Rating
Kusubooru is using a slightly stricter way of rating the posts compared to the other *booru sites. This is to prevent any future trouble. As you may know already, the first danbooru closed down because of certain explicit content.
General guidelines
Safe:You could look at this image with your family or let your kid view it without regrets.
Questionable:There might be certain elements on those pictures that would make you feel uncomfortable if you were viewing those in public, with your family or kids.
Explicit:Adult content. Better view in private.
Rule: Try to be strict with your rating. Do
not give the safe rating easily.
Rule: Do
not downrate images (Explicit->Questionable and Questionable->Safe) just because it feels safe for you.
Tickling specific guidelines
Follow those simple rules:
Rule 1: Any image that portraits or implies tickling is concidered not safe and thus has to be rated as questionable or explicit.
Rule 2: Any image that contains bondage even to the lightest versions is concidered not safe and thus has to be rated as questionable or explicit.
Rule 3: Tickling + Bondage = Explicit.
Rule 4: Tickling + Nudity = Explicit.
Rule 5: Tickling + Underage characters = Explicit.
Rule 6: Any combination of the above (eg Tickling + bondage + nudity) = Explicit.
Exceptions to the rules: Obviously depending on the style of each artist some subjects can be drawn in a 'safe' way. Those images can be be rated as safe. Nevertheless even if an image is drawn in a 'safe' style, if it contains stuff like (minor bondage, partial nutidy) then the questionable rating should be more suitable.
Before you decide on a rating ask those questions to yourself. "Would I let my kids view this content?", "Would I watch this content freely with my family?" If the answer is no for whatever reason then,
the content is not safe.
Examples of posts portraiting tickling and rated as safe:
>>521,
>>122 >>1401
Examples of posts that could be rated as safe but questionable is prefered because they portrait, tickling, minor bondage, underage characters, partial nutidy etc:
>>600,
>>813,
>>800
Examples of posts that normally would be rated as explicit because they contain, bondage, underage characters, tickling etc but they are rated as questionable because of the 'safe' drawing style of the artist:
>>638,
>>34
Changing an image rating from explicit to safe and not reverting it back will get you banned.
Violating any of the above rules will result in a ban.
Tip: You can access an image directly if you know it's id and then use: http://kusubooru.com/post/view/[image-id]