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.

Banned users

• Can't edit anything until their bans are expired.

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 and favoriting.
• 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.

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 | 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.