hammapajamma said:
What I don't get about this stuff is the inconsistency.

This was spoken about recently on the e6ai channel on Furry Diffusion.
I'll link to the start of the conversation if you'd like to read through it yourself, but if you don't want to, I'll also summarise the key pointers that were made (mostly by ceti).

Different staff members can enforce the same rules differently. When it comes to "young" posts, we have had constant and ongoing discussions about them, and while we do have some general agreement of what does and doesn't constitute "young", there's still a bit of "vibes-based" judgement when it comes to whoever staff member is left to either approve or delete a post.

Now, here's an important note: Uploaders are allowed to contest those deletions, just as they can if it was any other post deleted for whichever other reason. It's in the site rules, but I'll put it here and highlight some specifics here too

Disputing Staff Actions

If you are ever faced with a staff action that you do not agree with – be it a post deletion, a warning, or a ban – the first thing that you should do is contact the staff member responsible for that action via a DMail.

You'll even find that most of us have that written on our user profiles, which are easily accessed via the deletion reason, or if you're on FD or the site's own Discord server, we're just as easily contacted there. We're not monsters, and we're more than happy to clarify our reasoning for decisions made, and if you still disagree, well contested deletions then get discussed by all the staff, and put to a vote. There have been countless posts that have been undeleted this way, including ones exactly as you and the OP were describing.

Is it a bit annoying? Sure, but if an uploader/director truly disagrees with said reasoning, then this is the best and fairest way to go about it.

I've said it countless times, but it's not as if we're actively looking to delete posts. We want people to upload their gens. There would be no e6ai if all we did was delete things, but there are rules and quality guidelines present that are expected to be followed, and it's us staff members who are there to make sure they are. We're individuals, not a hivemind, and that means that sometimes mistakes get made, but for when perceived mistakes DO happen, we also have rules and systems in place to help correct that.