If my content is even questionable I mark it as NSFW just because I'd rather not have my content removed.

I don't know why I thought NSFW meant not safe for women /offtopic

Heh.

(that made me smile <<< adding this because 20 character limit >//>)

I alway feel like I'm making my work sound more dangerous when I tag it NSFW, because I only use the F word. I honestly don't know whether or not to just go old school and use symbols or what.

Well I don't think a boss would like to find employees reading comics at work anyways :C

My advice.

Dont, an Never.

If you have to result to vulgarity to make your point, it probably is not a point worth making.

flashes back to grandma beating me with a broomstick

my grandma is the one cursing all the time, I'm trying not to get the bad habit

Not writing for children, is not an excuse to not write intelligently.

Just because you are writing something for adults, does not mean it needs to be filled with sex, violence, and swearing.

And no, exual activity is not extremely important, it is barely regular level important., IT is people who write it to be the most important thing in the universe that give people the stupid impression that they need it or they will die. The over vzluiazation of sexx in society has gotten out of hand, you wont explode without sex, your
life will not end. Your existence still amounts to something if you havent poked something with your genitalia.

And just because violence exist, doesnt mean it needs to be gratuitous... Violence for its own sake serves no purpose in fiction.

Dont use "realism" as a shield, that is the same shield that people who write violent rape scenes use to rationalize their idiotic works. And when you put yourself on their level you are not making yourself look good.

@futureboundentertain, Just because sex isn't very important to you doesn't mean that it isn't important to many of the rest of us. Without sex I wouldn't have my two children so that's about as important as something can be in my life. the world can be a very violent place and sometimes to tell a story about violence you have to write it or draw it in a way that the visceral horror of that violent action is moving and terrifying to the audience. You talk about writing intelligently and yet if every author in the world wrote according to the rules you believe in we would lose in an enormous number of some of the greatest works of fiction ever created in any medium.

You can mark your series as NSFW when you make it. So in this case, do that, then mark your pages as NSFW.

How do you think comics like MeRanCoRi and Homo Sexience survived here when they were popular? Those comics were nothing but sexual innuendos and topics. But they didn't use their content as excuses to get away with not marking stuff NSFW. Everything that was vulgar, sexual, or elsewise offensive to certain parties was marked NSFW. They still followed the rules (not just Tapastic rules, but the rules of most countries that have laws in place to protect people in these sorts of situations).

You can still have comics oriented for adults, but you need to mark those series NSFW as well as their pages. This should be common sense at this point (plus as someone has already pointed out, just because your comic is more oriented for adults, doesn't mean you need to be slapping sexual shit on it and making them swear every other second. That doesn't make an adult comic, unless you're going for an adult comic, in which case, all you're doing is drawing hentai.)

And remember, NSFW isn't about sex and swearing and all those overkill things. It's about what you can or can't look at while at work, or what might get you in trouble while you're at work. That's why it's called Not Safe for Work. These could also be suggestive and sensitive topics, like comics about Nazi's in WWII or strong backlashes against the concept of religion - things that could offend or set people off in a work environment if seen.

No I can't. We're not all just like you and we're not all writing for you.

It's nice to see someone point out what NSFW actually means. The number of times I've had people accuse me of being sexist for marking pictures of bare-chested women NSFW is astounding., lmao.

Also just gonna throw it out there that sex is the reason we as a species exist. Without it our entire race would die out and cease to be, so, yeah, it is a fairly important and major part of life, and while I do wish it was handled a lot better in fiction, you can't negate its importance in life, and, as a result, the fiction we write in reflection of our own reality.

I've been mostly taking NSFW on this site to mean "adult oriented" and that includes colorful language. IRL I've been told the way I casually cuss at times makes me seem like an idiot. (I'm at peace with this, because I like to keep expectations low.) At the same time adults should be able to talk to each other how they deem appropriate at the time. If I make a comic where my character thinks a duck is part of a conspiracy to make his life hell, then said character will have some very colorful words for that duck. And it will be very appropriate for that situation. It can be very arbitrary at times.
Essentially, I think sex, cussing and violence all have a right time and place.

@abbastudios Thank you for the clarification, here (even though it started to get a little off topic at one point...). I feel like you may have had to sit through the same three-hour sexual harassment test –with videos included! – that I do every year at work...

For my comic I have characters who swear and I never marked it NSFW because, to be honest, once you get out of high school most people swear no matter if they are at work or not. It's not as big a deal in the grand scheme of things as we're made to believe while growing up.

@apocryphagraphics I wholeheartedly believe in making stories as real as possibly and not watering things down to appease everyone (because that's never going to happen), so I totally agree with your posts. Sex is a very important part of my comic, mainly because I believe more of us need to realize that it's not always a vulgar act.

@abbastudios thanks for clearing that up about the words. I feel it would be unfortunate to have to throw the NSFW on a page or series for just the occasional "shit" or "damn". I think you've done a lot here to clear up NSFW for those of us who read your post but I'm afraid that a lot of people out there on the web still see it and assume there's porn behind that link. For that reason I'm loathe to use it but I don't want anyone getting in trouble at work because they read my comic and of course I agreed to play by Tapastic's rules when I signed up.
@ErithEl I'm with you. If you're writing about people in the real world you're writing about relationships and if you have enough adult relationships in a realistic story sex is going to be a part of it one way or another. Unless of course it is willfully ignored. It's cool if it's not a big deal to some people but to most of us in the adult world it's a pretty huge deal. And while all sexuality is not beauty and roses, even the ugly side of it is a part of life and something artists are free to explore. Same with violence. I hate exploitation in comics, but explicit sex and violence CAN be a part of fine art. Just look at Watchmen!
@UzukiCheverie I disagreed with @futureboundentertain's advice to just leave explicit Sex and violence or anything NSFW out of a series because it's inherently dumb and vulgar and poor art. " Never" he said. This is a forum and he stated an opinion and I disagreed. That's called a conversation. Passionate disagreements are often how intelligent people interact. While it may have strayed a bit from the original post it is certainly not totally off the NSFW subject. I would challenge you to go back through my posts and find a place where I was anything but civil and thoughtful in my disagreement. I found his responses to be a bit closer to insulting than mine. But I'm a big boy and I can take it!

I question NSFW, especially for my story, I don't have a lot for it, but I do include violence, blood, and some foul language, but i still don't know if I should include NSFW. I just want to be safe since some people don't light seeing violence. o_______o

Thank you for clearing that up. I always wondered if I was using it right. Especially how the term's meaning has changed or well people have changed it to Violence and language.... Does that also include gore?

NSFW on Tapastic DOES include language and violence/gore. But unlike nudity, there seems to be a lot more lenience for language/violence that can be posted without the NSFW tag. With nudity, if you show a female nipple (for example), it's automatically NSFW. But violence? Unless it's really graphic, it's acceptable without the tag.

My rule of thumb is that stuff that is acceptable in a generic action-movie will probably pass without the nsfw-tag. Fist-fights, sword-fights, guns, etc., - all acceptable, as long as you don't include too many gory details of dismembered bodies or exploded brains and whatnot.

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

This one is subject to an interesting cultural divide (as is nudity, for that matter; I'm Swedish, nudity is not as censored here as it is in the US). We don't, as a rule, bleep swearing, unless it's a show specifically aimed at children, or one that's been imported and is therefore already bleeped. Swearing is simply not something we care much about.

HOWEVER, being on the internet, I realise that while I can get away with "damn" and profanity of a similar level, there are clearly some words that warrant an nsfw-tag to comply with Tapastic's rules.

I just use not work safe for everything. My work doesn't have nudity but it does have foul language. And people are so sensitive about everything today, it's better to give them fair warning and not deal with any sort of flame war in the future.

My pet is a Balrog. Flame wars are my specialty.

It's actually funny, they used to bleep shows over here, but they stopped doing that, and mostly just restricted shows that had excessive swearing to 18+, in which case they didn't need to do it.

The only show I can think of that still uses the bleeping is Trailer Park Boys and I'm pretty sure they just use it ironically half the time Even Family Guy has stopped using it lol

HOWEVER, being on the internet, I realise that while I can get away with "damn" and profanity of a similar level, there are clearly some words that warrant an nsfw-tag to comply with Tapastic's rules.

The word bitch has always been an allowed word, it seems, and I think it's because it has an actual original dictionary definition, vs. the word "fuck" lol Which is the "starting word" from when people start censoring, from my own experience (although I get these things vary from country to country).

My comic is generally "safe" and the most it has going for it (and that I really feel like doing at this point) are some occasional swears. That's a reason I'd feel kind of weird about putting NSFW on pages that just contain one instance of "fuck" or "shit" (and definitely having to put it on my entire comic itself), people might think much more is going on than actually is. Then again, I usually don't consider swearing in itself a big deal.

Yeah, it's pretty much the same situation here in Norway, which is probably why swearing is not a huge deal for me or most people I know here. Excessive swearing is more "annoying" and "unnecessary" than "offensive".

Regarding the NSFW tag, I really think we should have specific content tags (say, "nudity", "violence", "sexual situations", "language" ect.) instead of just one generic "NSFW" flag that can be everything and anything. Makes the actual content more clear, instead of a vague "alright, this might contain nudity, or strong violence, or possibly just some swearing, or all of them? Which one is it?" (Also since a lot of people associate the NSFW term mainly with nudity/porn) Especially because people might not want to read about one of the "NSFW" topics but are fine with others. Say, you don't mind nudity and innuendo, but feel uncomfortable with excessive blood and gore. So you see a comic you're reading has "NSFW" on its newest strip, and while you don't know why it's tagged you just assume it's some nudity or a dirty joke or whatever since this is the most the comic has done so far, but instead you get treated to extremely violent images you weren't prepared for at all.

Ressurecting this topic. Is there anyways to when someone click to show the image of a NSFW comic to show all images of the series? I am to release a new serie that has some violence and reference from drugs, but not to much and looking for some NSFW comics in tapastic I saw that every image is locked and I have to click to show each one.

@toonsfera I think you can change this if you go to the Settings. On top of that list is Reading Options, and you can choose to have the NSFW filter on/off, but then they write under it: "We'll always ask whether or not you want to see content tagged NSFW", so that seems contradictory? You can try and see what happens

EDIT: My bad! If you change the NSFW filter to off, then the text beneath it changes to "We'll display NSFW content.", so it just tells you what happens when you turn it on/off. Changing these settings should do the trick then!

Yes! much better! Thanks! ^^