First of all, I apologize for the wall of text and any controversys/disagreements this may cause. Hopefully my explaination is logical, and no, I'm not posting this solely to irritate people on purpose, it's a legitimate concern to help improve Danbooru quality.
So, I ran into this problem when I was going through and cleaning some tags up, I noticed a pic was tagged with censored when there was nothing to censor. So I tried to remove it and it kept comming back, so I figured out which tag it was implicated with.
Many "conveniently censored" images don't actually have a censor persay. The convenient_censoring wiki says, "Censorship using several devices within a scene."
Does this mean images that have convenient_censoring should have censored?
Not really, because in most cases, they weren't drawn to have parts that need censoring, therefor they don't need to be censored. The same applies to clothes, which censor an otherwise naked character.
So this brings up what exactly is censoring in regards to the images on Danbooru. The censored wiki talks about how censoring involves using bluring/bars and such to vaginas/penises/etc. so that they comply with Japanese laws. In other words, specifically the censoring the objects in question. Why would you call something censored when the object in question isn't visible at all?
Bottom Line: It is censorship in a way, but the censored wiki clearly defines the censored TAG as the censoring of the objects in question because they are present and visible(though not neccissarily clearly visible). Otherwise, every image would be tagged with censored or uncensored.
Are these really "censored"?
post #526325
post #524707
post #522495
I could easily find several hundred more too, since most of the whole tag doesn't really need to be with censored.
And yes, I realised I could have probably said the same thing with a lot less explaination and still be understood but I just wanted to make sure that I covered everything.
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