There must be a way around that. Imgur's advertising seems to be pretty standard, but they have gigabytes of nude and/or violent photos uploaded on a weekly basis.
Would it hurt your traffic too much to not have it displayed so prominently on the front page?
I would display a big picture of a nun on the homepage if it made advertisers happy about the rest of the site. I have been talking to ad people for a while now and I can't seem to get around it. But I will continue to try.
I tried some searches on imgur and nothing nasty comes up. On Twicsy it is very easy to get nasty stuff to appear.
Looks like imgur uses Google Adsense, they have cut me off several times.
Yeah, imgur must have all the NSFW content hidden from their own search. Anyone who knows how to use Reddit will know where to find the NSFW stuff they've swept under the rug though, so I'm surprised that's enough for Adsense to give it the OK -- Reddit users are probably 90%+ of imgur's audience.
Maybe you need to do the same thing: set up an "un-affiliated" website that allows you find all the 18+ content on Twicsy, haha
I believe Imgur gets around it by flagging the NSFW content and then doesn't load the ad display code on it. Not sure how that gels with the AdSense guidelines however but if they're still using AdSense then it can't be that much of a problem.
Would it hurt your traffic too much to not have it displayed so prominently on the front page?