lol I believe in safe > sorry.
Used to be looser, until some users told me how they felt stuff was getting out of hand (some of them didn't feel safe about seeing stuff on SWF around public eyes <_<)
See there's a spectrum:
-light stuff: ex. the Pikachu w/ the ketchup bottle splurts/ the Chocolate zangoose + Lucario, I let those on. Were they innuendos? Yes, of course, but I felt they were too ambiguous for people to get into trouble with. I let these fly by.
-Stuff like risqué wearing/stuff like that was questionable (ecchi, bulges/stripping/revealing), I went about these at my discretion, which according to the public rules, the objective is "Family-safe" content. Good luck at keeping this obv., but oh well.
-Then there was blatant explicit content posted, things that were pretty much porno.
How close is the general concensus of "appropriate" is?
Remember those pictures of the "censored" pornography with the crudely MS paint/adobe edited porn pictures replaced with something funny like a woman "mending the pants" of a man? I thought they were personally "questionable" to the point where I couldn't make an accurate call, so I submitted them. Most mods said that since they were extremely suggestive to anyone who could put two and two together, and also had none of the "site sources" cropped, and therefore had to be taken down.
It's mod's discretion, so I don't see how that's "making up the rules".
For a reference, here's the SWF Global rules:
http://www.smashboards.com/announcement.php?f=231&a=186