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kory
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2025-09-15 12:36:39
No. If the picture itself is fine then that’s ok most of the time. However, if someone makes a huge fuss about a work being removed for violating the content policy and then changes their avatar to a pic from that work then that could be grounds for removal
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Recently, I noticed that Zeanobia has on her gallery an avatar of Saki Yoshida
◊, the protagonist of Metamorphosis 2013. That work was cut by a CVD thread
for being too porny.
Now, I'm not sure if avatars from Content-Policy violating works are banned even if the pics themselves are SFW. When I asked this in the Wiki Policy Thread
, Fighteer responded that they could mean trouble if you use them as a form of sneaky protest, but I can't say that's Zeanobia's intent. Moreover, the new "no-rule breaking avatars" rule
doesn't say anything about Content-Policy violating works.
Should we give Zeanobia a tap on the shoulder to remove the Saki avatar or not?