--- Arno M redgum46@lycos.com wrote:
csherlock at ljh.com.au (csherlock at ljh.com.au) [050214 11:23]:
Arno M wrote:
I'd like to put my reply to sannse's e-mail here. That autofellatio image should go - and go immediately. People have the right to go through this wikipedia without being
confronted
with this kind of pornographic material without warning.
Out of interest Arno, why are you looking at the Autofellatio article if you risk getting offended?
I too would like to know the answer to this question.
(It's like people who complain the picture on [[clitoris]] is not worksafe and can't come up with why they were reading about clitorises in the course of their job.)
Your argument is that any poor fool who visits such a page "deserves whatever they get". I disagree. For a start, it may be that the person does not even understand what the topic means -- the reason that they're looking it up in Wikipedia in the first place (it's quite possible that I'd choose to visit Wikipedia first, rather than Google or a dictionary, when investigating an unfamiliar noun). Furthermore, I don't think it follows that, even if a reader knows what it means, that there would be any expectation of a graphic photographic illustration. It's unusual to see "porno-style" images in an dry, academic reference work -- like Wikipedia. And still furthermore, I think it is quite legitimate to want to read the text but not view such an image -- I would fall into this category, for instance. Images can be very potent -- which is why "Goatse" is a photo and not a chunk of prose.
I do think readers must be given the opportunity to choose whether they see images like this or not. I don't think they should have to fiddle around crippling their browsers to achieve this, either. It would be nice to have some elegant cookie/server-filtering/optional software feature, but inlining is an effective (albeit inelegant) solution for now.
-- Matt
[[User:Matt Crypto]]
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