After rereading my comment about the mature designation, and your response, it's clear that I didn't do a very good job at explaining my point. I thought that by separating out mature content from the rest, we made it harder for users to post anything of an adult nature and have it viewed by the general population.

This was because we didn't have a good, community guideline for what "mature" meant, and rarely did everyone agree. In order to protect users who didn't want to see mature content, almost *anything* that could remotely be considered mature was often flagged, and the decisions that were acted out by TOUGuy were often seen as overreacting. There were a lot of unhappy people.

Now, there is a standard. It allows users to discuss FAR more adult topics out in the open that we didn't have before, post nude pictures (as long as they aren't sexually explicit), have heated debate with stronger language, and remove the tribes that discussed and contained images of breast feeding from the mature zone.

Also, I feel that Tribe contains a more alternative/freak/etc community than other online places, and that by not forcing mature content to be separated from the rest, and putting the flagging tools in the hands of that community empowers users to impact their own standard. For the rest, there's private mode.

And, at the risk of being too long-winded, I'll point out craigslist has a similar prohibition in their TOU as our own. While they do have a warning page in front of casual encounters, they also have this:

from www.craigslist.org/about/te....use.html :

b) that is pornographic or depicts a human being engaged in actual sexual conduct including but not limited to (i) sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex, or (ii) bestiality, or (iii) masturbation, or (iv) sadistic or masochistic abuse, or (v) lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of any person;

I am also enjoying this dialogue Mickey, I'm sorry for not being able to revisit this tribe as often during the day.