There is actually a pretty nice debate going on about this exact subject on the forums right now.

https://forums.weasyl.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?5461-So-about-that-quot-General-Art-Site-quot-goal

I know the feeling. Unfortunately, I have all but stopped participating in the community at large.
But as a mod, I'm trying to if nothing else, make a better and safer space than FA where people can post their stuff. Tastelessness notwithstanding lol.

I'll admit the amount of fetish art -has- kind of turned me off at times :/

Though at least when it comes to categorizing, I like that Weasyl has so many filtering options. Custom Tag filters are really something I reccomend.

Nowdays, I pretty much browses only with quite a couple of tags filters to avoid the content I dislike the most and, as ironic as it might sound, I've generally found I enjoyed the quality of the art when I was browsing when the max maturity allowed setting set at "13+ maximum".

I thought it was going to be obvious that this is the direction that this portal will take regardless of official intentions.

Vast majority of Weasyl users consists of Furaffinity artists who decided to leave for a better organized site with more competent staff and administrators - hence this is why their produce ends up here.

I knew what I was going to sign up for, so I'm neither surprised nor appalled. =D

I have been noticing the same thing. Until the turn of the year, I could see some real decent art just on the main page, and would have 5+ tabs open to see the rest of that person's art to see if I really want to watch them. Now, I don't even bother looking as it's the same terrible crap on the front page of FA. Yeah, my art isn't the greatest. Believe me, I know. It's why I don't upload much of anything. But it has gotten bad lately. I may have to figure out how to do those filters so I can hopefully filter out much of the crap to maybe (at least for me) make the site look better.

This has turned into just another FA, it would seem. And that makes me sad. If DA's layout was better, I would probably stick to that place. At least it has a bigger variety than just fetish porn.

I don't nearly see as much "fetish" related things that I do at FA, but this is a furry site, or that's what it's become. Furries are going to post their fetishes it's what the fandom is known for unfortunately. The only time you're not going to see that on a site full of furries is when anything adult rated is banned. Tumblr has plenty of fetishes unless you're blocking them with tags.

Doesn't help that FA has fucked up alot at the beginning of this year and alot of artists have tried or are trying to move over here from that site. Some of them draw nothing but fetishes. It was going to happen at some point, the bigger the site got.

I definitely agree when I joined just a few months back to follow a few people who were thinking of jumping here from dA I thought this was a nice site that was starting to grow. Back then I even got a few comments here and there after deciding to post here and I genuinely thought this place would continue to grow into a nice small community.
While I think I've been lucky to be spared from the worst of it since I keep my rating filter at moderate I'm starting to think I won't be able to use this site as a secondary site to post art on. Every time I browse these days I end up blacklisting more and more tags which gets really annoying plus I have to click the offending images I'm trying to block just to see what tag I can block out..

I'm holding out hope maybe this site can be turned around, but I'm just about given up and only check my inbox for a couple people I follow only on here and not on other sites and for the rare fav/comment/follow I get on my own art. A real shame though cuz that means I'll again be stuck to solely dA for posting art. :c

I... don't know what to say. Other than filtering Adult/Explicit 18+, there's going to be a lot of fetish stuff on any art site that allows adult material. From what I've seen most folks that make explicit art don't want to have to be split across two sites.

I just upload everything I draw here since I can. On DA I can't (although they have wonderful double-standards on the subject) so I only upload what's allowed. Other than stricter enforcing of keywords and labels (which I think they do a fairly good job of already) I'm not sure there's much they can do other than prohibit /all/ adult artwork. At which point, well, they'll lose a lot of folks.

I really can't think of any way to make a site "fetish free" while allowing explicit adult art work, unless you're going to lay out in very specific terms what you do/don't consider fetish material and ban anything that falls under fetish.

FiIters aside, I no longer feel I can link potential clients or art friends to this site knowing theyre not furries and wouldn't understand the amount of fetish illustrations on the front page. I knew for a fact i wasnt linking anybody to fA and was hoping wA could have taken the place of dA. I've since taken this site off my business cards.

Drawcrowd is certainly one of the better ones, I certainly cried when cghub went down ;w;