Danbooru upload disclaimer

I got hit with the disclaimer that one should not delete pics that one has uploaded, as well as the message that danbooru is open to web spiders and that my name could be traced. I once deleted a picture I've uploaded before the disclaimer, and I'm a bit concerned for my privacy, so I'm wondering how a web spider could trace me after a pic deletion?

I got another message of concern regarding this recently, and I think people shouldn't panic. Don't be overly concerned about the web spider disclaimer - it's just stating the obvious in a more visible way.

Most anything you do online can be googled, and that involves uploading images to danbooru. A site being open to web spiders is opt-out (via robots.txt or whatever else), not opt-in, so odds are most of what you do is saved somewhere.

One thing you can do is change your username, if hillside_moose is something you use everywhere (like, say, your local church volunteer association, I dunno =P) and you don't want it to be openly associated with danbooru.

As for deleted pictures, they still remain on the server. I don't know if deleting them has any impact on their search findability. It's better to disassociate yourself from your account than to delete pictures that are meant for everyone, not just the uploader.

But bottom line is, the internet is not private, and danbooru isn't anything out of the ordinary there. The warning wasn't meant to freak anyone out, just to inform.

This is why I carefully chose a new username when registering here that not only I had never used before, but would have no desire to use elsewhere.

Thanks for the response jxh2154.

As for my Hillside_Moose moniker, it's definitely not an alias I use outside danbooru. To be honest, I thought up the name late at night on a whim just to get into danbooru; it wasn't until I noticed that danbooru didn't have some pics that I thought were gems that I started contributing (lol).

As for the one pic I deleted, it was a duplicate pic of another one that I've uploaded, and I'm OCD when it comes to duplicates, especially when there's a better quality pic. However, after reading the thread about not flagging dupes for deletion (which I think was started by you actually) and this thread, I'll be sure to just parent it.

Hillside_Moose said:
...To be honest, I thought up the name late at night on a whim just to get into danbooru;...

Hehe, that story reminds me exactly of why I have the name I do here.

*sigh* Alas, I've consistenty used the same s/n all around (save for adult swim and semi-neopets), though this mixup now exists for purposes I'd rather not be immediately seen on Google searches. Still have some posts here of my "old" s/n.