So, I am planning to upload my FurID identification image, But I don't have an artist tag + number yet, so can some admin create one ahead of schedule so my artist # matches my user #?
I'm talking about matching this:

https://e621.net/artists/THIS

with this:

https://e621.net/users/THIS

resulting in:

https://e621.net/artists/104363

being the number for my artist page
Tag: BananFisk_(artist)

Or do i just have to snipe it and hope my timing is right?
Thanks in advance

(sorry if I'm asking in the wrong place, at least the # is available at time of writing)

That is not possible, for several reasons
There's no point and it would cause numerous issues later down the line

Skipping numbers has happened with post #3000000, and it did cause issues

artist #104363
Yeah you're gonna have to snipe it

donovan_dmc said:
That is not possible, for several reasons
There's no point and it would cause numerous issues later down the line

Skipping numbers has happened with post #3000000, and it did cause issues

snpthecat said:
artist #104363
Yeah you're gonna have to snipe it

Dangit

At least there aren't land rush like when the posts are close to a million
And the current artist tag creation rate seems to be slow enough to catch up with

EDIT: is the artist tag # created on the first tagging, or when it's changed to an artist tag?

EDIT2:Also:

MD5:44ad 14e1 a4f2 e175 c8bf 32e3 eab4 207f

bananfisk said:
EDIT: is the artist tag # created on the first tagging, or when it's changed to an artist tag?

Neither, we are well in the millions with tag ids
Artists are separate and only created when someone creates them

bananfisk said:
At least there aren't land rush like when the posts are close to a million

It really wasn't even that difficult this time around, I snagged post #5000000 with very little competition
Between id:4999972..5000002 (the start and end of my uploads), I only missed 3 ids: id:4999981,4999988,4999992