About Uploading
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Uploading to art.mobius.social (AMS) is simple - just hit the upload button and follow the form! However, we have a few guidelines to make certain people can find art.
Tags
The most important aspect of AMS are the tags, and we require 3 tags and at least 1 rating tag per image. If you don't know the name of a tag, just begin typing and it'll automatically suggest tags at the 3rd character. The most important tags are the rating tag, the subject tag, and the artist tag, so start with those.
Is it safe?
- safe - perfectly squeaky clean, incompatible with other tags. Or, it can have one of the other categories of tags:
- Erotica tags:
- suggestive - saucy or risque, but no more than a comic pinup would be.
- questionable - too hot for TV but not showing an overt sexual act.
- explicit - showing an overt sexual act.
- Dark tags:
- semi-grimdark - nightmare fuel for kids.
- grimdark - nightmare fuel for adults. Horror, gore, and overt traumatic events.
- Gross tags:
- grotesque - anything disgusting and disconcerting.
- blood - any amount of blood
- seizure warning - any image that blinks 5 or more times per second (or 3 or more times per second if it includes a flash to or away from a red color).
- vulgar - foul language.
Who's in it?
Just start typing their name in, and it'll suggest tags below.
If you see a (0) next to the tag, that means it's probably an alias. For example, trying to put the tag tails will automatically insert the tag miles "tails" prower when the upload is processed. (It works for search, too!)
Who made it, and how?
After rating and character, the most important tag is the artist. All artist tags start with artist:, so make certain to put that in before typing in the rest of the tag.
If you don't know the artist, and you can't find the artist after searching, the artist needed tag flags that image for any later web searchers to look.
What're they doing?
Tag for their pose, their facial expressions, and their overall action.
Description
If the source has a title, use _original title:_ and the title underneath in *bolded text*.
If the source has a description, use _original description:_ and the description underneath it.
Simple "be sure to like and subscribe" boiler plate doesn't need to be copied. If the original description uses platform-specific tags that we can't emulate, note _original description (sans platform-specific tags):_ instead.If the source has tags, treat them carefully. Generally, we'll have an equivalent tag in our list. However, some sites (e.g., Tumblr, FurAffinity) use tags humorously - if so, put them in the description instead of as a tag.
Sources
If you do not know the original source, first check Saucenao, Tineye, and Bing Images.
If you cannot find a source, tag it source needed. This flags the upload as erroneous, so treat this as a last resort!
If you find multiple sources, and can't determine which one is preferred by the artist, use this rough order of priority for which to use:
- An artist's own website
- Newgrounds
- Pixiv
- InkBunny
- Weasyl
- SoFurry
- Furry Network
- DeviantArt
- a Mastodon instance
- Tumblr
- FurAffinity
- e621
- Any other image board
Image aggregators that do not preserve the source in an format that can be read (such as VK or Pinterest) or which are temporary and/or don't preserve the source at all (such as chan-style boards) are never acceptable sources.