Ray Saintonge wrote:
An option to hide all images is still useful, but
that has nothing to do
with offensiveness. It would be welcome by people with slow internet
connections as we keep getting away from plain vanilla text articles.
Perhaps there is a software solution. We could add a field to the
"image" table called "img_rating," which could be used to indicate
potentially offensive characteristics of the image from a fixed list
of possibilities, e.g., "sex," "violence," "profanity,"
"scatological." The same fixed list could be added to user options, so
that people could choose themselves which types of images they prefer
not to see.
This came up in one of our periodic debates about categories. There's
no reason why categories can't apply to images. The items in your lists
could all be treated as such categories. In conjunction with
Wikipedia's own internal search function (Does anyone remember when that
was operational) a user could set a filter consistent with his own
beliefs. There was at least one voice then that was complaining that
this would open the door to censorship.
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