At 4/17/24 08:35 AM, TomFulp wrote: We’ve rolled out a series of forum updates this week to introduce ratings to forum threads. When making a new thread, you will now see a selector to set the intended rating.

The main priority of this update is to give Adult ratings to adult threads. We aren’t planning to split hairs over the nuances of E and T threads.

Important note: This doesn’t mean you can post nudes, or porn you’ve found on the Internet in an adult thread. Adult threads are intended for artists who are sharing their art, in particular in the Art Forum, where there are a good number of NSFW threads that have now been updated.

We still need to make updates to show ratings in the thread listings. We also plan to let thread creators edit the rating on their own threads at any time after the thread has been created.

The forum listings and forum search will now apply your ratings filters, so if you think threads are missing, check your filters. The filter toggle isn’t currently visible on forum pages but that will be the next change to roll out.

I hope everyone is enjoying their spring! The feed overhaul is still in progress and won’t result in any visible changes but will improve overall performance and server storage for feeds. Similarly there have been text editor updates in progress that will mainly be back-end improvements. This year has been all about "not fun but necessary" projects so far.

Pico Day is a month away, with a big event here on the site, as well as some meetups!

Meetups

May 17th - Pico Day NJ Meetup
May 18th - Dublin, Ireland Meetup
June 28th - Too Many Games Meetup in Oaks, PA.

Collabs and Events

April 19th - Art Inspired Music Contest begins!
April 20th - Earth Day Collab deadline.
April 21st - Flash Forward deadline.
April 25th - Happy Tree Friends Gijinka Collab deadline.
April 26th - Nintendo 64 Collab deadline.
April 30th - OneyPlays Sonic Shorts deadline.

May 12th - Dragon Raid Art Collab deadline.
May 14th - KinitoPET Collab deadline.
May 15th - Sonic’s 33rd Art Collab deadline.
May 18th - Pico Day

June - Midsummer Rumble month-long art event!
June 2nd - Dreamcast Collab extended deadline.
June 5th - NGTV Summer Bash deadline.
June 17th - Art Inspired Music Contest deadline.

July 11th - Christmas in July Collab deadline.
July 20th - Five Nights at Freddy's Collab deadline.

November 1st - Nintendo DS Collab deadline.

If you missed it, check out the Best of March!

At 4/17/24 09:29 AM, OnixDark wrote: considering what the threads ratings are for, wouldn't it be best/easier/more convenient to have just 2 ratings ("safe" and "not safe") instead of the usual 4 (ETMA)? and have the thread show a NSFW label when marked as "not safe" while the "safe" threads are left unmarked?
because how are the mods going to deal with a thread where the poster absentmindedly left an E rating on, but the topic evolves into M-rated territory? specially with how often users have to report art that was left E-rated when it should be M-rated. it's not like the initial poster can control which rating nuances a thread goes to when there are several people discussing the topic...

At 4/17/24 09:32 AM, xeiavica wrote:

At 4/17/24 09:29 AM, OnixDark wrote: considering what the threads ratings are for, wouldn't it be best/easier/more convenient to have just 2 ratings ("safe" and "not safe") instead of the usual 4 (ETMA)? and have the thread show a NSFW label when marked as "not safe" while the "safe" threads are left unmarked?
because how are the mods going to deal with a thread where the poster absentmindedly left an E rating on, but the topic evolves into M-rated territory? specially with how often users have to report art that was left E-rated when it should be M-rated. it's not like the initial poster can control which rating nuances a thread goes to when there are several people discussing the topic...

I think the rating is the intention behind the thread. If someone is posting porn then they can get dealt with by a forum moderator for posting something that the thread wasn't intended for. Something around those lines. The Tom can clarify further when he reads this.

At 4/17/24 09:29 AM, OnixDark wrote: considering what the threads ratings are for, wouldn't it be best/easier/more convenient to have just 2 ratings ("safe" and "not safe") instead of the usual 4 (ETMA)? and have the thread show a NSFW label when marked as "not safe" while the "safe" threads are left unmarked?
because how are the mods going to deal with a thread where the poster absentmindedly left an E rating on, but the topic evolves into M-rated territory? specially with how often users have to report art that was left E-rated when it should be M-rated. it's not like the initial poster can control which rating nuances a thread goes to when there are several people discussing the topic...

At 4/17/24 09:39 AM, TomFulp wrote:

At 4/17/24 09:29 AM, OnixDark wrote: considering what the threads ratings are for, wouldn't it be best/easier/more convenient to have just 2 ratings ("safe" and "not safe") instead of the usual 4 (ETMA)? and have the thread show a NSFW label when marked as "not safe" while the "safe" threads are left unmarked?
because how are the mods going to deal with a thread where the poster absentmindedly left an E rating on, but the topic evolves into M-rated territory? specially with how often users have to report art that was left E-rated when it should be M-rated. it's not like the initial poster can control which rating nuances a thread goes to when there are several people discussing the topic...

This comes down to maintaining consistency with how we do ratings across the site, vs introducing a secondary rating system just for the forums. It was never gonna be perfect but it achieves the main goal.

This is why we aren't going to nitpick E-T threads, however people should make note that there is usually no good reason to inject M-A stuff into an E-T thread.

At 4/17/24 09:42 AM, xeiavica wrote:

At 4/17/24 09:39 AM, TomFulp wrote:

At 4/17/24 09:29 AM, OnixDark wrote: considering what the threads ratings are for, wouldn't it be best/easier/more convenient to have just 2 ratings ("safe" and "not safe") instead of the usual 4 (ETMA)? and have the thread show a NSFW label when marked as "not safe" while the "safe" threads are left unmarked?
because how are the mods going to deal with a thread where the poster absentmindedly left an E rating on, but the topic evolves into M-rated territory? specially with how often users have to report art that was left E-rated when it should be M-rated. it's not like the initial poster can control which rating nuances a thread goes to when there are several people discussing the topic...

This comes down to maintaining consistency with how we do ratings across the site, vs introducing a secondary rating system just for the forums. It was never gonna be perfect but it achieves the main goal.

This is why we aren't going to nitpick E-T threads, however people should make note that there is usually no good reason to inject M-A stuff into an E-T thread.

Lets say a thread is PG in movie terms or E10+ in video game terms. Should it be E or T then?

At 4/17/24 09:39 AM, TomFulp wrote:

At 4/17/24 09:29 AM, OnixDark wrote: considering what the threads ratings are for, wouldn't it be best/easier/more convenient to have just 2 ratings ("safe" and "not safe") instead of the usual 4 (ETMA)? and have the thread show a NSFW label when marked as "not safe" while the "safe" threads are left unmarked?
because how are the mods going to deal with a thread where the poster absentmindedly left an E rating on, but the topic evolves into M-rated territory? specially with how often users have to report art that was left E-rated when it should be M-rated. it's not like the initial poster can control which rating nuances a thread goes to when there are several people discussing the topic...

This comes down to maintaining consistency with how we do ratings across the site, vs introducing a secondary rating system just for the forums. It was never gonna be perfect but it achieves the main goal.

This is why we aren't going to nitpick E-T threads, however people should make note that there is usually no good reason to inject M-A stuff into an E-T thread.

At 4/17/24 10:06 AM, Czyszy wrote: What if there's a family friendly E rated thread and someone comes in with a reply in that thread which contains curse words, like "fuck" etc.? Will the person who replies be penalized/bleeped out? Or will the thread rating be updated to a higher rating?

At 4/17/24 10:07 AM, xeiavica wrote:

At 4/17/24 10:06 AM, Czyszy wrote: What if there's a family friendly E rated thread and someone comes in with a reply in that thread which contains curse words, like "fuck" etc.? Will the person who replies be penalized/bleeped out? Or will the thread rating be updated to a higher rating?

I was just pushing wegra's buttons, but in that case, I doubt profanity would auto change rating because one wanker used a naughty word.

At 4/17/24 10:06 AM, Czyszy wrote: What if there's a family friendly E rated thread and someone comes in with a reply in that thread which contains curse words, like "fuck" etc.? Will the person who replies be penalized/bleeped out? Or will the thread rating by updated to a higher rating?

At 4/17/24 09:44 AM, OnixDark wrote:

At 4/17/24 09:39 AM, TomFulp wrote:

At 4/17/24 09:29 AM, OnixDark wrote: considering what the threads ratings are for, wouldn't it be best/easier/more convenient to have just 2 ratings ("safe" and "not safe") instead of the usual 4 (ETMA)? and have the thread show a NSFW label when marked as "not safe" while the "safe" threads are left unmarked?
because how are the mods going to deal with a thread where the poster absentmindedly left an E rating on, but the topic evolves into M-rated territory? specially with how often users have to report art that was left E-rated when it should be M-rated. it's not like the initial poster can control which rating nuances a thread goes to when there are several people discussing the topic...

This comes down to maintaining consistency with how we do ratings across the site, vs introducing a secondary rating system just for the forums. It was never gonna be perfect but it achieves the main goal.

This is why we aren't going to nitpick E-T threads, however people should make note that there is usually no good reason to inject M-A stuff into an E-T thread.

i don't think adding complication just for the sake of being consistent makes sense, but i'll just accept your decision and argue no further.
thanks for explaining.

At 4/17/24 10:29 AM, Void wrote:

At 4/17/24 10:10 AM, TomFulp wrote:

At 4/17/24 09:57 AM, Tankcraft wrote: can i just ask how do we filter out threads with the set age ratings

Your global site filters now apply to the forums, the forum page will be getting updated to include the filters.

I'm unsure if I'm wording this correctly, but will the forum age filters become separate from the rest of the site at some point? I don't browse A-rated content at all, but I'd still like to view A-rated forum posts. I imagine that adjusting the filters frequently would get annoying

At 4/17/24 10:29 AM, Void wrote:

At 4/17/24 10:10 AM, TomFulp wrote:

At 4/17/24 09:57 AM, Tankcraft wrote: can i just ask how do we filter out threads with the set age ratings

Your global site filters now apply to the forums, the forum page will be getting updated to include the filters.

I'm unsure if I'm wording this correctly, but will the forum age filters become separate from the rest of the site at some point? I don't browse A-rated content at all, but I'd still like to view A-rated forum posts. I imagine that adjusting the filters frequently would get annoying