This is a stupid idea.

It simply wouldn't work. It would not stop people from being able to steal your save if they so desired.
Furthermore many "stolen" works aren't stolen in the first place and are actually derivatives of the original.

Lastly, I could perhaps understand being annoyed about someone stealing your work and receiving more votes than yourself (even though votes themselves are meaningless) however most stolen saves get down-voted to oblivion upon discovery anyway. So then, why exactly do you care?

No. If you publish your work, you're acknowledging that other people can copy it.

Moderators can take off stolen saves if the people who originally posted them report it, but otherwise this is something we can't aptly fix short of destructively. XD

As I've said before, they're just an array of different coloured pixels. There's no use in getting your anger up over those pixels. You publish, they copy. Everything's a remix.
Plus, there's enough community powered moderation for the most direct copies to vanish easily into the latter pages of the new queue.

@OmegaSupreme (View Post)
Calm your tits. Seriously, if you can't handle someone telling you your idea is horrible and flawed you need to grow up and rethink your position on accepting criticism.

Now then a truly stupid reply would end here however I'm going to instead concentrate at the task at hand. Which as you're probably aware, I'll reiterate for you as you may have been blinded due to intense buttrage, is to discuss the viability of disabling saves in powder toy.

Essentially what you're asking to be implemented is a kind of "copyright" system, where the creator is the only person who is able to create new copies (Copies in this case refers to published saves) of the creation.
Ignoring that the original intent of copyright wasn't to stop people from stealing your idea rather to make sure you could recover the initial investment costs in developing whatever-it-is in the first place.

To me, it seems illogical to want to protect your idea past having an opportunity to be able to recover the costs in developing that idea. Since people are not paying to view or use your work, could you please enlighten me. What's your motivation behind wanting to restrict the use of your saves? Using a system like this would also stop people from being able to remix your own work. Why don't you want to allow this?

We already have a system in place to deal with people creating exact copies of your saves, it's not perfect but it's far better than the alternative.