An explanation of current events.

Luzion
Rampant Alicorn - The majestic steed of a blessed crusade
A toast - Incredibly based
Fried Chicken - Attended an april fools event
Donor | Lyra -
Squirrel of Legend - A squirrel that was there in a time of great need
Liberty Belle - Sings the song of the unchained

Senior Moderator
pingus
As many users have noticed, I’ve been promoted to Site Administrator. This decision was made given the inactivity of Moderators and Admins. Its plainly obvious that many of the moderators and admins have gone quiet. While I do not want to get into all the details behind this, a public explanation to our users is deserved.
 
With the state of world right now, many people have had their lives flipped upside down, our staff included. Ive been lucky to have moved across the country and finding a new job, all while Covid-19 and other such events have been occurring, however; the rest of our moderation team has not been so lucky. Again I do not want to go into all the details, as everyone deserves a certain level of privacy. I ask that our users respect our staffs right to privacy and to not pester them about it, most of them have had to re-prioritize focus and take care of themselves. Changes to site policy, DNP deletions, new features, and all other various manners of site management may or will be slowing until a time occurs when more of our staff are available.
 
I’m committed to doing my best to keep Ponybooru running and will give as much of my free time to the site as I can , to a healthy extent at least. I’ll be focusing mostly rule violations and keeping the peace. I ask that any artist/user who has an active DNP that has not been taken care of to message me. I’ll write up a list and keep track of it and chip away at it when I can. I just ask that everyone understand my current position and give me ample time to take care of things when I can.
 
If you have any questions, dont hesitate to ask.
Luzion
Rampant Alicorn - The majestic steed of a blessed crusade
A toast - Incredibly based
Fried Chicken - Attended an april fools event
Donor | Lyra -
Squirrel of Legend - A squirrel that was there in a time of great need
Liberty Belle - Sings the song of the unchained

Senior Moderator
pingus
@Boxless  
Where the users on 4chan inevitably take this out of context and proclaim that our site is dying because “lmao all the mods left” or some dumb shit like that?
Boxless

Mmm, Warcrimes
@Luzion  
I was more referring to what’s next on the retard train of 2020 and/or the Philobooru Challenger Disaster(s).
 
 
And to be fair, it wouldn’t be too far off the mark.
Luzion
Rampant Alicorn - The majestic steed of a blessed crusade
A toast - Incredibly based
Fried Chicken - Attended an april fools event
Donor | Lyra -
Squirrel of Legend - A squirrel that was there in a time of great need
Liberty Belle - Sings the song of the unchained

Senior Moderator
pingus
I don’t mind how quiet it’s been. I’m just happy we have survived the thumbnail disaster. :D
 
That was certainly a time of worry and excitement, I forget exactly how high the upload rate was but I know we peaked well over 25k images per 24 hours.
 
@evan555alpha  
Give me mod and I promise I won’t destroy everything ^:)
 
no :^)
Acres
Rampant Alicorn - The majestic steed of a blessed crusade
A toast - Incredibly based (but on what?)
U Lil Shid - Hi, Im a lil shid.
Donor | Applejack - Wait, this isn't Lyra's...
Book Horse - A user who has contributed to 5k+ metadata changes.
Liberty Belle - Sings the song of the unchained (Renowned Sound)

Better to have quiet mods enforce a rule fairly than to have 15 loud as fuckmods all enforce a rule differently.
 
I would say it might not be a bad idea to mod someone at least temporarily to lower workload
Havoc
Fried Chicken - Attended an april fools event
Artist - shidtist
U Lil Shid - Hi, Im a lil shid.
Chatty Kirin - A shidder who has reached 1000 combined forum shids or comments.
Liberty Belle - Shids the song of the unshidded

Half Dragon, Half Meme
If I may suggest, may I be given public relations status? I feel like I’ve already been doing that job for a while now.
Anonymous #F0F1
@Luzion  
More like Derpibooru’s “special” users taking it out of context and celebrating because “Lmao their little, insignificant safeheven is crumbling down SERVES THEM RIGHT FOR BETRAYING DERPIBOORU AND NOT BEING AS NICE AS US, LMAO” or something like that.
 
For what’s worth, I like this place because it’s quiet, everthing runs slower and has less users.
_
A toast - Incredibly based
Fried Chicken - Attended an april fools event
Chatty Kirin - A user who has reached a combined 1000 forum posts or comments.
Liberty Belle - Sings the song of the unchained

Well, if this place it’s still so quiet and peaceful as it is now I shouldn’t care about anything else.
 
@Anonymous #F0F1  
Agreed.  
It feels good to see how they’re reeeing and deleting every comment about altboorus while at the same time I don’t have to see drama in every pic in this place.
runner2
Boot badge - It's Bootiful
Donor | Luna - THE LOVE HAS BEEN DOUBLED!
Artist -
Liberty Belle - Sings the song of the unchained

Libertatem Noctibus
I did have a few fun and somewhat heated discussions with people on Derpi in the past (one of which got the artist perma-banned) I certainly don’t mind the quiet atmosphere we have going here. While the fairly slow upload rate is a little off-putting, the content that is allowed here and not on Derpi does make up for it quite well.
 
Everything is just more relaxed here really. :)
Anonymous #F0F1
@Тпсс_  
This place is quiet and peaceful because Derpibooru’s noisiest posters still haven’t joined, and the ones who already did, kind of realized up this place wouldn’t put up with their behavior the same way as Derpibooru did so they don’t comment much.  
Probably that’s why they hate this place so much and can’t cope with it.
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