Tony Sidaway wrote:
I would say that if a user presses the random page button and gets a page he didn't expect, then the button is probably working as advertised. We should perhaps put a reminder to read our content disclaimer just under the button.
That strikes me as an eminently reasonable way to handle it, if there's real concern over possible offense. If not (if, for instance, it was only brought up as a hypothetical complaint and nobody really cares), there may not be any need to even do that much.
The existence of a randomization button doesn't strike me as a reason to ban certain classes of articles or restrict legitimately informative content in those articles, though. That doesn't mean there aren't valid reasons to restrict such articles or their contents, but I don't think the random button qualifies as one of these.
-- Chad