"Why was this pic deleted?"

This is a common occurence, since photoshoots tend to be very repetitve, with the same poses and only outfits changing, or a series of slight movement changes. Those 2 pics above are exceptionally similar. I wold have merged them as well if they came up on my radar.

Would a photo ten years later be deleted because the pose is Sort of similar? I don't think so.

Yes, it happens all the time. When a photo is uploaded has nothing to do with whether it is a duplicate or substantially similar.

I stand corrected,then. I certainly accept they are really similar. Just wasn't sure to What extent that meant merging images or not.Thanks for clarifying.

Yes, it happens all the time. When a photo is uploaded has nothing to do with whether it is a duplicate or substantially similar.

When a model has several photos that clearly demonstrate her well-defined physique, and in one photo her clothing only reveals a specific area, and that area shows, as in this case, a toned abdomen even if not overly defined, the photo should be considered valid. This photo is very beautiful and belongs on GWM.

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Sorry, just having a basic picture of a person who is known to be fit and muscular just doesn’t cut it in most cases, the picture needs to show this, and if it only shows it a little bit, then it is an edge case. The uploader needs to apply a bit of judgment. I say “most cases”, because it’s easy to make blanket “rules“ that sound good, but this is all about edge cases. Some of these cases depend on the available pictures of the model. There are model names that go back to the beginning of this site, when the volume of available images was much smaller than it is today, and there are only a handful of pictures. Forget video. We take all of this into consideration. When a model has 20 pages of images, the standards go up. Uploaders need to be selective and exercise some judgment.

People who post a sequence of eight pictures that are very similar can expect to have those merged or deleted. People who post a picture showing a little bit of ab definition or bare skin when there is a body of better images of that model are taking a long shot.

If a video is a highlight reel, a still image with music that is a Trojan video, or has cuts/scene changes every half second, it will probably get deleted for poor quality.