Gore, Mutilation, Beastiality, Necrophilla, and Porn need explanations

Hi there,

Heavy title but I do think these topcies need more explaination within the Imzy community and I would like to explain why. I think I can assume that Imzy does not want to support these things (which I am not arguing against) but the lack of more explanation will lead to more confusion and I think a more limiting website down the road.

For reference, I am refering to a section in the community policy which simple states:

*Gore, Mutilation, Bestiality, or Necrophilia

Don't post the mutilation, torture, or abuse of human beings, animals, or their remains. It's not okay, and this doesn’t require any explanation.

I am just going to go down the list and talk about questions that arose for me when I read this. Plus, I'll be tacking on porn because I think it also lacks more explanation.

Gore: I wasn't actually sure what Gore meant when I read that. I googled Gore and needless to say I was presented with very real and unpleasant images. But I also found fantasy and illustrated works. Does Gore only apply to posting photos of real people? If so, what if for example, an Imzy community wants to raise awarness about the suffering of people or animals and have photographic examples or illustrated examples? For example, there are illustrated drawings of a North Korean who escape and illustrated what he experienced in a prison camp. His experiences include the torture and abuse of human beings. What about historical illustrations on torture and the gorey-ness of war? Or what about a fantasy illustration of a hero disemboweling an evil beast and the artist chose to have guts come out?

Mutilation Similar to the arguements I bring up in Gore. What comes to mind is Female and Male genital mutilation. I don't support either of those but I do support a community bringing awareness to them. Awareness can involve photographic examples of genital mutilation. On a more personal point, I believe that male circumcision in the US is genital mutilation and should be illegal to perform on boys. Most sites don't see it that way but under the Imzy general blanket of "just mutilation" should I consider reporting that? Reaching for an example now but what about extreme body art? People consent to crazy stuff to be done to their own bodies like heavy piercing and skin streching. I consider that their personal choice but what if others don't? Mutilation needs more explanation for that reason to support awareness and personal choices.

Bestiality Again, I think I can safety guess what Imzy means by no Bestiality such as no photos or support groups for it. But again, not offering an explanation leaves questions. What about mythology? There is a lot of beautiful old artwork that involves bestiality. For example, Zeus having sex with a woman as a goose and there are consentual and non-consentual versions of this. Or, ever since Loki got popular in Marvel, there are tons of jokes about how in his mythology he has sex with a horse to give birth to Sleipnir, an eight legged horse. The modern artwork, generally from DeviantART, may not show the act but certainly are saying it happened. Without an explanation, where is that line? I hear it said that Furries are just into Bestiality which I don't believe but if I did I think I would have grounds to try and get Furry groups removed from Imzy without any explanation from Imzy.

Necrophilia Without an explanation I might not even know what that means. I don't think users should have to google something to understand a policy. What if googling that topic brings up nastier examples of what Imzy can describe? Does this policy also apply to fantasy Necromancers? Again reaching for an extreme example, there was a movie in 2013 called Warm Bodies which was a romance comedy set in a zombie apocalypse where a living girl and a zombie boy fall in love. I never saw the movie but what if there was a scene that implied they got more intimate? A final example/question I have is I own a comic book about the Green River Killer who killed and mutilated the bodies of 48 women. The story was meant to be an accurrate account of the events following the life of a worker on the case. There were not in the act illustrations of necrophila but that's what the Green River Killer did. The comic illustrated bodies that had been violated and addressed how communities and people recover and cope when these crimes happen. Is the discussion of actual events and the serious mental illness of Necrophilla not allowed?

Porn Almost done! Porn is only described as "In general, we define pornography as imagery whose primary or sole purpose is sexual arousal, and we reserve the right to remove content that is brought to our attention as we see fit." I think that definition is too vague as sexual arousal means something different to different people. Imzy removing content brought to their attention as they seem fit will likely lead to frustrated users. What if a user has been posting sexual images for a while. They may not consider it pornographic but as they become more popular on Imzy, their content starts getting reported. All of sudden, their content is removed and really, their entire time on Imzy building a profile has been wasted. DeviantArt has clear examples of what they define as porn http://help.deviantart.com/565/ Although graphic to read, there is less room for confusion.

That's it, thanks for reading. Please don't believe I am defending that these topics should be allowed without restriction. What I think is that "this doesn't require explanation" is not sufficient for website policies. More true of Imzy which is trying to make a better place. I was a long time Imgur user and finally left because comments would make me feel so shitty. Not even comments directed at me just the same general hateful garbage. I found out about Imzy in a Times article and I want this place to succeed.

TL;DR Imzy has to provide furthur explanation on these topics to avoid user confusion and debate about policy interpretation.