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the dmca takedowns is just scratching the surface, it's that users below approver are no longer able to see banned (dmca'd) posts, that banned posts no longer have an indicator on the catalog, that banned posts no longer shows up on saucenao, that banned artists no longer gets reposted by gelbooru's bot, and that approver promotions are picked at random once in a blue moon. if your rank is below approver you can't see your own post if it gets banned.
oh and regarding banned artists, a few months ago they deprecated the banned artist tag which meant posts would no longer be automatically banned upon posting, which meant it would get reposted by gelbooru's bot, but then they decided to manually ban those banned artists, and eventually decided to reverse the decision so that posts from banned artists are back to automatically getting banned except without the banned artist tag. so the whole ordeal was pointless and they just did it to rub it in our faces.
