@burmn123:
Ecchi gets used for panty-flashing and moderately lewd flirtation... There is a huge difference for a good portion of readers between that and this sort of "by the way they have sex" develoment,
even if the sex-scenes are fairly tasteful and tame (and in fact may fall
below the usual bar for ecchi as far as erotic intent goes). That's why it was the "mature" tag, not the "oh no it's filthy" tag XD
Anyway, I'm aware that using "smut" for that—to mean "mature content"—is totally incorrect, as you might have gathered from my original post. It wasn't my idea to do so. The resulting confusion is bad. It is, however, the
de facto current state of affairs on the site.
@Kafka:
I am aware an overhaul has been in the works for some time. All above commentary is with regards to the site under the current state of the system (that is, as it has been for the past year or so at least?).