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...
The first two and the last three are the same lol.
There really isn't any need for tuning them even further. They're both already niche enough as is. The people who are good with the two are good with both. The people good with the last three are 'good' with any. You genuinely cannot get any of them without the other lol.
Yeah, it'd be better to implement OP's idea, see how it goes, and then see if there's need for the others. Gradual changes help admins see what works best, I think. Follow the KISS: Keep It Simple, Supid.
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.
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. The smart approach would be to add an arbitrary tag system and handle it that way.
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 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.
Why can’t people just ~~not~~ look at the name of the community and then easily conclude if it’s sexual content or gory content?
Edit: Seems my English skills fucked me over.
Real answer? Because technology could easily do it for you if people tag posts in OP’s proposed way. Just one less thing for a viewer to have to think about.
It would also allow for different filters. Blur NSFW, but not nsfl, or vice versa. Or even only show post of one and hide others entirely, without having to block communities by hand.
Sometimes NSFW images are appropriate in otherwise SFW communities. For instance, imagine a community on exterior design that had a post with a picture of that building in Germany with the five-story-high penis on it. Or a community for desktop themes that has a post with nudes wallpaper. Or a community about a certain celebrity that posts pictures of her car wreck.
I follow the Ukrainian war. Blocking all NSFW blocks so much of the news.
I want to block porn, not news.
Do we really need community names? I feel like we could just use the first line of the description
I think a tag system as suggested by others makes the most sense, as NSFW and NSFL aren't mutually exclusive.
Why
Don’t be a contrarian for a second and think of the why yourself, it’s easy and good for your brain!
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