Hello everyone! We hope you are having a wonderful September as we usher in the autumn season!
Today we write this announcement to let you know about our incoming nudity rule changes!
Our team has spent time observing, discussing, and taking in your feedback- and we realize our nudity rules must become simpler and more consistently applicable across a wide variety of artistic situations.
Our most recent set of nudity rules requires #PartialNudity and #FullNudity to be used for all partially or fully nude characters with unclothed torsos with no obstructions to skin such as fur or scales. Upon review, we believe this ruleset can be interpreted quite subjectively and can lend to confusion and an uneven application of the rule and we would like to take steps to improve it!
Starting today (insert date here), our partial nudity and full nudity tags will be merged into one #Nudity tag and will be defined as follows!
Nudity - Content containing exposed or unclothed humanoid nipples.
The below image contains a visual tagging guide that is featured in our rules page!
This means that regardless of if your character is humanoid or anthropomorphic, tagging for nudity will only be required if the character is depicted with exposed humanoid nipples and is no longer dependent on the level of skin exposure.
Implementation
If your artworks already include the #PartialNudity or #FullNudity tags, worry not! The new tag will be automatically applied to your works.
For uploads that did not previously require the nudity tags (such as characters covered in fur, scales, or other similar obstructions to skin that still included humanoid nipples), please include this addition to your works at your earliest convenience!
If your upload no longer requires the nudity tag under these changes, please feel free to remove the tags as necessary. Under the circumstances that your ability to edit tags on relevant posts has been locked by a moderator, please reply to the existing modmails or make an edit to the post so that it may be sent back to our moderation team for manual review!
Our hope is that this rule change streamlines the tagging process for users and staff alike, leading to a much more predictable and easily applicable nudity tagging system! As always, please let us know what you think!
Keep it Sheezy, everybody, and have a wonderful October!
Thank you so much for this change, this is much easier to understand. Under the old rules, any barbie doll nudity that would not be an issue in any context, even at places like work or school, had to be filtered out, While still allowing works that could be (unfortunately) interpreted poorly in professional environments, such as works that include humanoid nipples, to proceed without tags and no way of filtering them out.
I think it's much fairer to just blanket tag all nipples so people have a chance to filter them out, rather than have users sit around deciding on what percentage of skin exposure falls under what tag, or what even counts as skin exposure when drawings are unfinished or indiscernible, (under which a lot of my own art falls).
i personally like this update, the coexistence of #fullnudity and #partialnudity always confused me, and it was difficult for me to tell what counted (i kept being worried whether drawing characters in underwear/swimwear would count as partial nudity or not lol)
I just want to appreciate your work for the site, this ain't easy to set up rules on this ground, but it's great to have a site where even explicit character content is allowed! Proper tagging helps both to exlude and to find stuff, and I'm positive that by time people get used to any sort of tagging system. After all here are already many great ways to control your site experience and this is just a part of it. c:
I actually appreciate that doll anatomy doesn't need tagged anymore. I have a few bases that were hit by the old rule and it felt a little silly having to tag something as nudity when it is very much meant for people to draw over.
I think that the new rule is actually pretty clear. If it's naked and it doesn't have doll anatomy, then tag it for nudity. If it's naked and has doll anatomy, then you don't have to unless you want to. Yeah, nipples themselves requiring the tag is silly, but the whole US laws about nipples are silly. Plus it's clearly implied genitals should always be tagged regardless.
I think this is one case where people are making a mountain out of a molehill and kinda ironic when a few months ago there was discussion in the discord about how it was weird that doll anatomy got tagged even though by its nature there is no genitals or nipples depicted.
This is so confusing. I don't think there was anything wrong with tagging before hand. Now I'm not even sure what even classifies as acceptable nudity and non acceptable nudity for the website, or what can be shown to the general public with and without warning.
So drawing a naked full skin out humanoid character doesn't have to be tagged if no nipples or genitals are present in the image, is what I'm getting by reading the new rule implementation.
Obviously I wouldn't upload nudity without a tag but this weird.
"It follows that all food pretending to be something else is food in drag."
The change was made to make things simple and easier for users and moderators. This means that body doll anatomy, characters having their backs exposed, as well as if something like an object is blocking view of what could be nipples, will not have the need of the tag. But even with the change, users are still free to tag their artworks with the tag, if they feel it's revelant without the nipples.
(Edit: I meant to say users are free to add the tag, if a character doesn't even have nipples to begin with. Apologise for my wording.)