NSFW Softcore tag

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softcore  
can we please get a description added to this tag, so it’s clear what falls into the category?
 
that being said, what does?  
is every sex scene without being overly visually explicit applicable?
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I mean, I never used or even knew we had the tag. It only has 88 pics, so, doesn’t seem many others did either.
 
Anyway, traditionally, softcore is generally anything basically without cunnilingus, blowjobs, cum, or explicit penetration.
 
Then, whether or not the grey space stuff of vaginas pointed at camera or fucking erections count as softcore pretty much gets you a fucking shrug and a laugh. The term doesn’t even have a consistent use for IRL porn after like 70 years, I doubt we’re solving it here.
 
 
Also, tbh I don’t think it’s a tag many will really care about
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@Rdobet  
Of course, this isn’t going to solve the issue, but based on my personal experience and consistent with what’s tagged…
 
I’d define it as explicit scenes without visible genitals (or fluids). In other words, it’d be questionable if not for the fact that sex is happening. The only image currently tagged that doesn’t fit this definition is the “expand dong” style meme that uses the word “softcore.”
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@Rdobet  
Maybe. But since we can make our own definitions for things (we have a casual nudity tag, we split ratings into 3 levels of sexuality as opposed to the usual 2, we have a tag for “sex” beyond all that), where you ask is a question best answered by “the users here on the site.”
 
And according to the images in the tag, they unanimously point to the definition I proposed, as though they’d been using it all along. This is pretty rare, I’ve seen tags with less than a dozen images that struggle to be so self-evident, let alone one with 88 images in it.
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@Background Pony #0849  
It’s more just that it’s not really needed, like, most people looking for porn will just search like, explicit, and then done. Maybe like solo female, explicit if they’re really clever (some sarcasm here)
 
If they’re , iunno, looking for lewd stuff, but morally opposed to genitals or something, they can just search questionable.
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@Rdobet  
you don’t seem to understand the destinction
 
questionable is for no sex is happening
 
softcore is supposed to be for sex that is happening but does not have graphic detail
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@Background Pony #C680  
Softcore also includes no sex happening. And sometimes even if no sex is happening it may still be considered hardcore depending on whether they’re rubbing themselves or something or depending on whom you ask. xD
 
That’s one of my problems, it not really explicitly defined. It’s more just been “ehh, this is what we’ll market it as.”
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@Rdobet  
There were (as of the time I’m posting this comment) 14 softcore images not tagged “sex.” Half of them were clear cases of simply missing the tag, one is a case of the word being used, leaving only 5 images that weren’t immediately obvious as sex happening. It’s interesting to note that these few leftovers are the only images in the tag not rated as explicit… it really wouldn’t take much to make a call on those images, one way or the other.
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The tag is on barely over 100 pics, and almost all of them added by one user. I’m not sure it has any real purpose that our rating tags don’t already cover.
 
Not to mention its definition can change depending on where you ask. and covers anything from simply someone standing there nude [explicit] someone topless [questionable] or doing sexy poses in underwear [suggestive].
Background Pony #ED47
Sorry but I have to necro this  
If you look at the recent changes to the tag it was deleted from a whole lot of pictures that actually fit the pattern previously discussed:  
Sex going on but no genital contact visible / would be questionable if not for sex happening
 
Cannot really blame Atriark for deleting it from submissions they thought shouldn’t have it as it’s still unclear what it stands for and they probably had something else in mind.
 
Can you mods / admins please just decide and then put the baseline fact of what it should be in the description so the use is clear? Please?
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