Removing my original response, see updated response below!
Oh, so now we can't have any genitals in what we depict, even if we don't care to be featured on the app? This is completely not consistent with what I was told when this site began. Of course, I'm not surprised; sites like this enjoy forming their foundations with the work of more daring authors, then they decide they're too good for us. Even when it's something completely mundane like nudity, which is not sex and cannot be legally conflated with it.
If that's the case, I'll be leaving the site, but I will certainly not be censoring my work any more than I already do. I wish I could say it was a pleasure, but it wasn't.
its generally more because tapas was removed from the apple play store multiple times at this point.
So?
I don't care. I don't work for Apple, and they don't compensate me for my work. I also didn't ask for inclusion in the app store, and additionally, Tapas have hidden us from results long before they had their app store issues. They deserve zero loyalty from someone they have never been willing to support.
They use our creative work to cash in, which we see a fraction of, if we see anything...which is unlikely and exceedingly rare.
Well, Tapas does need their app support, even more now that they get no money when ink is donated to artists. It does suck that it has to be like this, and I do hope your next place has more open guidelines, but that ends up happening eventually when the mobile audience is the biggest draw and you can't keep getting banned because Apple's moderation legitimately is horrible for everyone(re: Artstation getting banned for things they didn't show openly on the app but Apple insisted they did and didn't budge).
Hola! I'm actually going to revise my response regarding this. If you want to continue to show non sexual nudity and do not care to be shown on the app and only on web, that is okay!
However, we'll have to implement a way for creators to let us know when they want to use non-sexual nudity, so we can take them off the app. I'll work on that with my team next week to discuss how that can work best.
Will we be getting a notification somewhere besides these forums? I don't have this type of nudity as of now, but I never wanted to be part of the app, regardless of nudity.
I'm not here on the forum side very often: I have a lot of other stuff going on, so it'd be nice to know how to opt out of the app. It's confusing to me, because some stuff is announced here on the forums, but I feel it really should be announced on the comic part of this site (side-note: why are these separated like this? Are their plans to consolidate the updates/responses? Just curious).
Anyway, I hope we receive an update, because the last thing I want is to be accused of being non-compliant, when all policy changes are announced in the forum.
(Edit: This is not to say Tapas doesn't do the announcement elsewhere, this is just the first time I've even heard of the newer update. If it's not going to be announced in our feed, I think that's very negligible on Tapas: how can we comply, if we're not informed? And to be honest, I'm not super active in these forums and I think there are many others who are also not here a lot. I talk more to commenters and creators on their actual comic pages.)
Thank you for your time and response.
The update has been announced on the forums, on your creator dashboard (where it should be visible right now still) and on Twitter. If there are major changes, these will also be the channels through which you will be notified.
Ah, okay, I see it. I didn't realize that's where those announcements went. I prefer a "notification," but that's fine. I probably just missed it.
Thank you for your time.
Hey hi hello! 
I remember that I told I do not want to participate in discussions anymore, so you can call my behavior inconsistent... 
but I just decided to make a change in my personal guidelines toward premium series discussions (yes, I constrantly change my guidlines. But, of course, only for the best of reasons, to make Tapas even better place 
). 
Today I wanted to discuss new guidelines applications to a beautiful premium series
Funny comics, btw. Well-developed sci-fi style, good art quality. I read it and even spent ink on buying it.
BUT I can't forget how in the very first issue of it I saw...
...the issue.
I didn't put it under "mature" tag for the only very reason - because it wasn't put under mature tag in original Premium series, which itself is not in Mature section either. I believe, that even if my rotten mind see here a beautiful male's private part, it's not what creators meant. They wouldn't violate honest and thoughtful community guidelines about not-sexual nudity, right?
So, probably, it's actually not a private part, but just android's secret weapon or something? What do you think?
Perhaps the line should be amended to say "uncensored depiction of extreme violence, detailed human genitals or sex acts including penetration are not allowed in comics"?
Cuz I say that's basically on the level of Crayon Shin-chan, and it's somewhat obfuscated by the mist. Also this episode came out way before the new guidelines did.
Perhaps the series' editor didn't see it if they reviewed the episode zoomed out? It could be a number of factors. We can only guess since the creator doesn't frequent the forum.
I have few questions:
Language:
- If comic uses profanity/obscene language, but it's censored like " * * * * " or " d * * * " shall comic still be marked as mature despite being censored that way... ?
- ...even if it's used in non-sexual context like character calling somebody this way in fit of rage?
- If speech has sexual undertones, but doesn't outright mention genitalia or sex-related words (including slang), showing characters more like flirting/teasing, shall it still be marked as mature?
Art:
- If sex scene is completely censored - like panel is fully black or characters are not seen at all (like in cinema shot moves to window/sky/thing), but it's logically implied that characters have/had sex should it still be marked as mature?
- If character is shown being nude, but he/she is covering themselves with something (towel/hands) and genitalia/areola is fully covered that way - shall it be marked as mature?
- Does scenes involving foreplay while characters are still dressed (no genitalia is shown) call for Mature tag?
Like these:
Thanks for answers in advance!
Since it took multiple zooms for me to notice that, I'm suspecting that slipped by. Feel free to report the page so our team can review it.
@lidiash
None of what you describe sounds like something that needs the mature tag from our rule standpoint.