User interaction lock (or anything else to do with artist and metadata as opposed to artist and image) is complete nonsense, coddling, and because
BOORUS ARE NOT ARTIST PERSONAL GALLERIES, wide open to abuse.
By leaving that in, you will receive even more uploads with forgetting to tag the artist (because they’ll assume it IS a personal art gallery, it already happens excessively on derpi), and even more work for the staff because of users bypassing it as others have already said
aren’t you constantly claiming to be lazy too busy? don’t give yourself completely pointless work, and because it WILL need manual intervention since
tags on the booru are editable by definition, so either you lock and unlock comments manually, lock the tags and have to change them yourselves (ruining the booru’s purpose in the process), or have to deal with people easily bypassing this, and using this “”“DNP””” to lock comments down on unrelated images or collabs.
Additionally I suspect it was added to distract from other changes to the rules so I will need to go over them in more detail.
P.S. This specific iteration of the rules saved at
https://archive.md/jxNBg
P.P.S. This is blatant coddling. As Derpi example shows,
you do NOT want the artists who demand to be coddled - they’ll either not use your site, content with you having caved to demands, or they’ll be shitty people who drive users away.