Site Update » NSFW Image Policy · 8:08pm Jun 22nd, 2015
Hi guys. So, lately we've noticed that there's been a little confusion over what exactly Fimfiction considers to be a NSFW image. The rules do say that you shouldn't post them, but they're a little unclear on exactly what a NSFW image IS. This being so, we've sat down and put together a clearer policy on what sort of image content is too much. I guess it bears reminding that none of this is particularly new stuff. Fimfiction has been running on something akin to this policy for months now. We're just trying to lay it all out nice and clear and notarized so that nobody gets blindsided by the rules in ways they couldn't have really known about.
Risky image content is defined according to two tiers: Banned and Borderline. Banned is content that absolutely won't be allowed, and images containing Banned subjects should be pretty easy and obvious to identify.
Borderline is content that sits somewhere in the blurry boundary between "NSFW" and "Safe" images. Images containing borderline content are not directly banned, but the staff does retain the right to exercise our discretion on what is and isn't too much. You should not be surprised if an image containing Borderline content is removed (or rejected if used as artwork in stories). If it seems like it might be too much, consider something a little safer instead, or ask a staff member if it might be okay. In general, please try to exercise a level of discretion when thinking about posting pics of, or submitting cover arts, that involve Borderline content.
Banned Content:
-Outright sex acts.
-Genitalia/full nudity.
-Visible nipples, whether bare or poking up through clothing.
-Cameltoe.
-Sexual fluids, both obvious and heavily implied (i.e. "suspiciously sticky mayonnaise")
-Urine/Scat.
-Gore.
Borderline Content:
-Heavily sexualized pony butts. We recognize that ponies are nude by design, but some images are deliberately designed to make their rear ends look as sexual as possible without outright genitalia. Obvious crotch-bulges, excessive focus on the rear end, etc. are the main distinguishing marks for this sort of content.
-Functionally bare human/anthro butts. Panties so small they hardly cover anything do fall under "functionally bare."
-Excessive cleavage/uncovered breasts.
-Cropped/censored porn. Sometimes it's not enough to just baaaarely remove the parts with the nipples/genitals.
-Pictures appealing to various fetishes (diapers, weight gain, vore, etc.) that don't contain outright Banned content. Again, please try to exercise some discretion on what might be over the line.
That should be about it. If you guys have any questions, feel free to ask and we'll do our best to answer. We should also be updating the rules page to include this policy sometime soon, so it will be there for future reference.
Farcical Pianos
Makes sense.
Very informative, thank you kindly!
Yeah I had to find this out the hard way...
I thought Knighty laid down these exact ground rules shortly after the NSFW image ban.
Does this mean we can't post that gif of Oberyn Martell's death from Game of Thrones?
Such a sad statement about the current state and influence of American culture.
Here in Canada, our proximity makes us more prudish than the rest of the British commonwealth by osmosis, but I still remember seeing a bit of upper frontal nudity on an afternoon CBC show maybe 10 years ago. (Two female characters were discussing something plot-relevant while they changed in the locker room at the gym.)
Speaking as a member of the VBH character segment, are we going with "excessive cleavage" as an absolute display length, or a percentage of total cleavage available?
Because if it's the former? Discrimination!
(As usual.)
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...l-lewd...
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Remember, the human body is gross and boobs are gay.
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I'm glad to see an actual guideline on these things
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General guideline for any writers who want to do something farcical with pianos:
The people on this site will hurt you.
A lot.
Ugg camel toe is worse than sexsualized diapers. So SFW.
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Don't care if you're a mod, don't care if you're admin.
Poking through clothes should be fine, it implies one of two things, or both things
1.) Cold in the room
2.) Tight dress/shirt/bra etc...
I am in no way, shape, or form to be saying this for I am a lowly peasant. Regardless, however, it should be noted that this here...
...is perfectly fine.
3171349 Makes sense? Oh what fun is there in making sense?
Good to see this, and thanks for explaining a bit more clearly, Obs.
And that's why I don't post deviantART images on FIMFiction. Hell, when Lovepuma69 drew the art for one of my stories, I blurred/edited out the nipples so I could submit it. Still suggestive as hell though.
-Kirb.
Wait, so I can read a story about the mane six being chained up, used as cum dumpsters for the town's male population, but HOLY SHIT ITS A FUCKING NIPPLE?
I never understood this mentality. I mean, yes, adverts and all that, but still, fucking really? Why not just limit it to if you have the NSFW switch? If borderline crap is unacceptable, why isn't the NSFW stories? For that mater, I never understood advertisers either.
Is the borderline thing just an issue of some shmuck from Android or Bestbuy checking out the sight in his 1800's getup, seeing more than an inch of skin outside the fact and just flipping his shit? Or is the adverts on the site monitored by goat screwing ISIS members?
3171385 Well, um...
You're a farcical piano!
Vore should be in the "outright banned" section.
"There is no limit to human cowardice, stupidity, and prudishness, Meanwhile, the universe is on an exercise regime after having burst a hole into the world of Teletubbies."
~ [redacted]
Male or female?
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I have used this site in school before. If you're reading something it takes someone looking over your shoulder a lot longer to realize the nature of something as opposed to an image
really nipples poking through clothing is bad? That's really, really.... Um odd.
could we get visual examples?
No big butts, no excessive cleavage, no nipples through shirts...
Jesus Christ, You guys are prudes.
I sincerely hope this means there won't be anymore clickbait cover arts. Btw the guy(s) who disliked this comment? You're probably a super virgin or an author that relies on clickbait pictures to get attention to your stories because your writing most likely sucks balls (literally).
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That was about a year ago. All this spread of borderline porn and clickbait cover arts didn't really happen until a bit afterwards (like a couple months). I suppose this is coming from the new people coming in.
What about risque album covers? Or classic works of Renaissance art depicting nude people?
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Go on...
What about nipple rings?
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That's because in America, there isn't really just "showing" nudity. Twenty, thirty years ago, yes. You had PG movies with full nudity in them. But there was a line between nudity and sexual nudity. As the sex industry in America has grown, it's shifted the way nudity is presented until there almost isn't a form of nudity in film or entertainment that isn't stylized for sexual purposes. As more and more research has been done into human sexuality, the more science has realized that the gap is expressly small as well. More and more businesses see nudity as a way to entice rather than to sell any particular point.
Probably the best recent example of nudity for purpose versus sexual nudity is in the recent Mad Max: Fury Road. There is a sequence with a naked woman, yes, but the focus is on what she was supposed to represent in the story rather than on titillating the audience. Thus the shots of her are very carefully chosen, at angles designed to downplay the sexuality of the character's form and instead focus on the bigger picture: That she was a carefully constructed trap placed to lure in travelers. That was the purpose, not the titillation of the audience. What was presented to the audience was to make her goal clear, not give the audience a pleasure thrill. Had another director handled it and gone another route, rather than the tasteful scene that was shot, the audience would have been given a full frontal view of the actress, probably with nipples erect and lots of sweat for shine ... and she probably would have struck a pose—not for the story at all, but just for the titillation of the audience.
Sexualization of the human form in America is common enough that most people can't even see the difference anymore, and there really isn't one. If there's a nude figure (or clothed figure, even), it's going to be sexualized. To an absurd degree. The shot you bring up (women changing) in an American film is going to be very different. In fact, you can watch American films with women in locker rooms in them, and most of them look like juvenile strip-teases, as if the women in question are far less interested in getting changed, but in giving some strip-show to an audience behind the mirrors. The reality of undressing is far from the portrayal of American media.
Meanwhile, those who are all for this titillation do their best to publicly shame those who are not with insults or other harassment, and will argue over and over again that there is nothing "sexual" about an image of a woman who appears to be licking her own breasts.
Those individuals quite literally do not understand what the term "sexual" means. Many of them seem to believe it's just a checklist of bullet points. It's not.
It's intent.
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You have too much faith in this site's user base. When given the choice between exercising discretion or stretching the letter of the rules to the absolute limit, you can bet money they'll go with the latter. We're not creative enough for the former.
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I can't upvote this enough. So shiny and chrome
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That's already been established.
I like how in my old school, a picture of Sweet Apple Acres from Imgur is blocked and cannot be seen, but a naked anthro pony giving a blowjob to a pony from Derpibooru is completely visible and not blocked. If you're going to put parental controls on your wifi, at least do it right, high school.
God, I know that college is going to be the same thing.
Why can't we have ratings on blogs, like we do on stories?
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3171467 I can't even
3171395 Stories can be rated mature. Pictures cannot. Having show mature off would not prevent you from seeing these images.
While i appreciate the detail for rules, i still must ask: Why?!
We allowed stories so fucked up it could make a kitten cry, yet AN EXPOSED NIPPLE?! That is totally crossing the line, man. And last time i checked, people come here to read the story and not the cover art or comments section.
Sure, i understand if everyone is allowed to post NSFW images, it gonna be /mlp/ or wherever you fucks go to all over again. But we have the View Mature Content toggle, why not simply apply it to the rule? And wouldn't it be rather pointless to remove NSFW images when the story related is filled with clopping and extreme fetishes? Since i reckon if a person is intelligent enough to find this site, they can read.
And yeah images are more noticeable in public than a bunch of text, but most of them need to be manually click on to view. So if they have any shame at all, they wouldn't try those in a mature story while there are people around.
Again, i support making rules and guidelines, but i don't think this one is done right.
P.S: Nipples poking up through clothes or cameltoe is WORSE than diaper and vore fetishes.
That say a lot about this post.
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You're no fun.
How did you come up with the fact that FiMFiction is equal to Nazism, without humor?
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And yet you ask what's the point of my comment...which is what 95% of what serious people said to me.
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Yeah, a lot of it's this. I don't doubt that there's plenty of nudity with artistic goals out there, but in practical terms, pretty much any benippled picture someone's likely to post on this site is going to be for sex purposes.
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Times are a changin' me thinks
I needed an excuse to stop drawing clop anyway...
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A lot of the current image policy relates to Google Adsense (which essentially pays for Fimfic's upkeep, so they're kind of important). They're Rather Vague about what exactly trips their sensors on NSFW images, so we have to play it a little bit safer than sorrier. Which, yeah, means avoiding exposed nipples.
Also, uh, bear in mind guys that this has pretty much been the rules-in-effect for like, months now. Nothing's really changing as a result of this. We're just trying to establish clarity on how risky images are considered on the staff end, so that nobody gets blindsided by unclear NSFW rules.
Well, even if the majority likes to read these texts and see these images, there are still a part of the people coming on fimfiction.net which isn't fine with doing that. There are other websites for this.
I agree with these rules.
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I like you.