suggestion i guess?? [about deleted oekakis]

[van]

[i've seen many people having troubles with this, and have even had an issue with it myself, so i thought i'd bring this up.]
when an oekaki is deleted [or moved to an inaccessible forum], the artist has no way of retrieving it, and i know that most of us don't save everything we draw after we post it. i understand that some drawings are deleted because they are breaking the rules, but what about those infamous invisible rules? or even having a drawing deleted for an unknown reason? naturally, the artist should be able to at least have a warning before their art is deleted so that they have a chance to save it/post it somewhere else, or be PMed a saved copy of it so that they didn't spend all that time wasted on a drawing they might be proud of, never to see it again. i especially think this should be required if it was deleted for breaking a 'rule' they had no knowledge of.

in short, i personally think it should be required [in every case] that the moderator deleting [and not just locking] the oekaki [any oekaki] should be required to either give the artist a chance to save it, or PM them a saved copy.

[nickjr]

Probably not PM; a lot of people have their old drawings deleted, and in some cases, that can be over 50 drawings O.o so probably just a chance to save their drawings would be fine~

[van]

oh, i was talking about if a mod deletes it for rule breaking or whatever. not if someone requests it to be deleted. c: but yeah, i see how that could be a problem.

[Atwood]

Oekakis usually aren't deleted without at least a day's warning so the artist has a chance to fix or save their art, and if they are deleted the artist is typically sent a link to the image so they can still use it. The main place this might not happen is if the Oekaki had to be moved immediately to a separate board, which is generally only the case when something is blatantly inappropriate but can also happen if there's a big argument in the Oekaki's thread that needs to be cleaned out, or if the Oekaki is based on a copyrighted photo and gets a copyright claim put on it. If the Oekaki ends up not being restored to the main board, there's a chance it might get skipped and not be sent to the artist.