Tony Sidaway wrote:
Nicholas Knight said:
Tag controversial images, preferably into a couple categories (nudity, blood/gore, could probably think of one or two other good ones). Let the user set a preference for their defaults (maybe give them a toggle they can hit at will while browsing to turn all on/off), and then let them easily select single controversial images to display. There are several options for the last part, Javascript being the easiest, and it can be combined with a server-side mechanism for those that have disabled or lack Javascript support.
I think this is a sensible solution, though the tagging leaves it open to some abuse. For instance the category of images containing nudity contains some images that most of us would probably agree the user would not expect to be blocked--some sacred pictures from the Sistine Chapel ceiling are in there because they happen to contain representations of naked people. This isn't an unsolvable problem, but we would get some edit wars arising and the effect of such tag wars on individual browsing experiences could be quite widespread. Perhaps the browsing categories should be protected and some kind of VfD/RfM-style process used for placing images into categories. That does look like a very workable approach.
Great! If we have both Nicholas and Tony in agreement on this, we have the beginnings of a consensus. Possibly we need different tags for {{artistic nudity}} and {{hardcore porn}}, and we can argue on the nuances that lie inbetween? Let's develop some tag classes, and then get tagging! Then we can worry about what we do with the tag information later.
-- Neil