So when various respondents above explain the difference between adult and mature genres, or I explain how smut is applied, we're referring to the effective consensus of the MU userbase, the wisdom of the crowds. Would it be nice if someone updated the genre page to reflect how genres are actually applied at this point? Sure. But it isn't a necessity.
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This just further serves to prove my point that the genres are confusing and should be ratified in some manner, either the names, the descriptions, or some other solution.
There's already a solution: when users see that a series is tagged inappropriately given how the tag is commonly used, they fix it. There's never going to be a strict prescriptivist approach to genre-tagging on MU, both because the number of moderators is far too small to deal with the 100,000+ series in the database, and because many series aren't readily available for moderator review.
If you're not comfortable making a particular decision yourself, it's perfectly acceptable for you to leave it to other users to decide. That's certainly my preference for the borderline cases.
@svines85 - Thanks.
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