Plz no third strike I'm a good boy I promise.
I've had far less removals and no strikes since I started cramming my negatives full of TOS stuff even when it seems unnecessary, but it still happens occasionally and it's very hard to tell what will be considered against TOS for a number of reasons.
How slow the process can be (sometimes 6 months between publish and removal in my experience),
How often I've seen TOS removals get reversed and restored (Idk if this is the result of mistaken removal or a normal part of the review process),
How similar removed images are to allowed images (even with identical prompts only differing by seed. Feels like an impossible spot-the-difference game sometimes).
Are strikes done manually? Do TOS removals accumulate until they equal a strike? Am I safe as long as I don't just keep uploading stuff that was removed (I've had to clean up old duplicate posts I didn't know I had so it makes me wonder if a past strike was the result of doing this by accident?). Would it help to leave posts in draft or scheduled mode for awhile so they have a chance to be reviewed before being published? Can I report my own unpublished images to request a review without risking a strike? Any insight from staff or fellow users is appreciated.
Also I don't see a first strike in my notifications. It's just second strike right off the bat, what's up with that?