Talk:Offensive content/sj-proposal

Too Much Work and Detail

While I support efforts to tag and make articles more work/minor/school/common decency friendly - I think a system of (none some all) would work much better and be more likely to be used - none would be no images, some would be all images except those marked as possibly objectionable and all - all images. Or maybe a 4 tier system, none, some, noporn, all. Then you could identfy the images as possibly objectionable, or possibly pornographic (or some other better NPOV terms). possibly objectionable could be used on things like the jack daniels logo that specific groups might find objectionable, and possibly pornographic could be used for images on w:Penis, w:Clitoris, w:Autofellatio, etc. Trodel 01:29, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Reasonable, if tagging was hard - but people love to tag (see the category example given)... -- sj | help translate |+

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Points about identifying 'offensiveness level' of an image inline... I can't think of a case where this changes much with context, so it can all be handled via categories on the media themselves. And this should really be about choosing what you see by default, not 'offensive' content per se [you'll always be able to see any content by explicitly asking to, and most material you'd want to hide isn't offensive, but is spoilers / nsfw / &c. It can see someone toggling different browsing settings at work and at home.]

• Something like [[Image:MyGangrenousFoot.jpg|Off=2|right|200px|Sj's gangrenous right foot before amputation]], which would identify that image as having an offensiveness level of "2". This might lead it to be displayed as an inline link, except for users who had turned on a "show all images inline" preference. (Note that this image, however horrible, wouldn't fall under any keyword below other than perhaps the mild o-disturb.)

• Provide an NPOV way to tag media with the level of controversy aroused by their content. This is a reflection of actual public response rather than content type. hard to determine who the 'public' is, and WP:BEANS.