I'm aware that this board has been in existence for a long time - and has had many people put a ton work into making it a great place. I'm grateful for that, and by no means intend to denigrate all that history, or want to come off as an arrogant, know-it-all newb. I realize my post is just a tiny, insignificant blip in the many, many years of Danbooru' existence. Instead what I would like to do is to just humbly ask a question from the regular contributors here, and share some thoughts I had.
Ok so with that preamble out of the way - I was curious if there's been any talk earlier about perhaps utilizing more ratings on this site, or more specifically, on splitting the safe rating into multiple categories? From what I can gather at a glance there seems to be over 5 million images that all comprise the safe rating, whereas the amount of individual tags is pretty staggering. In practice that seems to mean that combing through more voluminous tags which have tons of different kinds of content proves to be very cumbersome. So wouldn't having a couple more categories (ratings) be a boon to all the users, who could much more easily find the specific stuff they are looking for?
The way that I personally encounter these issues, is that I find that there's often many weird, completely non-sexual images in the mix, when I use a variety of tags to find good smut. However just blacklisting "rating:s:" is not ideal, since I also noticed that the "safe" rating not only contains those images, but also many with a vivid sexual tone to them. As I see it, there's 3 different categories within the "safe" rating that are vastly different - and could be (in theory) easily separated from each other. If you'll allow, I would like to demonstrate that here. I'll focus on girls due to my personal preferences.
Category A, pictures which have a suggestive sexual nature to them (girls with skimpy/fetish clothing, disrobed or suggestive angle/situation):
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post #3472362
post #5246473
post #5233235
post #4973989
post #5246670
post #4806377
post #5123238
post #5245681
post #173565
Category B, pictures with attractive girls, but no clear erotic nature to them:
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post #5246334
post #5246388
post #5245749
post #5246460
Category C, pictures that focus on other things besides beautiful girls:
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post #5246028
post #5246269
post #5246361
post #5245941
post #5245555
Anyways that's just my $0.02 on what I feel perhaps could be a positive change for this site. But I definitely though have zero expectations and no entitlement whatsoever about this. I only wish to spark a constructive conversation if what I said here is of any merit.
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