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There's no code of conduct that I can find on Giantessbooru. I checked, then I double-checked to make sure I wasn't missing something. I can't find any suggestion that there's a set of rules or code of conduct that we're required to agree to in order to comment on this site, unless it's under the segment required to gain entry to this 'adult website' in which case it's been so long since I've seen it and there is interesting commentary available on the usefulness of EULAs as a means of ensuring a user's behavior; if you own and operate an Apple product, for example, did you know that you are legally bound from using any part of its code in a device capable of detonating a nuclear weapon? Fascinating stuff.
So, as far as I can tell, there's no official minimum standard of behavior for the users of this site. Naturally, there's the generally agreed-upon rule of 'don't be a dick,' which has been enforced in the past with threads being locked, PMs sent to the relevant people involved and the odd banning here and there as a last resort. I'm surprised it's come to that point, really, but in the main it seems as though banning has been a tactic reserved for genuinely disruptive users. I don't have anything in particular against this. It's a system which is largely fair and transparent. When spurious, ridiculous or even outright grotesque comments are left in the public eye and people are able to see what comes of that behavior they serve as ample warning and a yardstick by which to point out what is and is not acceptable in this space. This seems reasonable to me.
So, again. A quick glance around the screen to double-check whether or not there's a code of conduct, set of rules or behavioral guidelines that I'm simply missing? Still not seeing it.
Deleting an image and the comments associated with it in anything other than the most extreme examples of bigotry, incitement to hatred or violence is stupid. Coupled with the fact that this is done without tagging any of the users involved in that thread with a PM to either A.) alert them that this action is unacceptable and they face censure if they continue or B.) tell them what they had written was unacceptable and removed as a matter of course, that then makes it a dick move.
I understand full well the responsibilities of a volunteer position. I've been there myself. I even very briefly considered applying for one of the moderator positions here back in the day in order to help with the backlog, if you can believe that. I think the right choice was in backing down, and god forbid anyone had actually approved that application! You aren't being paid for your effort in anything other than the satisfaction of assisting a community - I use the term remarkably loosely - and knowing that you're helping out a broader group of like minds and similar interests. I get it. It's hard, really. I don't mean to belittle the efforts of any of the mods here, because I do genuinely appreciate the fact that this is an unpaid position which people spend their personal time on.
That being said, there are a few people on the moderator list that (just like me) really shouldn't be there. The people that delete pictures and threads and comments to keep everything fluffy and friendly and safe and cuddly on a website where we regularly beat off to photoshopped images of women crushing thousands; what you're doing in that case is stupid. There are times that comment chains go too far, or the joke stops being funny, or someone just needs to take their finger off the goddamn shift key... but deleting them for no reason other than maintaining some farcical idea of this as a sanctuary from 'meanies' is a fucking joke. Particularly because those rambling, insane commentaries provide some of my best material to work with.
I'm going to drop this here and I'm going to wait and see what happens. I hope that it generates some kind of discussion about either a code of conduct, transparency on the part of the moderator team (and again guys, not meaning to pick on anyone specific except whoever has a beef against fun) or just some way to open these topics somewhere more appropriate than a random image. I quite genuinely don't want to rock the boat for the sake of stirring up shit, but this silent policing is ridiculous.
tl;dr if you're going to delete comments, PM a user to tell them why.
If this gets deleted, just ban me, because I will take that as an incentive to continue making noise about this behavior.
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