Topic: [feature request]Being rejected for "duplicate or inferior version of another post" will not reduce the number of uploads.

It's really frustrating to see fewer and fewer things I'm uploading It's simply because I couldn't find the highest quality image source or I didn't know that this image had been uploaded before. (although I should have used higher quality images in the first place,However, if you mistakenly believe that no one has uploaded this author's work because you got the author's name wrong, it's really difficult to find out whether the image has been uploaded before.).and is that the main effort spent uploading an image is on tagging it. It's really frustrating to see your hard work "stolen"Or "vanish into nothingness". just because The two reasons mentioned above.

kubihazusaikou said:
For example, there are two pictures: Picture A was uploaded in 2013 and Picture B was uploaded in 2025.If image B contains a tag that is not present in image A, the user who uploaded image B will automatically add that tag to image A.

This is already a thing. Replacement will keep all the tag it originally had.

yummytummysketties said:
This is already a thing. Replacement will keep all the tag it originally had.

Does "originally" refer to the tag of image B?

yummytummysketties said:
This is already a thing. Replacement will keep all the tag it originally had.

Will the favorites and comments of post B also be transferred to post A in my example?

yummytummysketties said:
This is already a thing. Replacement will keep all the tag it originally had.

I also hope that the Replacements help page can provide an example to illustrate the situation.

kubihazusaikou said:
Does "originally" refer to the tag of image B?

Image A (older post)

Replacement will literally replace the post A with post B.
Tags, comments and votes will all be kept.
It's different from inferior version/duplicate because post A won't appear as deleted

kubihazusaikou said:
I also hope that the Replacements help page can provide an example to illustrate the situation.

https://e621.net/post_replacements?search%5Buploader_id_on_approve%5D=2202649
https://e621.net/post_replacements?search%5Bpost_id%5D=5816125

yummytummysketties said:
Image A (older post)

Replacement will literally replace the post A with post B.
Tags, comments and votes will all be kept.
It's different from inferior version/duplicate because post A won't appear as deleted

https://e621.net/post_replacements?search%5Buploader_id_on_approve%5D=2202649
https://e621.net/post_replacements?search%5Bpost_id%5D=5816125

Thank you for your detailed explanation!!!!!!!!!!

kubihazusaikou said:
Thank you for your detailed explanation!!!!!!!!!!

不用谢!
Oh yeah by the way, if it's a feature request, make sure you include [feature request] in the title.

yummytummysketties said:
不用谢!
Oh yeah by the way, if it's a feature request, make sure you include [feature request] in the title.

这是我应该做的!Because you've put in some effort for me,This kind act deserves gratitude.

kubihazusaikou said:
adding a section for the "first tager" to specifically thank those who brought the image to this website

You're credited as the first tagger already.
post #5816125
This is replaced by Song but if you check the Tags/Desc history, your name shows up as the first tagger/uploader.

kubihazusaikou said:
I suggest adding a section for the "first tager" to specifically thank those who brought the image to this website.

We specifically got rid of that on the post's page because it was causing too much moderation problems. Uploaders were getting aggressively possessive about the posts they uploaded, so they threw hissy fits whenever someone replaced it, even though it wasn't their art in the first place! Oddly, they were more of a problem than self-uploading artists who got upset when someone replaced one of their posts with a superior version. Some power uploaders were especially bad as they could get competitive about getting their numbers up, but others who didn't quite understand how the site works could also get upset.

Hiding the uploaders has eased that problem tremendously. Nowadays, the only place non-staff can see that is to look on a post's Tags/Desc history page.

As @Clawstripe said, this used to be a feature years ago. You could see who uploaded the post first and they would get the "credit" of bringing the post here on e6.
However, it got removed because of the type of environment it creates, which I will mention below.

Your feature request will suffer the same problems as the ones we faced before, which are:

• (1) You could simply add the bare minimum of tags/effort and upload the post here, in effect making you the "first" one to post here. People will spam uploads without properly tagging them just to get the uploader's credit.
• (2) This will in turn build a toxic competitive environment where people will fight over who posts a popular artist's artwork first and have their names "credited" next to it, even though they didn't really do anything significant. People have also gone to extreme lengths, such as automating uploads (that they had pirated) which are posted mere seconds after the artist posts theirs publicly. It got so bad that the original artist did not even have time to post here themselves before it got reposted by somebody else.
• (3) It creates confusion as to who is the artist here since there are labelled as the "Uploader". People may mistaken that credit as being the artist's own account here on e6.