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Ratings check thread

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reg_panda said:

I still wonder, what makes e.g. post #7625822 questionable, and not explicit? According to howto:rate?

That looks E to me, it's a sex act in plain view, not hidden or anything.

Edit: looks like it's quite inconstent though, and even I have a post under that search, which I recall rating because of the other posts under rating:q cunnilingus, so now I'm not so sure anymore. I guess it doesn't fall under exposed genitals, nor actual sex acts because there's a barrier, so it falls back to Q.

Taking a quick browse of that search, amajority of them should absolutely be E, not Q.

It doesn't matter if it's over the clothes. I checked a few other non-penetrative sex acts rating Q and it's kinda stupid how there are over 100 handjobs rated Q. There's even hundreds of penetrative sex acts rated Q. Pick any sexual tag and you find utter insanity under both Q and S.

reg_panda said:

Bondage, gags are mentioned under q. (howto:rate)

Milking machine is probably NSFL, which is e.

岩戸鈴芽 said:

The milking machines should probably be E, I think the rest is fine as Q.

I also agree milking machines used in this manner should probably be E, but I don't think it's extreme enough to be considered NSFL.

Blank_User said:

... I don't think it's extreme enough to be considered NSFL.

Same, I don't know why it's necessary to make up new, subjective "categories" to explain the rating when what we have already suffices.

I refuse this, as I am the one that applies what's written in howto:rate, and you are the one that never ever attempted to refer it, just randomly say explicit or questionable (probably without any logic behind it, but certainly not based on what's written). Anyway I obviously suck at this, so I'm outta here.

NSFL is for things that are weird and gross but not necessarily covered by the previous clauses in that line. Stuff like pool #1908.
And by the way, howto:rate is a guideline not a hard and fast rule. This is a thread for consensused-based decision making. Experienced users don't make explicit references to the rating standards because they already know them, and assume others do as well.

Of course, you are right, people asking advice here can read too, and there won't be any point to check a guideline for them. This topic is for consensused-based decision making.

Still I wonder if the guideline couldn't be more detailed, so fewer cases would fall under subjective judgement. E.g post #7745304 and post #7745331, what made 岩戸鈴芽 and Blank User think that it is explicit, and can't we formulate it, and put it in the wiki?

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