Indeed, it shouldn’t be, but badly done, lowest-common-denominator moderation without transparency, control, or recourse is. I’m not saying that’s where we are, or necessarily where we’re going (we can hope!), but large platforms have a pretty consistent history of going exactly that way. It’s hard to think of examples that have not.
Look at it like this: If there is a law banning it, or a government agency says no go that would be censorship. Removing content because it violates guidelines is moderation. Flagging it NSFW isn’t either, its just filtering, because its still there.
If this thread were deleted because we all complained about it, that would be censoring the discourse in my eyes. Keeping things inside the guardrails is what is happening and I have no concerns with it..
I’m all for freedom of expression, but there is a time and place for it. The people who run MakerWorld have determined it isn’t the place for everything and are starting to sweep it up. If I want the spicy stuff, I know where to get it. When I can’t get to that stuff because the government says I can’t then I’ll have a problem.
It is neither language barrier nor confusion, but rather intention, as shown by the user’s post on another thread. That post seems to indicate the user is fully aware and specifically made NSFW content to gain points.
The post also try to justify it by using a similar logic that drug dealers use - that they are simply the suppliers for a market demand.
So don’t automatically believe when someone says they are confused, or they meant to flag their models as NSFW but somehow the tagging didn’t work. More likely than not, they specifically made these NSFW or even por nography models to gain points and they don’t want to tag them as such so as to get a wider audience.