help:users (locked)

This page serves to describe the differences between the various user levels on Danbooru.

Browsing Differences

Permissions

Restricted users

• Can't edit anything until they verify their email address. A user is restricted if they signup using a VPN or proxy.

Members and above can:

• Upload posts (subject to their upload limit).
• Favorite and vote on posts.
• Edit posts and tags.
• Flag posts (up to 5 per 3 days).
• Appeal posts (each appeal costs 3 upload slots).
• Create and edit pools.
• Create, edit, and delete wiki pages and artist entries.
• Create, edit, and delete their own comments and forum posts.
• Change the category of tags with less than 50 posts.
• Create, reject, and edit their own Bulk Update Requests.
• Send and receive DMails.
• Edit their user settings.
• Change their username (at most once a week).
• View username change history.

Gold and above can:

• Create feedbacks to other users
• Use the mode menu in the sidebar for quicker tagging, favoriting, and upvoting.
• Have private favorites, favgroups, and upvotes.
• View the forum activity indicator. The "Forum" link in the navbar will become italicized when there are unread posts.

Builders and above can:

• Lock and unlock wiki pages.
• Delete and undelete pools.
• Change the category of any tag with less than 1000 posts.
• Approve alias and rename bulk update requests for artist tags under 200 posts.

Contributors and above can:

• Upload an unlimited amount of posts without being subject to the moderation queue (their posts are automatically approved). Posts can still voluntarily be sent through the modqueue.
• Appeal an unlimited number of posts.

Approvers and above can:

• Approve and undelete posts (excluding their own uploads and posts they previously approved).
• Delete posts.
• Move favorites from deleted posts to their parent post.
• Ban and unban posts.
• Flag posts without limit.

Moderators and above can:

• Promote or demote users (up to Approver level).
• View the IP and session history of other users.
• Ban users, IP addresses, and IP ranges.
• Change the name of other users (Builder and below).
• Edit or delete user feedbacks (except ones given to them).
• View who voted on comments.
• View or search who flagged a post (except on their own uploads).
• Replace the image on a post with a different file.
• Edit, delete, or sticky (prevent hiding due to downvotes) comments.
• Edit or delete forum posts.
• Delete, pin, or lock/unlock forum threads.

Admins can:

• Promote or demote users (up to Moderator level).
• Approve, edit, or reject bulk update requests.
• Expunge (permanently delete from the site) posts.
• Change the category of any tag.
• View who voted on posts.
• Ban or unban artist tags.
• Approve any post any number of times.
• Create site news banners.

Getting promoted

• Member - Anyone can sign up for a free member account.
• Gold - Buy an account upgrade for $20 (one-time fee) | Currently unavailable. See topic #21157.
• Platinum - Buy an account upgrade for $40(No longer available for upgrade) or win a Platinum upgrade raffle. Raffles occur every few months on the forums.

To advance to a higher user level, you must be promoted by a Moderator or Admin. The following are general guidelines on how to get promoted:

• Builder - Make a large number of improvements to the site, such as by uploading, translating, tagging, contributing to forum discussions or anything else that is helpful to other users.
• Contributor - Contribute a large number of high-quality uploads. It is important to have few deleted uploads (the usual case is under 5% of the total uploads submitted in the last few months).
• Approver - Have an excellent record of high quality uploads, with very few deleted. Approver promotions typically happen a few times a year, depending on the overall size of the modqueue and the number of currently active approvers, and only a handful of users are picked each time.