help:users
This page serves to describe the differences between the various user levels on Danbooru.
Browsing Differences
[table]
[thead]
[tr]
[th]Feature[/th]
[th]No Account[/th]
[th]Member[/th]
[th]Gold[/th]
[th]Platinum[/th]
[th]Builder[/th]
[/tr]
[/thead]
[tbody]
[tr]
[td]View censored_tags[/td]
[td]x[/td]
[td]x[/td]
[td]✓[/td]
[td]✓[/td]
[td]✓[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Max tags per search[/td]
[td]2[/td]
[td]2[/td]
[td]6[/td]
[td]No Limit[/td]
[td]No Limit[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Max pages per search[/td]
[td]1000[/td]
[td]1000[/td]
[td]5000[/td]
[td]5000[/td]
[td]5000[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Max search timeout[/td]
[td]3s[/td]
[td]3s[/td]
[td]6s[/td]
[td]9s[/td]
[td]9s[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Max saved_searches[/td]
[td]-[/td]
[td]250[/td]
[td]1,000[/td]
[td]1,000[/td]
[td]No Limit[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Max favgroups[/td]
[td]-[/td]
[td]10[/td]
[td]No Limit[/td]
[td]No Limit[/td]
[td]No Limit[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]API_regen_rate[/td]
[td]-[/td]
[td]1/s[/td]
[td]4/s[/td]
[td]4/s[/td]
[td]4/s[/td]
[/tr]
[/tbody]
[/table]
Permissions
h6. Restricted users
* Can't edit anything until they verify their email address. A user is restricted if they signup using a VPN or proxy.
h6. 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.
h6. 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.
h6. 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.
h6. 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.
h6. 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.
h6. 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.
h6. 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.
h4#getting-promoted. Getting promoted
* Member - Anyone can "sign up":/users/new for a free member account.
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.