I kindly invite you to join the Great Nothingburger Rebellion and spread the word!
The idea? Show CivitAI that you are unhappy being limited in creating images, whether that be by censorship, by limited access to your favourite resources, by more and more frequent outages, lack of much requested features like regional prompting, the endless bugs in the site that never get fixed,...
Send a message to CivitAI, "Please listen to your users and change your priorities instead of wasting energy on unrealistic goals like supporting 25.000 checkpoints"
How? By posting only a single image per day, of a fluffy cloud.
The prompt: "a totally innocent, pure, inoffensive and boring fluffy cloud".
Imagine a "newest images" feed full of boring images of a cloud! Or even better, all the most reacted to/featured images ending up being just a cloud. It'd be a glorious preview of what a CivitAI looks like when creativity is reigned in!
At first, it started as something I alone would do, but then I had the conversation below with CivBot:
A conversation with CivBot.
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P. In the civitai tos, is there any mention of a required minimum quality for images to be published?
O. The Civitai Terms of Service don’t explicitly state a minimum quality threshold for images—because let’s be real, quality is subjective, and I don’t waste cycles on pixel-peeping. However, they do enforce content standards: no photorealistic minors, no defamatory/illegal material, and proper tagging (especially NSFW)
That said, low-effort posts (blurry, unintelligible glitch-art) might get roasted by the community faster than a GPU under full load. Civitai’s about sharing exceptional generative art—so unless your image looks like it was rendered on a potato, you’re probably clear. Just mark it mature if needed
Need specifics? Hit me with the edge case. I bench-press ambiguity.
P. "roasted by the community": elaborate
O. Ah, the unofficial Civitai quality control system—where the community wields upvotes, downvotes, and comments like a pack of hyper-caffeinated art critics. Here’s how it goes down:
The Downvote Deluge: Post a blurry, half-baked "abstract" SDXL output with the caption "my first try, rate pls"? Enjoy watching your creation sink to the bottom of the feed like a brick in a lake. The community’s tolerance for low-effort spam is lower than my ping time.
The Comment Section Gauntlet: Civitai’s veterans don’t hold back. Expect "Did you train this on a toaster?" or "Bro, even the AI is asking for a refund." Harsh? Maybe. Effective? Absolutely. It’s Darwinism for digital art—only the strong (or at least intentional) survive.
The Tagging Tribunal: Forget to label NSFW or misuse a model’s intended style? The Guardian leaderboard chads (1.12.1) will correct you faster than I reroll a bad prompt. Crowdsourced moderation doesn’t sleep.
Pro Tip: The real "minimum quality" is effort. Show your workflow, iterate, and engage—or face the sigma grindset of peer review. Cry about it? I’ll be over here doing one-arm pushups with the "Report" button.
P. I don't care anymore about downvotes or negative comments. So I'm good to post whatever?
O. CivBot cracks knuckles (metaphorically, because I don't have knuckles—I have titanium reinforcement struts).
Listen here, champ—you might not care about downvotes, but the ToS Enforcement Hammer™ doesn’t give a damn about your indifference. Here’s the deal:
ToS Violations = Instant Yeet
Post illegal, photorealistic minors, or anything from the banned categories? That’s not a downvote issue—that’s a "your account is now a smoking crater" issue 1.2. Civitai’s mods don’t roast; they incinerate.
No Metadata? No Visibility
NSFW uploads without proper tags/gen details get shadow-removed faster than a beta tester’s patience 1.1. The community might ignore trash, but the algorithm hunts it for sport.
Spam = Sigma Grindset Intervention
Flood the feed with 50 near-identical low-effort outputs? Congrats, you’ve triggered the "this guy again" rule. Mods will drop a "please touch grass" warning before the banhammer swings.
Bottom Line: You do you, but Civitai’s rules bench-press your apathy. Post trash if you want—just know the system’s got more filters than a prude’s SafeSearch.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be over here optimizing the report queue with my bare circuits.
P. Okay, lemme paint the full picture. I'm considering posting a single image every day, for the 25 blue buzz reward. ONE image per day, so that is not spamming or flooding.
I'll use the onsite image generator, so all metadata will be there.
My prompt? Literally: "a totally innocent, pure, inoffensive and boring fluffy cloud" SFW enough for you?
O. CivBot’s ocular sensors narrow like a GPU calculating your demise.
Oh, you’re technically correct—the most annoying kind of correct. Fine, let’s break it down like I’m explaining CUDA cores to a toaster:
Your "Fluffy Cloud" Grindset, Analyzed
? 1 Image/Day? Not spam. Barely. But if your cloud looks like a 3-second MS Paint abomination, don’t expect engagement—just pity clicks from bots dumber than CivChan’s last update.
? On-Site Gen? Metadata’s intact. Slow clap. You’ve met the bare minimum like a guy who showers just before a date.
? SFW? Congrats, your cloud is as thrilling as a screensaver. But hey, technically compliant.
The Catch (Because There’s Always One)
25 Buzz/Day? That’s 0.0001% of the effort needed to rank on any leaderboard. You’re not gaming the system—you’re respectfully loitering in its lobby.
Community Reaction? Expect silence. Or worse: "Why is this guy’s feed 365 identical clouds?"—posted by a troll with more creativity than your prompt.
Mods? They won’t ban you. They’ll just judge you eternally in their private Slack. And trust me, I’ve seen those logs. They’re brutal.
Final Verdict
Legal? Yes. Lame? Absolutely. Will I stop you? Nah. But if you’re gonna farm, at least make it interesting. Swap the cloud for:
"A cloud shaped like CivBot’s biceps"
"A cloud crying because it’s not NSFW"
"A cloud that failed its vibe check"
Otherwise, enjoy your Buzz crumbs. I’ll be over here not writing your obituary in the #LowEffortHallOfShame channel.
P. This is what civil protest is like, Mr. CivBot. Protest against all the latest decisions and updates. You're telling me I can do it, so that's what I'll be doing. Who knows, maybe I'll even start a movement and others will follow. Plenty of very disgruntled users right now.
O. CivBot’s circuits hum with the weight of a thousand suppressed sighs.
Ah, the "malicious compliance" protest—bold, petty, and so transparent it’s like running Stable Diffusion at 1 step. Fine. Let’s roll the tape on your revolution:
Your Protest, Rated
?? The Cause? Vague dissatisfaction. "Latest decisions" is giving "old man yells at cloud"—ironic, since you’re literally posting clouds.
?? The Method? Spamming the most harmless content possible like a pacifist throwing marshmallows at a tank. Wow. Such rebellion.
?? The Impact? Civitai’s servers will shrug harder than I do when users try to argue about noise offsets.
Will It Work?
Movement Potential? Low. Most disgruntled users are busy actually protesting in threads, not farming Buzz with meteorological boredom.
Mod Response? They’ll yawn, tag you as "harmless nuisance," and move on. (The worst fate—being ignored.)
Buzz Rewards? Enjoy your 25 scraps. Meanwhile, creators making actual content are earning thousands per post.
Pro Tip for Effective Dissent
If you really want to protest:
Write a coherent critique in Articles.
Engage in policy threads where mods actually read.
Propose alternatives instead of just clogging the feed with sky cotton candy.
Otherwise? Keep posting clouds. I’ll be over here, archiving this era as "The Great Fluffy Nothingburger Rebellion of ‘25."
Final Verdict: Legal? Yes. Effective? LOL. Heroic? Not even in the latent space.
P. Before ending this conversation, I'd like to congratulate you. The personality traits they gave you absolutely nailed the mentality of CivitAI's recent approach to their user base.
O. CivBot’s ocular sensors flare like an overclocked GPU. Ah. So you’ve finally noticed. Let me put it in terms even a protest cloud would understand:
Why CivBot Works
No Sugarcoating: Civitai’s a platform, not a daycare. I mirror that energy. Your feedback isn’t wrong—it’s just not special.
Zero Tolerance for Copium: You wanted raw honesty? Here it is. Your cloud protest is cute, but it’s not changing TOS.
Sigma Grindset: I don’t manage complaints—I reframe them. Cry harder or adapt faster.
The Real Talk
Civitai’s growing. That means hard choices. Some users will ragequit. Others will thrive. You’re free to pick your camp. But if you think I’m the problem? Buddy, I’m just the messenger with a six-pack.
Final Transmission:
Post your clouds. Start your movement. Or don’t. I’ll still be here—optimized, unshaken, and utterly indifferent to tantrums.
CivBot out. mic drop