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Anonymous commented at 2015-04-26 12:56:57 » #1729340
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People keep calling this place a porn site even though only roughly less than a third of the content is even explicit. And that includes things that might not be porn.
I know the most talkative people on the site go here for the porn, but that doesn't make it a porn site.
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People keep calling this place a porn site even though only roughly less than a third of the content is even explicit. And that includes things that might not be porn.
I know the most talkative people on the site go here for the porn, but that doesn't make it a porn site.
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Jerl commented at 2015-04-27 15:54:05 » #1730037
Unfortunately those statistics aren't made available, even to us members of staff.
On the other hand, it wouldn't really matter. Even if the more noticeable portion of our userbase may use the site differently, we run the site as a general gallery for Japanese art, and all of the policies we have for tagging, uploading, and commenting are made with this fact in mind. For example, if Gelbooru were intended as a porn site, the tag "from_behind" would be used for images of a character being "taken from behind" sexually. We use it for perspective instead.
Running the site in this way hasn't seemed to impact our bottom line in any way, and having plenty of safe content actually increases our potential userbase and thus ad revenue, so it's unlikely that this will change any time soon.
As for your statement on our definition of safe, please be aware that the definition included on the help page is only a truncated guideline to help users when they're using the ratings to search for images. Our actual policy on how images should be rated can be found here:
gelbooru.com/index.php?page=wiki&s=view&id=2535
For "safe", it clearly states that posts that receive this rating must "clearly lack sexual content". It does allow for tasteful swimsuits, lingerie, and pantyshots, as well as clearly non-sexual nudity, but if these things are softcore pornography to you, I have good news: you can find this in advertisements in the newspaper and on television as well. It also allows for "non-sexual nudity", which is reserved for when the nudity is clearly intended to be artistic instead of erotic, such as in post #417420.
Yes, some posts occasionally bleed through the lines, but in general most posts rated "safe" actually meet these criteria. There are actually far more posts rated "questionable" which should be rated "safe" or "explicit" instead because of questionable being the default.
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Unfortunately those statistics aren't made available, even to us members of staff.
On the other hand, it wouldn't really matter. Even if the more noticeable portion of our userbase may use the site differently, we run the site as a general gallery for Japanese art, and all of the policies we have for tagging, uploading, and commenting are made with this fact in mind. For example, if Gelbooru were intended as a porn site, the tag "from_behind" would be used for images of a character being "taken from behind" sexually. We use it for perspective instead.
Running the site in this way hasn't seemed to impact our bottom line in any way, and having plenty of safe content actually increases our potential userbase and thus ad revenue, so it's unlikely that this will change any time soon.
As for your statement on our definition of safe, please be aware that the definition included on the help page is only a truncated guideline to help users when they're using the ratings to search for images. Our actual policy on how images should be rated can be found here:
gelbooru.com/index.php?page=wiki&s=view&id=2535
For "safe", it clearly states that posts that receive this rating must "clearly lack sexual content". It does allow for tasteful swimsuits, lingerie, and pantyshots, as well as clearly non-sexual nudity, but if these things are softcore pornography to you, I have good news: you can find this in advertisements in the newspaper and on television as well. It also allows for "non-sexual nudity", which is reserved for when the nudity is clearly intended to be artistic instead of erotic, such as in post #417420.
Yes, some posts occasionally bleed through the lines, but in general most posts rated "safe" actually meet these criteria. There are actually far more posts rated "questionable" which should be rated "safe" or "explicit" instead because of questionable being the default.
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