On 4/16/05, Tony Sidaway minorityreport@bluebottle.com wrote:
I agree. If we do have server-side filtering, we should use the highest level of censorship as a default so that nobody can complain that they didn't ask for what they got (otherwise, why bother doing it?) It should be possible to override this by setting preferences and obtaining a long-term site cookie, without having to log in. This would make Wikipedia's behavior similar to Google's.
For the record, taking a leaf from Google's book in this area has always been my preferred way of going about things. Also, to my knowledge, Google does not use the highest level of censorship as a default, but rather a moderate level (which is what I think we should be doing also).
-- ambi