Adult drawing allowed ?

  • Unknown's avatar

    I swear I tried to find answer, but sometimes commentators’ answers are obscure for me (my English is not so good).
    I read TOS and didn’t find any explanation. I do not want to break any WordPress rules, so please answer:

    1. What WordPress calls pornography?
    2. Is pornography allowed here?
    3. Are drawing with explicit sexual content allowed here?

    Please answer straight, without ambiguous meaning.

  • Unknown's avatar

    You need to contact staff directly on this. Most of us here in the forums are simply volunteers. We cannot say what is or is not allowed really. Staff has to make that decision. http://support.wordpress.com/contact/

    At the very least, they may require that your blog is marked as mature which means it will not show up in the global tags pages here due to the content.

  • Unknown's avatar

    If you want a blog with adult content, then you should mark it “mature.”
    When you are logged in, look at your site: on the top right it says, “Blog Info” with a drop-down menu. Choose “report as mature.”

    If you think your blog is pornographic and you don’t mark it yourself, very likely someone else will see it on tag searches or tag surfer. Then they will report it as “mature.”

  • Unknown's avatar

    Thank you. I’ve already got how to mark bog as “mature”, so now I have to know that exactly “mature”,”adult” and “forbidden”.
    Maybe this is better solution: ask staff.
    Thank you again.

  • Legal adult and pornographic material is permitted. Spam and ads aren’t.

  • Unknown's avatar

    Yes, there is no “list” published of what is legal.
    Here is a search I just did:
    http://wordpress.com/tag/nude-models/
    (substitute different words for “nude-models to make other searches. Just be sure to include “-” between words.)

  • Unknown's avatar

    And from the one small search I did, properly used tags will not offend those who don’t want to look.

    That is, don’t label posts with tags or categories like “Sesame Street” or “Chocolate Cake” to mislead viewers/readers.

  • Unknown's avatar

    “Mature” rated blogs are excluded from the global tag lists. Their tags link to the global tag pages, but no link leads from there back to them. So it doesn’t really matter which tags they use.

  • Unknown's avatar

    raincoaster.

    Right.
    "Mature" rated blogs are excluded from the global tag lists.

    But there ARE blogs on wp.com that might be be considered “mature” if their writers misused their tags by including tags that appeal to children, family cooking, crafts, cartoon characters, eating disorders, nature, travel, and so on.

  • Unknown's avatar

    >>tellyworth
    That is the answer I hoped to see – straight and clear. Thank you very much.

    Once again thank you all for help.

  • Unknown's avatar

    @1tess no, misuse of tags like that will get a blog suspended, not put it into the Mature category. Staff’s opinion of content is what decides whether or not a blog gets “Matured” and that’s independent of tag spamming and other techniques like bait and switch. Those are ToS issues.

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