Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27428960-20161029172126/@comment-25926003-20170202121354

This is a very old point, but I firmly disagree with getting rid of all fanart and hosting a tumblr reblog blog for it. Doing that turns it into a "Who will bell the cat?" situation like everything else in this fandom - who's going to run it? Can the people running it search ever key term on every website every day to find everything? And most importantly, how can we keep this hypothetical blog from DYING like every other tumblr blog?

The old translation blogs for the EC novels haven't updated in months or years, for example, so unless someone gets ahold of the account info or just starts their own translation to finidh the job we can assume those projects are dead. This reblog blog would ABSOLUTELY end up with the same fate if we tried to do it. It's just not a good idea at all.

Plus, tumblr has a REALLY BAD REPUTATION of unsourced fanart, so whime reposting it to the WIKI may lead to the artist begrudgingly accepting it, reposting it to TUMBLR is guaranteed to upset them. Related, we should double check that everything's sourced correctly as well - reposts from twitter should link back to the original tweet, for example.

If we just move it to another tab on the page this will all be a moot point of course (except the sourcing part), but seriously, tumblr blogs for projects like that don't tend to live very long. Don't do it. The Wiki at least is always actively maintained by SOMEONE, so it's unlikely to just go dead one day, so stuff like that should be done HERE.