The wiki doesn't have anything to say about how anything other than visible genitalia affect rating. I've seen posts rated explicit/questionable from gore, but there don't seem to be any real guidelines for that.

Fenrick said:
The wiki doesn't have anything to say about how anything other than visible genitalia affect rating. I've seen posts rated explicit/questionable from gore, but there don't seem to be any real guidelines for that.

Drugs tend to be questionable IIRC but I'm not really sure about the whole thing.

Profanity and drugs aren't actively moderated for rating. Simple or cartoony blood/violence can be questionable but detailed gore, dismemberment, etc. should always be explicit.

Do you have any specific examples?

parasprite said:
Do you have any specific examples?

darn... I can't find the image (rated q) that inspired me to start the thread.

parasprite said:
detailed gore, dismemberment, etc. should always be explicit.

Just stumbled across this. Why is gore "Explicit"? It's got its own tag that can be blacklisted if people don't want it.

Furrin_Gok said:
Just stumbled across this. Why is gore "Explicit"? It's got its own tag that can be blacklisted if people don't want it.

Why shouldn't it be? It's not a thing that's PG so it goes into explicit.

Furrin_Gok said:
Just stumbled across this. Why is gore "Explicit"? It's got its own tag that can be blacklisted if people don't want it.

post #993388post #925707post #917877

Yep, totally safe for work.

Furrin_Gok said:
Just stumbled across this. Why is gore "Explicit"? It's got its own tag that can be blacklisted if people don't want it.

explicit is p much equivalent for 18+ rating, its not weird at all to give such rating for heavy and detailed gore.

Furrin_Gok said:
Just stumbled across this. Why is gore "Explicit"? It's got its own tag that can be blacklisted if people don't want it.

I mean, by that logic, the other criteria for explicit are also tagged and can be blacklisted.

There are a few benefits I can see to the rating system. Someone can forget to tag 'dismemberment' or 'penis' and may stay untagged for a while, but the rating will (typically) be caught by a mod before approval. The rating system also allows users to block a broad range of tags that would otherwise make a very large blacklist and without blacklisting, would be impossible to search.

I run into the "what should I rate this?" issue with bodily fluids on this site and others.

I feel like I'm misrating things pretty often because of that, and I don't enjoy the feeling.

It would be a little easier if the info describing what should be rated E, Q, and S included things other than nudity/sex (and gore in the case of E). Violence, drug use, bodily fluids, etc.