FA and Pixiv VS Deviant Art

Not really. I've seen fairly benign stuff, where the smut-elements are only implied, get yanked from DA, while uncensored photographs of human genitals are allowed to remain. The issue with Da is less its strictness, and more the totally inconsistent standards of the mods.

...DA is pretty accepting, as far as I've seen. Of course there are people who think its sicks and shit, but come on, you have to admit that this fetish is pretty weird. Anyways, DA has the most exposure and is pretty easy to use, so I like hosting my work there.

Yeah, DA is fine, as long as you put anything too bad up. They clearly define what is 'not appropriate' in their FAQ, and they can only complain if they don't like it.

However, I have heard stories of touchy, immature mods on DA, but haven't bumped into any yet.

Yea, I find it kind of funny that they delete inflation art sometimes when there's FAR worse on DA. In fact I think inflation art is some of the tamest art out there, I mean its pretty much just girls with bigger breasts/butt or like violet. I find it rather amusing how a lot of people like pictures of women with breast implants and that's fine to them, but oh no if you say they get big breasts from air instead of saline than that's just wrong somehow.

The banning system must work like so:
1: you hate a picture.
2: you find something about it to whine to the mods about.
3: get all your friends to do it.
4: pic gets banned.

I know this for a fact cause around the same time that CattyN got banned for something that wasn't really that bad at all. (I know the pic in question was about clothed fondling)
They allowed full frontal shots of people having sex as well as other genital shots even though they're purposefully done to make a sexual picture.

IMO on another small note about the situation, I feel that DA has turned some really good artists into people with overinflated egos. (excuse the pun). It just feels like a popularity contest each time I go there.

I'm not sure how the two things can mix myself, but somehow I haven't seen much inflation stuff that appeals to me on DA in years.

I am a bit picky on what I like but heck... I don't like full furries that much and I've seen more decent inflation content on FA.

The whole thing is just one of those mysteries I quit trying to figure out XD

I stay away from Fur Affinity just due to it's name alone. I'm sorry... but I just feel kinda' "ugh" about furry stuff most of the time, so I'd rather not frequent a place where I'm more than likely to be surrounded by it.

Pixiv is pretty free in what it allows. There is the censoring of the genitals thing to keep in mind, but it honestly seems somewhat of a moot point and rarely enforced. Some artists go the full length with pixelation. Others I've seen put in a very tiny (almost comical) black bar that could easily be Photoshopped out if one wanted.

From what I've experienced with DA rules. Those rules are fairly set but they seem somewhat slanted and absurd to me. They ban most images of erect genitalia (which makes it hard to post male erotic art), any kinds of insertions, they're pretty squidgy about bodily fluids like cum and even pee (I've had some of mine taken down for this). I think the one that many inflation artists would run into would be the whole insertion thing. A hose inserted into a woman's nether regions could easily violate this rule.

I'll keep using DA (even going so far as to provide Photoshop edited versions of some of my works to fall within guidelines)... but I do like the freedom of places like Pixiv. Not only on the issues of sexual images and insertions... but also the fact that there's no issues regarding "sexual images of minors" where mods get their panties in a bunch thinking your characters look "too young".