Am 29.11.2011 23:47, schrieb Kim Bruning:
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 09:09:04AM +0100, M?ller,
Carsten wrote:
... but
-if we want to reach consensus[1]- what we really need to be
discussing is: screwdrivers.
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
No, we need to harden the wall agaist all attacks by hammers, screwdrivers and
drills.
We have consensus: Wikipedia should not be censored.
Right, hammering ourselves on
the thumb is a bad idea :-P
However, there's nothing wrong with making sure that people
don't get odd images when they don't expect it (something
wikipedia is good at, but commons admittedly perhaps slightly
less so). This is the screw.
That is more or less a search and time issue. If you
search for a
cucumber and a sexual related image ranks first instead of an actual
cucumber then it would be time to improve the search function. If we
have not enough people categorizing images the right way, we might start
to recruit more helpers.
If we are careful enough we might be able to recycle the hammer to
construct two or more small screwdrivers an argument against the image
filter that is read as this: "Put more effort inside ideas how to
improve search functionality and to help categorizing. It will actually
help everyone and would get clear referendum results." ;P
I don't think a filter (the hammer) will be very
successful at
doing so, because filters have simply never been very good at
keeping away unexpected content, and can easily lead to
censorship and other unwanted side effects (hitting ourselves
on the thumb). However, perhaps some other tool might be
useful for fixing the screw. Some people have come up with some
interesting proposals.
But shouting at each other about filters is probably
counter-productive at this point. ;-)
sincerely,
Kim Bruning