It's time for the ratings system to change for the better. I cannot tell you how many good people you are driving away with confusing and arbitrary ratings.
I have seen several people get BANNED because of arbitrary decisions based on ratings of their images while others rate images the same way and are fine. This is not cool. When you make the decision to add a category to your ratings that is different from other sites, it is imperative that your ratings either remain consistent or have explicit guidelines.
Honestly, I'd prefer at this point that the rating system just be changed to be like other sites so that it's not confusing and people don't have to worry about putting things in the wrong rating and getting banned.
The site is, unfortunately, not large enough to be alienating its userbase with this, of all things. It's hard enough drawing people in when they are often discouraged by the lack of activity, but then you push people away with this.
And considering I am writing this in an emotional state, I probably didn't even really bring up the points that I wanted to, but I am just feeling so defeated lately.
Get your shit together