drug use →
questionable
I’d like to raise the question of whether bongs and drug use should fall under the
safe tag. The descriptions for
safe and
questionable both raise the issue of work safety, but describe only sexual scenarios. However, leaving aside the issue of
who in the world is actually browsing Derpibooru at work, the safe tag is a defining characteristic of the default filter, which “should hide images that would exceed the show’s own rating”.
The TV Parental Guidelines (the system that gives FiM its TV-Y rating) concerns itself only with violence, language, and sex. They are completely silent regarding drug use. However, the MPAA movie rating system requires an absence of drug use in movies rating G or PG, implying that any such scene would bring a movie up to at least PG-13. I think that the two systems are alike enough in purpose that we can reasonably infer that, the wink-and-nod antics of Tree Hugger and such aside, on-screen drug use would imply a shift in the show’s rating.
In short, I think that drug-related tags should imply
questionable.
However, even if the general suggestion is accepted, there is room for discussion and further aliasing regarding the details. For example, at the moment,
marijuana →
drugs and
lsd →
drugs, but neither implies
drug use (which may be fair), and neither
alcohol nor
drug use implies anything. Whether an empty
bong is sufficient to imply drug use is also debatable.
Whatever those finer details are determined to be, I think that in light of the show’s rating and the concept of work safety expressed in the tag descriptions, tags that fall within this domain do not belong in
safe.