I want to bring this up again as an URGENT matter, especially regarding Parsley F's involvement with hololive. Case in point, post #4939364 and post #4939388.
This is the first-ever illustration of HoloJP's newest generation (HoloX) and it got hidden because of Parsley F's contribution (Sakamata Chloe, bottom left), resulting in collateral damage to the other members illustrated as there is no visible original character design to work with.
I propose, at this time, to make amendments to the current banned artist system to allow official works by these banned artists on a case-to-case basis. This had been tackled before (in April 2020) but concerns regarding official art were raised by the site admin himself and the matter since set aside. While we understand Evazion's sentiments that there is danger in allowing official art to be hosted on the site, especially if they're gated content, a case-to-case basis of judging such official art with the active participation of the builders and admins in sorting them out, gives assurance that we will still not infringe on the original copyrights.
To rebuke Iridescent Slime and SkylightCrystal, we will not be doing a lousy job of keeping our word on these artists if they were just asked to produce art for another party that has the better call. In addition, corporations who hold such copyrights will only act on an aggressor party if they:
a. find out about it themselves, or
b. find it out from the artists in question, who may not have the final say in any case.
And another thing to consider is Evazion's statements that a takedown should be blanket to all works under the artist. We have examples (like Noukatu) where they are only given a partial ban for certain reasons. I move to let official art be a reason for exemption based on KyteM's original stated reason.
They will still be banned as per the status quo, but the banned artist tag should only be retained for their other works not recognized by the staff as official art that has been approved for public viewing.
All in all, the system needs a revision because the "it applies to all because we say so and we think so" is not appropriate for the current situation.
If anyone else in Danbooru objects for any reason, discourse here and/or in Discord is welcome. But consider this: would you continue making artists suffer by forcing them to seek out other avenues to grab the official art to obtain references needed to make fanart, where they may be of low quality? At least here, we can provide the full highres content to capture the small details and being of service to concerned and aspiring artists while still honoring our assurances to the affected artists who may complain using DeepL.
Thank you.