BraixenArchivist said:
Yup... I've noticed that of what I've uploaded things that are sexual tend to get much more attention.
My top 10 uploads by score right now are only 60% safe posts, despite 95% of my posts being rated safe. The safe posts that do best are usually suggestive in some way (though there are a few that are just really cute).
Under a quarter of all Braixen posts uploaded here are safe, which I find highly unlikely to be a good statistical representation of all Braixen fanart.
I guess most users just use this site for porn.

Score is more obviously affected by that fact.
fluffy_pony order:score is full of porn and anthro.
fluffy_pony order:favcount gives me some quality abuse among porn.

What I don't know is whether they don't check rating:s posts at all, or just don't cast votes or faves since e621 doesn't show total post views.

UseTheBlacklist said:
Score is more obviously affected by that fact.

I was considering using favcount when I made that post but it doesn't make much of a difference.
One artist I'm following recently shared an explicit drawing which I posted here about 9 hours ago, in that time it has shot up into my top 10 favorited (but not scored) uploads.
Now my top 10 favorited is similarly only 60% safe.