Wouldn't it be better to have more specific tags like movies? e.g. "Sexual content", "Gore", "Death", "Violence" or for content that you truly want to avoid; "US Politics".
It would be wonderful with something more granular than "NSFW"...
I would love if we got something even more granular like a "Content Warning: ".
Examples:
Content Warning: nudity - might be a painting with nude people, might be a photo of nude people, in essence if it isn't porn, but there's exposed genitals, butts or breasts.Content Warning: porn - you can probably guess...Content Warning: gore - images with gore, people missing body parts, often dead as well.Content Warning: death - images with people dying, but without gore.Content Warning: blood - images with some blood, but no death or gore. (often seen in news articles)Content Warning: violence - people fighting, but without turning bloody.These could of course be expanded with many more categories if need be.
EDIT: added violence by request
At that point we get a tag system. Content Warning: politics, Content Warning: bad news, Content Warning: dangerous cuteness...
I would have thought that such a feature would be completely uncontroversial. Really weird that some people seem resistant to it.
Most of the resistance to it on Reddit was because NSFL content was technically not allowed on the site at all and adding a specific tag for NSFL material could be seen at legitimizing it. But they didn't heavily moderate it either so I don't see the point in refusing a tag for it if they're not going to do anything about it themselves either.
What really blows my mind though is the subset of people that want a NSFW tag to mean Gore/Death and a separate PORN tag for titties and such. I mean, we already have established terms for those so why not stick with what everyone already knows them by?
I think the Supreme Court decided this issue in Bush v. Gore, and it's been controversial ever since.
Some people get off on shocking others with dehumanizing gore etc. when they thought they were in for a dick pick at worst.
I've always thought, of all the options to warn us that clicking will put titties on our screen, that "not safe for work" was a bad choice.
Like, what if your work doesn't care about titties? What about the tons of other times you wouldn't want those to pop into your screen without warning, like when you're on public transit, or sitting next to grandma?
I'd vote for "LEWD" vs "GORE" or something more clear - users can decide for themselves when it is or isn't safe.
Correct, if you work for e.g. Pornhub, NSFW might have a different meaning
I can just imagine the HR conversations at Pornhub. "Steve, we have reason to believe that you've been viewing non-pornographic material at work."
My job doesnt care.
Of course i cant just browse porn all day, but clicking a random picture onnreddit with boobs?
Nobody cares
Mate we can't even hide posts
(Sync for Lemmy has client side support for that)
As do Connect. Still, it should be a desktop feature, too.
Having gone through the code a bit, the NSFW handling looks very baked in, so it's not a small ask.
Is that the smart approach, or the easier approach?
I just got done reading a whole diatribe on how everything sucks because the code for everything is just duck tape on top of duck tape.
I love it when my tape quacks.
FYI it's duct tape. Duck Tape is a brand that sells a type of duct tape, among other tapes.
I think it's both. Instead of trying to update the codebase with one new database attributes for each conceivable way to tag content, you simply put in facilities to abstract that - "show only posts with tag foobar", "hide all posts with tag foobar".
I don't care about Reddit (or about growing Lemmy) as much as the average post I see in Lemmy, but if you wanted to migrate people from the former to the latter this is one of the easier ways to help do it. It's one of those small quality of life things that are asked for periodically. If Lemmy had it it'd be mentioned in Reddit every time people are pissed with the site (which is every day for most sites, including Reddit). It'd be free ~~mouth to mouth~~ word of mouth (being ESL is funny sometimes) publicity for Lemmy
Yes please and just call it what it is! "Brutal" and "sexual" feg. Because I for one work in a sex fight fetish porn production studio so to me all of this is very sfw.
This is a good idea, anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't stumbled upon a guy getting his head chopped off when they didn't want to see it.
The ActivityPub interface allows it to my knowledge. It's just not widely used.
Is this a protocol or a client issue? Would absolutely love to see it.
I think a tag system as suggested by others makes the most sense, as NSFW and NSFL aren't mutually exclusive.
Can this be done with the hashtag tags? Does that functionality already support what OP is asking for?
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