[Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Mon Sep 19 13:42:51 UTC 2011


> Zitat von Tobias Oelgarte <tobias.oelgarte at googlemail.com>:
>
>> The second problem will be the categorization progress. We would
>> categorize the images for others, not our selfs, and we also have no
>> sources for argumentation. But there is another problem. We already
>> discuss about the inclusion of images inside related articles
>> discussion
>> pages. While some image might not be appropriate for inclusion in one
>> article, it might be the perfect, valuable, needed for understanding,
>> maybe offensive illustration for another article.
>
>  From what I understood the image filter will not have subjective
> criteria like "a little offensive", "very offensive", "pornography",
> but neutrally decidable criteria like "depicts nude female breasts",
> "depicts the face of Muhammad", "depicts mutilated dead body". If you
> select these criteria carefully there should be no need for any
> "sources" for your decision to put a file in the criterion's category.
> Either the image depicts the category topic or it doesn't.
>
> Marcus Buck
> User:Slomox

But some depictions of such things are offensive or pornographic and some
not at all.

Fred





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