[ldjb]

We're talking about public property here. Many authorities have a 'no tolerance' approach to graffiti. Even if it looks nice, it will be removed. There is a belief that removing graffiti quickly discourages it. If graffiti artists find that their work won't last long, they may be discouraged from doing it in the first place. Aesthetics doesn't really come into it.

[lloeki]

> There is a belief that removing graffiti quickly discourages it. If graffiti artists find that their work won't last long, they may be discouraged from doing it in the first place.

Ephemerality is known, understood, accepted, and even leveraged in art. I don't think this is an efficient deterrent, or even a deterrent at all.

[whilenot-dev]

> There is a belief that removing graffiti quickly discourages it.

It's the other way around, if it isn't quickly removed it will be encouraged: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

[Thorrez]

That's not really the other way around. That's 2 ways of stating basically the same thing.

[TillE]

I dunno about the entirety of Germany, but I don't think I've ever seen graffiti removed in Berlin, and there's a ton of it. It's fine, nobody cares.

[Symbiote]

Graffiti on trains in Berlin is very quickly removed.

[wiseowise]

Is it fine or public just fed up constantly removing it?