Sounds like an excuse for mods to go through 10 years worth of art LOL

"I'm being productive, I'm looking for policy violations!"

There is a term for that. Anal retentive.

Wow!
They said they would be going thru things for the updated policies,
somehow I just didn’t believe it.

they probably rely on volunteers or accident sightings for that...

I was going to say, my best guess is that someone reported them.

It's turning into Mrs Grundy around here. You notice the polices never move in the direction of more liberal? Ghodd knows the female nipple with destroy 'Murica. Heaven forbid that (shudder) any boy bits be seen!

It's stupid, and vile.

My guess is that someone randomly stumbled across it and reported it. But still, that's dumb.

Hey Sandy...I appreciate where you're coming from here...getting dinged on 10 year old art is a little ridiculous, and my best guess is that someone must have reported it...but...to me...I would think that hints of sheath and such maybe should have been set Mature to begin with? I mean, Adult would be outright silly in such cases, and again, I think getting dinged on art that old is weird (though no way of knowing whether anyone checked the age of the art), but I'm not sure 'hints of' should technically be considered all-ages art?

I dunno, maybe I'm being overly-conservative?

Perhaps so. I will certainly be more careful in the future!

You're lucky the pics remained, Sandy. I got a couple pics in my SCRAPS removed back in December because they were screenshots, which apparently aren't permitted on FA. And the reasons they gave me were some of the weakest-minded garbage I've ever heard a human being come up with.

There's literally people on FA staff that are scouring the site every day to find the stupidest crap to whine about and remove or change it so they aren't butthurt. In my opinion from my near 14 years here, I've never felt more like a victim of a gestapo or concentration camp than I have in my time here on FA.

That must be a fun job!!

Someone reported those pieces and the mods went in and changed the rating. It might not be bad to go back through your art, but don't expect the mods to come down on you hard.

Source: was a mod. Unless things have drastically changed, they aren't scouring folks' entries, there are too many people for that. Literally. They generally go after reported pieces.