Seriously, what's the deal with voyeuristic fan art in the wiki?

Why is everyone overreacting to a simple question?  He stated it, then backed it up with pictures.  He's not condemning the people who post it, he is just saying he'd prefer it if the extra fan pictures weren't there.  Alot of you people need to get off your high horse and quit defending it like its last piece of freedom on earth.  You don't need every little thing as an excuse to tell people off and belittle them.

There's really no reason for fan art to be on the site. I say, get rid of all of it.

 
I think fan art should be allowed. I just think that there should be a mechanism in place in order to filter images of... sub par quality and/or class. Our community cannot mature as long as we entertain the worst parts of it.

 
Having standards doesn't make someone a prude, seriously.

Sorry if I missed a memo but I thought the wiki picture gallery was not a place to add your masturbatory content.
  

And people talk shit about Anime Vice's image galleries.

If it makes you feel better, attractive women have pages with a ridiculous amount of modeling pictures.  
 
http://www.giantbomb.com/gemma-atkinson/72-90210/images/

I'm not sure all fan art should go as long as it is in good taste. Which even the rules specify; the rules aren't being followed.

I see absolutely no problem with this.

I think if it isn't official information about said character/game/theme, it should not be in the wiki. Shit gets confusing.

Honestly, I think the real problem is that there are far too many extraneous pictures in the wiki...I think some people really like to upload anything and everything they can find that relates to a particular game/character/concept/whatever.

" We're no Anime Vice, but I agree that all fan art should be abolished from our wiki pages.  Really, they serve no purpose. "

I don't see anything wrong with it, especially considering some of the art you would consider voyeuristic is actual official art...

I don't see fan art leaving the wiki any time soon.  That being said, more work needs to be done by the users to ensure that the galleries for each page are properly sorted and organized so that it's easy to distinguish fan art entries from official art.

I don't see why it can't just automatically default to real art, and make fan art an option or somethin (I have no idea about anything, so excuse me if I'm wrong)

I think fan art should be submitted to a panel of judges first to determine if it's high quality, or at least decent enough to get on here. Otherwise it'll just be a buildup of things like that.

It is kinda weird how much bad/creepy DeviantArt stuff has infiltrated the wiki. You don't have to go very far into the image gallery of any given popular female character to find some suggestive, usually poorly drawn images.

You know what really needs to be banned?  Video games!  Leads kids to waste their time when they could be tending to the fields!  Also leads to immoral behavior when they could be attending church!  I say we ban video games altogether!

" I don't see why it can't just automatically default to real art, and make fan art an option or somethin (I have no idea about anything, so excuse me if I'm wrong) "

" From the site FAQ:

Image upload best practices

Do not submit images with watermarks! Submit high rez images under 1 meg in size whenever possible.

• Images can include box art, screenshots, concept art, fan art, and more. When uploading images, we strongly encourage users to either associate their images with an appropriate gallery, or create a new gallery when necessary.
• Avoid adding images tagged or watermarked with other sites' URLs.
• Nudity is not allowed in the message boards. Hentai or nude images are only allowed in the wiki or the wiki's gallery IF it is official art from the publisher ( So no hentai fan art in the wiki or wiki galleries ). Hentai, unofficial art and unofficial hentai are allowed on profile image galleries.

 

Fan art is explicitly called out as acceptable. Some of the stuff on the site is really pushing it though. Also, I demand a fight between Killjoi and Newten. Two mods enter, one mod leaves! "

I like a lot of fan art. I don't care much for naked Lolis, but if it's well crafted fan art, then I'm all for it. It's a part of the games community, and I think it's important to recognize fan art. It's not crudely drawn or anything, so just don't look at it.

Clearly pornographic fan art is obviously not allowed.  The problem seems to be with some people's definition of "pornographic".  For example, the second picture in the OP.  While mature in nature, I would not call it pornographic.  If there were clearly visible naughty-bits and/or they were involved in a sexual act, that would be different.  Also, not all fan art is bad or pornographic.  Take these two from the Persona 4 fan art gallery for example.  Hell, the second one almost looks official.

Exhibit 1  Exhibit 2 

Carpet banning/deleting all fan art is not the answer.  If you think something is too mature or pornographic and is not official art, PM the mods.  Otherwise, there are gallery filters for a reason.  If you want to avoid fan art that badly, use them.

" @LordAndrew said:

" From the site FAQ:

Image upload best practices

Do not submit images with watermarks! Submit high rez images under 1 meg in size whenever possible.

• Images can include box art, screenshots, concept art, fan art, and more. When uploading images, we strongly encourage users to either associate their images with an appropriate gallery, or create a new gallery when necessary.
• Avoid adding images tagged or watermarked with other sites' URLs.
• Nudity is not allowed in the message boards. Hentai or nude images are only allowed in the wiki or the wiki's gallery IF it is official art from the publisher ( So no hentai fan art in the wiki or wiki galleries ). Hentai, unofficial art and unofficial hentai are allowed on profile image galleries.

 

Fan art is explicitly called out as acceptable. Some of the stuff on the site is really pushing it though. Also, I demand a fight between Killjoi and Newten. Two mods enter, one mod leaves! "

Yes, but in that same rule set it says that pornographic images that are NOT official game art are prohibited, therefore, pornographic fan art should be disallowed. "

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"or is it going to be a wild west style "anything goes 'cept for nipples" database? "

I'M OFFENDED THAT YOU'RE OFFENDED.

" @LordAndrew said:

" From the site FAQ:

Image upload best practices

Do not submit images with watermarks! Submit high rez images under 1 meg in size whenever possible.

• Images can include box art, screenshots, concept art, fan art, and more. When uploading images, we strongly encourage users to either associate their images with an appropriate gallery, or create a new gallery when necessary.
• Avoid adding images tagged or watermarked with other sites' URLs.
• Nudity is not allowed in the message boards. Hentai or nude images are only allowed in the wiki or the wiki's gallery IF it is official art from the publisher ( So no hentai fan art in the wiki or wiki galleries ). Hentai, unofficial art and unofficial hentai are allowed on profile image galleries.

 

Fan art is explicitly called out as acceptable. Some of the stuff on the site is really pushing it though. Also, I demand a fight between Killjoi and Newten. Two mods enter, one mod leaves! "

Yes, but in that same rule set it says that pornographic images that are NOT official game art are prohibited, therefore, pornographic fan art should be disallowed. "

Keep fan art to lists. Attach them to wiki pages. Problem sorted

Just to expand on what mracoon said earlier in this topic....

• If unofficial/fan-art features nude/naked tits/fanny/cock/balls then it's not allowed to be uploaded to a wiki page's gallery. 

" Someone add this or the uncensored ones (I do not want to google it) to the Brumak page. "

This site needs an 18+ warning and a content filter so that soccer moms won't band together and shut Giant Bomb down.

Check out Lara Croft's " fan art" section for instance. 
This is *after* I had decided to remove most of the duplicates, fetish art, trace art, weird anatomy art and bad printer/ kindergarten quality images.

Yeah, I agree that there becomes a point where fanart can be rather graphic.
 
If it's going to stay here for whatever reason, it'd be nice if it was split off from the rest of the fanart so people who want to avoid it can do so imo.

" Check out Lara Croft's " fan art" section for instance.  This is *after* I had decided to remove most of the duplicates, fetish art, trace art, weird anatomy art and bad printer/ kindergarten quality images. "

Whoa, man. Not Safe For Work. Label stuff like this next time. I wasn't expecting a screen-filling picture like that. 
 
And yeah, people need to stop putting shit like this into random game galleries. You'll be flipping through Mass Effect images and come across some horribly-drawn pseudo-nude Tali. 
 
Yet another reason why the wiki pages need a history viewer.

" You are not helping by posting the pictures here.  "

" We're no Anime Vice, but I agree that all fan art should be abolished from our wiki pages.  Really, they serve no purpose. "

" Image galleries were worth mega points at launch, and more people can click Upload than type something original. That won't change. "

In my mind, those pictures exist here because people want them some wiki points, so ANYTHING related to the game in any way whatsoever gets added.

I thought this site was all about the naked cartoon pussy?

" Yet another reason why the wiki pages need a history viewer. "

Oh, pervs!

TBH, I don't really understand fanart's place on GB either, I think it's a mess.

Cartoon tits...yey

Not surprising, there's a huge amount of immature users that have to hypersexualize every female character. It's fucking annoying.