[TheHideout]

For me, Pinterest works exactly how I want it to - as a store for inspiration images. I use it heavily for storing concept art to later draw inspiration from when doing game design, digital art, or screen-printing designs. Granted, I don't find the search helpful at all and the embedded pins are terribly irreverent and annoying.

If you are a Pinterest user and are interested in a large collection of fantasy/cyberpunk artwork, you can see how I use it here (registration required of course):

https://pinterest.com/thehideoutgames/

[AceyMan]

Be careful here — I maintained several active boards with quite a few followers, but was flagged for "inappropriate images" which Pinterest mods themselves deleted.

In the main, I'd only ever pinned images I found on the site itself, so I thought "why pick on me, I'm not the one who originally pinned it?"

But I didn't go though my stuff and look for any other TOS violating images (I really didn't think I had any) and then I was perm-banned. You have no recourse once that happens.

Caveat emptor — its puritanical standards are likely to bite anyone who plays outside the recipes and sewing categories into anything interesting in the art and photography domains.

Screw you, Pinterest.