Tony Sidaway wrote:
Christiaan Briggs said:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
However it's incorrect to say that disabling images is indiscriminate.
It's indiscriminate in that it stops all images from loading. There is no discrimination involved. All images are initially blocked. A site-based system would allow us to discriminate.
Not really. It would place the discrimination in the hands of someone else, whereas if we disable image downloads *we* make the decision which images we want to see. It only takes a click.
A user is not always going to know what is going to offend them until they have looked at the content. By then it's too late. Yes the idea relies on Wikipedia editors to decide what is going to be potentially offensive. I don't think this would be half as difficult as some have implied and I would find it far more acceptable than asking users to disable images completely. Getting users to disable images in their web browser is like using a sledge hammer to do the job of a spanner.
Christiaan