RachelLately 2025-05-06 13:27:11

Taxes?! Made me laugh.

Yatsufusa 2025-05-07 07:39:36

As I understand it* (and focused on a first impression of your work):

"E" ("no adult themes including alcohol, tobacco, drugs or fetishes")
Basically everything you couldn't discuss in front of a child that's old enough to find and navigate NG on the internet.

"T" ("mild mature themes")
Bikinis, underwear, discussing mortality, the kind of violence that only produces a few drops of blood...

"M" ("mature themes")
In a nutshell: "Adult stuff" that, if you did that 'to' a minor could likely spell jail time - but doing it 'in front of' a minor would only get you "into trouble".
(Plus the kind of violence that paints a room red.)

"A" ("Nudity, sex, skintight or see-through outfits that leave nothing to the imagination, extreme gore, fetishes, extreme adult themes.")

I hope that helps, but in doubt you can always contact a moderator for a more binding answer:
https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/site-moderation

* based on this: https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/terms-of-use/art-guidelines

Yatsufusa 2025-05-09 05:18:47

@MalachytePanda I happen to know the bit of interface you're referring to but had not yet operated it... :)
I just messed around with it and I have to agree with you that it is "clear as mud" what "Adult Themes" is supposed to mean in that particular context.

Without having a clear example, all I could think about for "Adult Themes" that isn't covered by the other boxes would be "discussion of death", "implied death", "discussion of lung cancer", "discussion of nicotine addiction", "discussion of alcohol abuse"... Those kinds of things...

I once did a fair bit of digging into "How to do NG-Age Ratings" and I still think that 'this' has _the_ most in-depth description when it comes to how to do age ratings on NG: https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/terms-of-use/art-guidelines (paragraph 'Content Ratings').

I can imagine how it came to that 'grid' we are presented with now: Most artists do not read the rules. At all. I can confidently say so, based on how our beloved users do 'various things'. Many seem to handle stuff on a basis of "trial and error". ("How was I supposed to know [that you expect me to read the rules that are linked right next to the upload buttons]?" etc.)
So the Moderation team probably asked for something fool-proof in the past.

But 'that system' still fails us so often, that I have been asked to 'keep it down with the reports for improper age ratings'... But writing about it to artists just gets me open hate, 'token compliance', and "Don't complain about it. If the Admins don't do anything about it that means it's fine"-backlash.

And rating everything zero where an artists has "framed the art in a wrong way" seems unnecessarily mean-spirited.

I appreciate artists who actually look into these things, but I'm pretty sure any solution that would require artists to read more than one extra sentence or cluttered up an interface would not be implemented.
My suggestion would be to ask Mr. Fulp ( https://tomfulp.newgrounds.com/ ) via PM for a definition and suggest that it could be made more clear "somehow".