A long-standing complaint about #Danbooru is that the "Safe" rating isn't actually safe. It includes too much lewd content. It's also a frequent source of confusion for new users that "Safe" doesn't mean SFW. This has come up various times in the past, both on the forum (topic #18572, topic #20849) and in the Discord.
I've thought this over a lot, and my proposal is this:
Add a new "General" rating, for G-rated ( https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/G%E2%80%93rated ) content. Rename the current "Safe" rating to something else. "Sensitive", "Suggestive", or something else entirely. Move posts from "Safe" to "General". Essentially, carve out the subset of rating:safe that is actually safe and move it to a new rating.
rating:G would be for things like scenery, innocent comics, portraits, chibis, fully clothed characters, cute animals, pokemon creatures, mecha, no humans posts, etc. Things that have no sexual content whatsoever. Things that are completely safe for work, or safe to view in front of other people in any other context.
rating:S would be for any kind of ecchi, sexy, risque, or suggestive content, even mildly so. Anything not rated G. Things like revealing clothes, swimsuits, lingerie, underwear, pantyshots, cameltoes, covered nipples, and things heavily focused on the ass, breasts, cleavage, feet, armpits, etc. Basically anything focused on sexy anime girls.
I can already hear people saying "Hey, that's really strict, things like swimsuits aren't necessarily lewd". The point is to draw a distinction between completely innocent content, like scenery or comics or cute things, and the "sexy" content that makes up the majority of Danbooru.
I expect only maybe 10%-15% of posts to be rated G. Most posts currently rated Safe would stay at their current rating. Keeping the new rating extremely narrow makes the job of re-rating posts easier.
Obviously, this would be a major change, and re-rating posts, figuring out where to draw the line in different situations, getting everybody on-board with the new system would be a lot of work. But it's something that I think is worth it and that needs to be done.
