April 10th: The bill has been vetoed!
April 2nd: The politicians in Arizona are about to sign into law a bill that would mandate sites like e621 to either impose age verification on all users or be at a risk of lawsuits. Such system would be required to go through third party vendors, who in turn must go through a government database to verify every user's age. This is not only a major violation of privacy, but it also opens up a very real danger of identity theft through phishing schemes and other methods, not to mention that we would not be able to control any of that information to make sure it is permanently deleted after age verification is complete.
Unfortunately, Arizona is the state out of which e621 operates, which means that this law will almost certainly affect us if it is to pass. If want to help us ensure that this site can continue to serve you without being required to know who you are, please ask the Arizona governor to veto this bill.
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For some further information on what the bill does have a look at https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/bill/arizona-hb-2586/
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acat69
MemberIs there any difference between this and the parent? I can't tell...
user 157286
MemberHigher filesize but same resolution. Flagging the old one because as far as I remember e621 judges on filesize over resolution. This one may be ever so slightly better due to a lack of artifacting.
Mairo
JanitorAs for filesize and resolution, completely and utterly false. Only time I look at those values is with video files, but even then I usually focus on bitrate instead of filesize and frame rate. Filesize is just more simpler for layman than bitrate when trying to get point across with animations.
What is preferred is quality. So because of that, highest resolution PNG file is usually most preferred one as there's most details and PNG is lossless fileformat. This is also why sometimes bit larger resolution file can be deleted over smaller one if the smaller is PNG and larger JPG; because increase in resolution may not justify the details loss with compression. As PNG is lossless, this may seem like the reason for deletion was filesize, but that's usually irrelevant information.
It's the same as if you want to keep your music in .flac files instead of .mp3. It's not about the filesize, but the quality that filesize brings on table, flac being lossless.
In any case, hope this cleared this up a bit. If you are unsure which version is inferior, flagging either one usually helps as it still brings it to staffs attention and if the person handling the flag knows what they are doing, they'll reverse it another way around if necessary.
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