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Since there's been some debate about which secrets get linked and which don't, I'd like your input!

Unfortunately, I can't link everything that's NSFW because what's NSFW varies. In some cases, things as commonly found in secrets as profanity in large text would be considered NSFW.

Things currently on the "link" list:
- explicit guro
- explicit nudity (of the pornographic type; art is fine)
- anything containing outright porn
- images that contain common triggers in visual (that is, not text) form (e.g. signs of self-injury, images of dub/non-con between characters, pictures of emaciated human beings. Things like images of real murders and genocide victims have also been used before)
- flashy "seizure" gifs
- anything in which children are sexualized (yes I did go back and link the Boku no Pico one, I'm sorry about that)

None of those things above are up for debate.

But there are times when it's not so clear cut. Like something that is censored but barely, or something that is definitely sexual but isn't explicitly showing any body parts. For example, there's a secret in this week's batch of two half-clothed people, and one is about to reach (consensually) into the other one's pants and is halfway there but hasn't quite made it yet, and there's kissing and touching that makes it obvious where it's heading. There's another secret of a character in a dress pulling the skirt part up, with a small censor over the genitalia but otherwise overtly sexualized.

What about things like that?

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Remember, nothing is going to be censored - the secret will be posted like any other, in the body of the post, not in the bar at the bottom - just linked instead of embedded. And some people are more likely to pay attention to secrets linked for being porny anyway, so there's that!

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As far as I know, things like explicit guro or explicit sex have always been linked (at least, after '08). It's just rare that we get any.

I don't remember how long I've been reading FS, but I know I've seen a good few secrets with sex where dongs are very, very present. I've also seen a couple "guro" secrets, but to be fair those weren't very explicit.

But I guess that raises the question of what is considered explicit guro and/or sex here at FS?

...really? I don't recall any dongs/genitalia being posted at all in the past year or so.

And uuuh, guro involving blood and realistic body parts? And sex involving clear pictures of genitalia/obvious nudity/sexual intercourse etc etc

Edited 2011-01-27 08:30 (UTC)

Let me go check and see how long I've been reading F!S then? Cause I know I've seen maybe 3 or so secrets with them in it. I want to say the last one I saw was from longer than a year ago though.

Regardless, I personally don't care what shows up in F!S and just assume that stuff will be explicit. And if it's linked, I just don't bother checking it.

I remember there being porny secrets, yeah, but as far as I remember, they were all linked and not embedded (unless I messed up, and I'm sure people would have called it for dong-related action if I did...)

That's probably the safest attitude to have re: the nsfw stuff though. (:

The ones I saw were embedded. It could have been a very long time ago?

I'm just confused since from what I remember, stuff was never linked. And then suddenly sometime last year all sorts of warnings and links started showing up and I was like "bwuh? what's the problem? Why is this stuff getting linked now when it wasn't before?"

Either that, or I haven't been paying very good attention to F!S. :U

Maybe! I am sure that after '08 and LJ banning random fandom comms for posting porn of various kinds, though, FS stopped posting explicit porn.

The trigger/spoiler warnings have been around for a while too, I don't remember when those started...

... has it really been that long?

I want to say maybe about a year? But possibly less than that? I think I check F!S every day, but I can't really pinpoint when I first remembered seeing them.

I remember some porny embedded ones from the summer of '08 because I was a moron and was looking at F!S at work LOL

I clearly remember some embedded secrets with porn images in them as well, but those were around the time I started reading FS (in 2008) Haven't seen many recently, though.

Edited 2011-01-27 09:57 (UTC)

I don't really want to go back and look for it, but I swear there was a guro picture posted, like, two days ago. Something with intestines and the secret was like, "they fight all the time -- this is my ideal couple"?

...really? I don't remember it, are you sure it's within two days? I'll go look if you can give me a general time.

I can't say for sure -- I'm on such a different time zone that I read fs at really weird hours. It was kind of easy to miss, TBF. I didn't notice at first, but it caught my eye and when I went back and looked, intestine!

I think that they're referring to 23 in #1483, the Umineko one that starts "They went to war against each other". It definitely looks similar to intestines, but I'm not sure whether it's just fancy but bloodied up clothes or intestines.

OH. Whoa, I thought those were clothes, sorry about that.

I recall a secret a few weeks ago with a stock picture of a giant purple dildo that the OP had named Sam Wincester. *snickers*

Edited 2011-01-27 15:02 (UTC)

That's not technically sex or porn, though...

No no, I know.. but you were discussing dongs/genitalia.... and isn't dong slang for dildo?

OH dong as in dildo, I remember a few, yeah. I don't think those count as explicit nc-17 stuff though - I could be wrong, please correct me if I am, hahaha