I did DNP with them years ago. Even before e621 formed, the parent company (Dragonfruit/Bad Dragon) was so toxic and criminal that I wanted nothing to do with them; many of the existing negative stereotypes about this community stem from scandals their senior staff were involved in.

Hell, there's a website dedicated to tracking their crimes and ethics issues.

Last i checked they don't do DNPs for characters, if that changed i'd love to know.

I def recommend it. If you're not happy with it, just send them a message, have your stuff taken down and explain why it is and once they've done it it's done.

I think depressing the ai from the main site is a good thing to do so it does not become like deviantart where 99% that anyone sees is ai.

How do you think the tag system can be bad? I think it works quote well but I don't go there very often

Seperating the AI art is better than mixing it in with the actual art, but that doesn't make it good, just less bad.

As far as the tags, the main issue I have is that the tags for 'male' and 'female' are strictly and exclusively applied to cismasc and cisfem characters that have the quote unquote 'right' combination of body parts, otherwise they're tagged as andromorph/gynomorph/'ambiguous gender'/etc. You can't opt in/out of this, it's universally applied by policy, and at best you can apply to get a 'female_(lore)' tag for your character.

I think a better solution would be to make 'male' and 'female' inclusive tags and then have 'gynomorph'/'cis female'/etc be additional tags applied, like how 'canid' is inclusive of both wolves and dogs. But honestly whether or not there is a better solution, the existing tagging policy still sucks.

Isn't cis-male/female just male/female? I don't understand all the gender bull personally. I don't see a problem with the tags?

Personally I don't see an issue with the "tag what you see" policy. The character/art piece owners can always correct the tags themselves if they bother to go on the site.

I kinda lapsed in posting to the site because I CBA to do it through postybird - I'm a stickler for tagging properly and using as many tags as applicable - , and even less so doing it manually.

As for the e6ai site, I don't care much for it. It's a good thing that they separated it out from the main site though. AI is here, deal with it.

As for adding your characters to the DNP list, you do you. They're your characters. Though if you are going to go down that route, it'll only be fair to mention it to any artist you commission/co-bidders on a multi slot YCH. While it hasn't happened to me yet, I'd be very pissed if I wasn't allowed to post a piece of art which I paid for on any site that I like - as long as the artist is fine with it.

e6's tagging system is honestly the only good thing it has going for it. If you think of "tag what you see" as a sex-targetting rather than gender-defining you're honestly better off. Because if you're just an average joe browsing through a porn site looking for a specific sex on display (because of sexual preferences or trying to find references, ...) and get to see the exact opposite because "that's what my character identifies as" is only going to confuse the user who probably doesn't care what a character identifies as, because if we follow your logic, searching for "solo+female" should give you this post as a potential result.

They even added the "trans_*(lore)" type tags if you really care for it.

But in the end, the world of pornography has always been objectifying, sexist and whatever else you want to call it, and e6 has built itself on its tagging and blacklisting system, which was specifically made to sort and filter through what people want. I'm not trying to dismiss your perspective on the matter, just trying to show you why it is the way it is.