Topic: TWYS should be removed or at least tweeked.

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I know that one of the rules on the site here is "tag what you see" obviously meaning if you see anal in a post you tag it with anal. The problem is that some things are subjective and people will even argue if a post should have a tag or not. Case in point I don't know how many times people will tag a post with young and cub simply because a character looks, small, cute, and cartoonish. There are art styles like chibi for example that are all about being small, cute, and cartoony. Even if other people know and explain that a character is canonically a fully grown adult like Isabelle from Animal Crossing, Conker from Conkers Bad Fur Day, people will still argue because of the TWYS rule even if they are completely in the wrong. One post I had to argue about because the original artist posted the same piece over on furaffinity, a website that banned cub porn years ago witch obviously means it can't be cub porn since the artist wouldn't risk getting banned. People actually said it was irrelevant when it was completely relevant! That's like trying to prove someone is safe in a game of baseball because someone touched the base before getting touched the catcher caught the ball, and someone says that's irrelevant. This makes this VERY if not extremely frustrating to try and make sure posts are labeled correctly, especially since some people have certain very strong options on posts like those. I feel like there should be a simple system where you need to provide proof in order to have certain tags like that be added or removed. Something simple like showing where the characters canon age is or show them doing something only an adult could do like applying to get into collage or something. The "tag what you see" rule just comes off as lazy and inefficient with these kinds of cases.

Updated by Millcore


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