only thing you can do if you spot a mistake is hit 'generate' again, pay the buzz, and pray this time the mistake will be gone. That unique, one-in-a-million facial expression? Down the drain because six toes. Eventually you may download the result and do some manual editing in gfx program. But if I can get 250 buzz daily for free, I can choose to spend it:

- to generate five pics I really like personally, and I'm sure most of users here would like too. But they won't pass moderation due to minuscule flaws.
- maybe one that will pass the moderator scrutiny here, if I try really hard, spend all the free buzz I got and get lucky in the end.
- or I can generate a series of twenty pictures from which most will pass moderation, get 5 upvotes max each, and clutter the timeline for everyone, 'cause they are too simple to be flawed.

I know which option I prefer. I can create just for myself, stuff I like. I get nothing from posting here, I don't care about gaming the system just to have something on site. I'm just tired of this. And I guess I'm not alone in this feeling.

Sometimes in the afternoon I check this site, find five pics I love, so I add them to favs with intention to download at home in the evening. And in the evening four of them are gone. Some artists who'd been prolific here, hardly ever post anymore. But I'm sure I'll see another five pics of Loona with hands behind her back being fucked missionary style first person view, 'cause the lora's strong, the fingers are hidden, and the pic fulfills the site's requirements.

Is this really what the mods want to do with this site?