On 7/29/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
That said, I think "saying no" would cause a real reduction in bad images... but if we aren't careful how we say no we will encourage people to twiddle the knobs until they've left misleading metadata. I'd rather we have more violations which are tagged somewhat correctly than fewer violations but with them tagged as free content.
Maybe if there weren't any knobs at all it'd be better.
1) Any logged in user can upload an image, if they include text which explains why they think the image fits within the policy. A tutorial can help guide them as to what the policy is, but ultimately anything can be uploaded with explanatory text.
2) Only after you've convinced us that you know what you're talking about and aren't lying about everything, then you get a pulldown menu of choices.
This strategy would probably work best if there were a way to lock an image so that it can't appear in any article. Who would be able to add or remove the lock, and whether or not the lock would be on or off by default (personally I'd say probably off) could be tweaked to find the best solution. Blatant violations would of course be deleted - the lock would be for situations where there's just not enough explanation, or the explanation hasn't been checked.
Anthony