Leftybooru Rules and FAQ
Welcome to leftybooru, a booru style imageboard dedicated to serving as a tag-based repository for images related to leftist politics.
Founded on 2015-10-21
Some features of this booru provided by the Gelbooru 0.1.11 software include:
-Posts never expire
-Tag and comment on posts
-Search for tags
-Annotate images with notes
Please check the help pages for further information:
http://lefty.booru.org/help/posts.php
http://lefty.booru.org/help/ratings.php
http://lefty.booru.org/help/forum.php
Admin:
lefty [admin position is locked to this account]
Admin history:
Original admin and founder: 2015-10-21 (No evidence of any activity after this date)
Current admin: 2020-08-18 to present
Roadmap
-Reupload additional content from the temporary backup booru - Done
-Improve CSS, switch to Yotsuba B, add cover image, 404 image etc. - Done
-Add custom catgirl counters - Done
-Standardize tags and implement aliases - Done
-Add proper tags to all "tagme" posts - Done (2020-12-27)
-Add appropriate ratings to all "questionable" posts - On hold as long as captcha is enforced
-Purge duplicate images, spam, and reactionary content which went under the radar - Ongoing (indefinitely)
-TBD
Links to related sites:
Imageboards:
leftypol
you know where it is
GETchan
http://www.getchan.net
/ussr/
http://2ch.hk/ussr/catalog.html
Forums:
/marx/ Forum Edition
http://eregime.org/index.php?showforum=719
Wikis:
Leftypedia
http://wiki.leftypol.org
United Chans Wiki
http://unitedchans.fandom.com
Libraries:
marxists.xyz
http://marxists.xyz
Magazines:
new-multitude
http://newmultitude.org
Site logo made by current admin
Catgirl images used in counters made by @PPDPPL_art
To ensure a well organized booru imageboard for use by all comrades, the following rules and guidelines have been put into place.
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Rules
All images such as artwork, infographics, memes, screencaps, etc. and comments are allowed provided that:
a) it is relevant to the scope of the booru and is not spam.
b) it is not an inferior duplicate of any kind.
c) it is not promoting reactionary politics.
Images and comments that do not fit these criteria should be reported with the appropriate reason.
No spam is allowed anywhere. Spam from a user account may be subject to a ban. Depending on the severity of the situation (raids, bot spam), certain booru functions may be temporarily restricted. At the moment of the most recent edit to this forum post, anonymous posters are allowed to make new posts and creation of new accounts is allowed.
All sitewide rules of the booru.org network which are listed in the TOS apply here. This means real life pornography and loli/lolicon/shota/shotacon (depictions of children in a lewd context) images are prohibited and will be deleted. Accounts posting such images may be warned or banned depending on severity.
Do not abuse the report function by reporting images and comments which do not violate the rules only because you disagree with them. Such reports will be dismissed. The same applies to downvotes. Instead, post a proper response comment to destroy them by using facts and logic.
The downvote function should be used primarily as a way to spoiler NSFW images (particularly the weird ones). Images that are already downvoted as of this post and do not fit this criteria should be upvoted to bring the score to 0. If such an image does actually need to be removed then it should be reported with the appropriate reason.
Clarification: The rules of leftypol.org, GETchan, or any website other than booru.org do not necessarily apply to this booru. This booru is not owned, administrated, or otherwise maintained by any of the moderators or administrators of leftypol.org, GETchan, or any other imageboard.
Tagging Guidelines
Tags are required as without them images cannot be found. Remember to tag every image with at least 5 good tags while uploading. If it is an artwork, tag the artist name as well. Tag should be correct and to the point, make sure it is accurate to the subject matter.
If an image was uploaded without at least 5 tags and thus has a "tagme" tag, properly tag that image and remove the "tagme" tag.
Do not remove tags from images which are duplicates. Report such images and if they are found to be duplicates they will be removed. Absolutely no one is to remove every single tag from an image for any reason.
In every tag with a dash "-", use underscores "_" instead. This to prevent possible unwanted combinations of different tags in search results as everything after the dash "-" is interpreted by the search software as a different tag.
Sometimes, two tags can mean the same thing. So to allow consistent search results aliases are implemented. If an alias for a certain tag is missing from the alias table, please enter a suggestion for it on that page.
Please note that alias suggestions with non-English Latin letters, any of the HTML reserved characters, or HTML special characters are always either non-functional or unable to be activated. So please limit the content of your alias suggestions to (preferably lowercase) standard alphanumeric characters and underscores "_".
If the image contains non-English text, please add a "translation_request" tag alongside a tag for the language (i.e "russian_text"). If you can actually translate that text, please consider adding a note (and for benefit of those not using Javascript, a comment) with the translation and replacing the "translation_request" tag with "translated".
The name(s) of people who are depicted in images should generally be tagged in the format of "firstname_lastname" (i.e. "karl_marx"). If a person depicted is a major figure of a particular political tendency, then tag that tendency as well (i.e. "maoism", "anarcho_communism", "fascism")
Images related to political leaders should have country tags (i.e. "soviet_union", "germany", "united_states"). In certain cases country tags should be added alongside regional tags (i.e. "west_asia", "latin_america"), and/or historical tags (i.e.: "russian_empire", "weimar_germany").
Screencap images should have tags for the website or board they are from (i.e. "/leftypol/" "/pol/" "twitter").
Unedited photographs should be tagged "photo", and additionally "monochrome" if they are not in color.
Since there is no feature in this booru software for automatic tag implications, please observe already tagged images for established trends and tag future images accordingly.
Character Tags
Images of fictional characters should have: general tags (i.e. "black_hair", "red_eyes",), artist tags with a bracket tag suffix (i.e. "catgirl_drawfriend_(artist)"), character tags (i.e. "alunya"), and series name tags (i.e. "political_ideology_catgirls").
Do not add bracket tag suffixes for series or characters, unless there is a possibility of confusion with unrelated tags.
If some of the depicted characters don't belong to an existing series and are created by the artist, add the tag "original_character".
If you don't know the artist / character / series, please add tag(s) "artist_request" / "character_request" / "series_request".
Meta Tags
Images within these parameters should be tagged accordingly after they are uploaded:
"lowres" : width AND height below 500px, and not in animated gif format
"highres" : width above 1600px AND height above 1200px
"absurdres" : width above 3200px AND height above 2400px
"long_image" : height is more than 3x the width
"very_long_image" : height is more than 9x the width
"wide_image" : width is more than 3x the height
"1:1_aspect_ratio" : width is equal to height
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FAQ
lefty.booru is the original booru used by leftist imageboards since 2015, however the original admin soon disappeared and the booru was abandoned without moderation for years. This lead to it being locked by the booru.org administration in early 2020. In this situation anonymous posting was blocked and the creation of new accounts was also blocked. Following this, a /leftypol/ mod created leftypics.booru which was used as a replacement for a few months.
This situation continued until August 2020, when an anonymous poster (who had previously made an account on lefty.booru) requested control of lefty.booru from the booru.org administration. This poster was given control of the booru through its admin account and reopened it for posting.
It was removed since booru.org TOS strictly does not allow it. You will have to find it elsewhere.
The number on the front page is the number of active posts. The post number on posts themselves is higher than that because of deleted spam posts.
The features of the booru are limited to what is available in Gelbooru 0.1.11, which is the latest free version of Gelbooru used by booru.org boorus. This can only be changed by the top level site administration, who say that this is not feasible right now. The main thing that can be changed now is the CSS stylesheet which controls the appearance of the booru.
They were put there by the top level administration of the booru.org network to pay for the servers. If you want to help get rid of them for everyone, please donate to booru.org patreon.
http://www.patreon.com/booru
Because there was no moderation for most of the boorus existence and it was not yet noticed. Since you have noticed it, use the report function.
Reporting an image or comment adds the content in question to a queue visible only to the admin and moderator(s) who view the content and determine if any rules have been broken.
Either it was a duplicate, it was spam, was irrelevant to the scope of the booru, or otherwise violated the rules.
If you feel that the decision of deletion needs to be reviewed, please post about it on the booru feedback thread on leftypol.org/meta
Yes, but the superior version of that image must be uploaded first.
The top level administration of booru.org implemented this on every booru in the booru.org network in an attempt to stop automated spam. They have said that they are working on new software for the boorus to negate the need for a captcha.
None.
Founded on 2015-10-21
Some features of this booru provided by the Gelbooru 0.1.11 software include:
-Posts never expire
-Tag and comment on posts
-Search for tags
-Annotate images with notes
Please check the help pages for further information:
http://lefty.booru.org/help/posts.php
http://lefty.booru.org/help/ratings.php
http://lefty.booru.org/help/forum.php
Admin:
lefty [admin position is locked to this account]
Admin history:
Original admin and founder: 2015-10-21 (No evidence of any activity after this date)
Current admin: 2020-08-18 to present
Roadmap
-Reupload additional content from the temporary backup booru - Done
-Improve CSS, switch to Yotsuba B, add cover image, 404 image etc. - Done
-Add custom catgirl counters - Done
-Standardize tags and implement aliases - Done
-Add proper tags to all "tagme" posts - Done (2020-12-27)
-Add appropriate ratings to all "questionable" posts - On hold as long as captcha is enforced
-Purge duplicate images, spam, and reactionary content which went under the radar - Ongoing (indefinitely)
-TBD
Links to related sites:
Imageboards:
leftypol
you know where it is
GETchan
http://www.getchan.net
/ussr/
http://2ch.hk/ussr/catalog.html
Forums:
/marx/ Forum Edition
http://eregime.org/index.php?showforum=719
Wikis:
Leftypedia
http://wiki.leftypol.org
United Chans Wiki
http://unitedchans.fandom.com
Libraries:
marxists.xyz
http://marxists.xyz
Magazines:
new-multitude
http://newmultitude.org
Site logo made by current admin
Catgirl images used in counters made by @PPDPPL_art
To ensure a well organized booru imageboard for use by all comrades, the following rules and guidelines have been put into place.
------------------------------------------------------------
Rules
All images such as artwork, infographics, memes, screencaps, etc. and comments are allowed provided that:
a) it is relevant to the scope of the booru and is not spam.
b) it is not an inferior duplicate of any kind.
c) it is not promoting reactionary politics.
Images and comments that do not fit these criteria should be reported with the appropriate reason.
No spam is allowed anywhere. Spam from a user account may be subject to a ban. Depending on the severity of the situation (raids, bot spam), certain booru functions may be temporarily restricted. At the moment of the most recent edit to this forum post, anonymous posters are allowed to make new posts and creation of new accounts is allowed.
All sitewide rules of the booru.org network which are listed in the TOS apply here. This means real life pornography and loli/lolicon/shota/shotacon (depictions of children in a lewd context) images are prohibited and will be deleted. Accounts posting such images may be warned or banned depending on severity.
Do not abuse the report function by reporting images and comments which do not violate the rules only because you disagree with them. Such reports will be dismissed. The same applies to downvotes. Instead, post a proper response comment to destroy them by using facts and logic.
The downvote function should be used primarily as a way to spoiler NSFW images (particularly the weird ones). Images that are already downvoted as of this post and do not fit this criteria should be upvoted to bring the score to 0. If such an image does actually need to be removed then it should be reported with the appropriate reason.
Clarification: The rules of leftypol.org, GETchan, or any website other than booru.org do not necessarily apply to this booru. This booru is not owned, administrated, or otherwise maintained by any of the moderators or administrators of leftypol.org, GETchan, or any other imageboard.
Tagging Guidelines
Tags are required as without them images cannot be found. Remember to tag every image with at least 5 good tags while uploading. If it is an artwork, tag the artist name as well. Tag should be correct and to the point, make sure it is accurate to the subject matter.
If an image was uploaded without at least 5 tags and thus has a "tagme" tag, properly tag that image and remove the "tagme" tag.
Do not remove tags from images which are duplicates. Report such images and if they are found to be duplicates they will be removed. Absolutely no one is to remove every single tag from an image for any reason.
In every tag with a dash "-", use underscores "_" instead. This to prevent possible unwanted combinations of different tags in search results as everything after the dash "-" is interpreted by the search software as a different tag.
Sometimes, two tags can mean the same thing. So to allow consistent search results aliases are implemented. If an alias for a certain tag is missing from the alias table, please enter a suggestion for it on that page.
Please note that alias suggestions with non-English Latin letters, any of the HTML reserved characters, or HTML special characters are always either non-functional or unable to be activated. So please limit the content of your alias suggestions to (preferably lowercase) standard alphanumeric characters and underscores "_".
If the image contains non-English text, please add a "translation_request" tag alongside a tag for the language (i.e "russian_text"). If you can actually translate that text, please consider adding a note (and for benefit of those not using Javascript, a comment) with the translation and replacing the "translation_request" tag with "translated".
The name(s) of people who are depicted in images should generally be tagged in the format of "firstname_lastname" (i.e. "karl_marx"). If a person depicted is a major figure of a particular political tendency, then tag that tendency as well (i.e. "maoism", "anarcho_communism", "fascism")
Images related to political leaders should have country tags (i.e. "soviet_union", "germany", "united_states"). In certain cases country tags should be added alongside regional tags (i.e. "west_asia", "latin_america"), and/or historical tags (i.e.: "russian_empire", "weimar_germany").
Screencap images should have tags for the website or board they are from (i.e. "/leftypol/" "/pol/" "twitter").
Unedited photographs should be tagged "photo", and additionally "monochrome" if they are not in color.
Since there is no feature in this booru software for automatic tag implications, please observe already tagged images for established trends and tag future images accordingly.
Character Tags
Images of fictional characters should have: general tags (i.e. "black_hair", "red_eyes",), artist tags with a bracket tag suffix (i.e. "catgirl_drawfriend_(artist)"), character tags (i.e. "alunya"), and series name tags (i.e. "political_ideology_catgirls").
Do not add bracket tag suffixes for series or characters, unless there is a possibility of confusion with unrelated tags.
If some of the depicted characters don't belong to an existing series and are created by the artist, add the tag "original_character".
If you don't know the artist / character / series, please add tag(s) "artist_request" / "character_request" / "series_request".
Meta Tags
Images within these parameters should be tagged accordingly after they are uploaded:
"lowres" : width AND height below 500px, and not in animated gif format
"highres" : width above 1600px AND height above 1200px
"absurdres" : width above 3200px AND height above 2400px
"long_image" : height is more than 3x the width
"very_long_image" : height is more than 9x the width
"wide_image" : width is more than 3x the height
"1:1_aspect_ratio" : width is equal to height
------------------------------------------------------------
FAQ
>What is the difference between leftypics.booru and lefty.booru?
lefty.booru is the original booru used by leftist imageboards since 2015, however the original admin soon disappeared and the booru was abandoned without moderation for years. This lead to it being locked by the booru.org administration in early 2020. In this situation anonymous posting was blocked and the creation of new accounts was also blocked. Following this, a /leftypol/ mod created leftypics.booru which was used as a replacement for a few months.
This situation continued until August 2020, when an anonymous poster (who had previously made an account on lefty.booru) requested control of lefty.booru from the booru.org administration. This poster was given control of the booru through its admin account and reopened it for posting.
>What happened to all the loli/Rodina lewds?!
It was removed since booru.org TOS strictly does not allow it. You will have to find it elsewhere.
>Why do the numbers of posts and the number on the front page not match?
The number on the front page is the number of active posts. The post number on posts themselves is higher than that because of deleted spam posts.
>Can you add x feature which is present in another booru?
The features of the booru are limited to what is available in Gelbooru 0.1.11, which is the latest free version of Gelbooru used by booru.org boorus. This can only be changed by the top level site administration, who say that this is not feasible right now. The main thing that can be changed now is the CSS stylesheet which controls the appearance of the booru.
>Why are there porn ads on some of the boorus in this network?
They were put there by the top level administration of the booru.org network to pay for the servers. If you want to help get rid of them for everyone, please donate to booru.org patreon.
http://www.patreon.com/booru
>Why are you allowing this reactionary/spam post on the booru?!
Because there was no moderation for most of the boorus existence and it was not yet noticed. Since you have noticed it, use the report function.
>How do reports work?
Reporting an image or comment adds the content in question to a queue visible only to the admin and moderator(s) who view the content and determine if any rules have been broken.
>Why was my post deleted?!
Either it was a duplicate, it was spam, was irrelevant to the scope of the booru, or otherwise violated the rules.
If you feel that the decision of deletion needs to be reviewed, please post about it on the booru feedback thread on leftypol.org/meta
>Can I report an image so I can upload a better version of that image?
Yes, but the superior version of that image must be uploaded first.
>Why is there a captcha?
The top level administration of booru.org implemented this on every booru in the booru.org network in an attempt to stop automated spam. They have said that they are working on new software for the boorus to negate the need for a captcha.
>Which side in X board split controls the booru?
None.