After some internal discussion followed by a public debate, we have gone ahead and added a new expunge reason named "Defaced" with the following description:

"Content has been defaced by adding content-obstructing scanmarks, censorship or advertisements beyond what is present in the original artist release, or has been intentionally degraded to the point where legibility is an issue."

Since this expunge type has a subjective element, you need a mod power of at least 20 to start this type of expunge petition. It won't show in the list if you have less.

"Degraded" includes any sort of intentional bad-faith sabotage of the core content, including but not limited to excessive downsampling, blurring, pixelation etc, as well as leaving out core content.

Scanmarks that do not obstruct content or promotional pages added after the content pages do not qualify.

Older low-resolution scans are exempt.

This expunge type does not contribute towards the automatic temporary upload ban.

Expunge type filtering was also added to the expunge tracker as part of this addition, along with some other minor filtering improvements.