"I also don't think it is possible for staff to give a much firmer guideline, without boxing themselves in too much or having to go the 200 page booklet route, to make sure they cover every single example of what is allowed and what isn't."
Agreed that this is kind of the crux of it. I don't think that more clarity would inherently be a bad thing, but no matter what the rules are, there will always be people trying to juuuust sneak by them for the sake of being edgy - not even saying that that was what all these examples were, but human nature being what it is, that's a phenomenon someone in a role like the skin approval mods will always have to be on the lookout for.
And if you want the mods to check submissions against every previously-approved skin in the (recent years) history of the site to make sure their decisions are always 100% consistent like we're citing Supreme Court cases here...and you think the approval delay is bad now?
(And 'hot demon girl'? Really? Come on. That was just asking for the accent to really go under the magnifying glass.)
Re: Skin makers go on strike
Agreed that this is kind of the crux of it. I don't think that more clarity would inherently be a bad thing, but no matter what the rules are, there will always be people trying to juuuust sneak by them for the sake of being edgy - not even saying that that was what all these examples were, but human nature being what it is, that's a phenomenon someone in a role like the skin approval mods will always have to be on the lookout for.
And if you want the mods to check submissions against every previously-approved skin in the (recent years) history of the site to make sure their decisions are always 100% consistent like we're citing Supreme Court cases here...and you think the approval delay is bad now?
(And 'hot demon girl'? Really? Come on. That was just asking for the accent to really go under the magnifying glass.)