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I’m talking about this sort of thing. Like clearly I wouldn’t want someone to see that on my phone in the office or when I’m sat on a bus.

However there seems be a lot of these that aren’t filtered out by nsfw settings, when a similar picture of a woman would be, so it seems this is a deliberate feature I might not be understanding.

Discuss.

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[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 56 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I am of the opinion that there should be more granularity to NSFW than a simple binary.

I'm a fan of how e621 does things:

rating:s (safe)

rating:q (questionable)

rating:e (explicit,)

But I would add another:

rating:t (traumatic, known elsewhere as Not Safe For Life)

Call it "purity" and allow users to filter posts to allow or block any arbitrary combination of purity levels (wallhalla, formerly wallbase, does this if you want to see how it could work).

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It would be great if everything could be classified in this way, but is it practically possible to apply a more complex system like this across instances, given that we struggle with the simpler NSFW tag?

[–] Mistic@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The reason why people are struggling with one tag may also be exactly because it's only one tag.

It's difficult to categorize gray as black or white, after all.

Imo, the real issue is how not to go overboard, adding more and more tags, and keeping things easy to filter.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps. I'm not expert but I'm just not convinced you'd get good compliance across instances.

After all, even minimal non- compliance makes the whole thing pointless

[–] Mistic@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Can't the same be said about what we have right now, though?

No system is flawless, but you'd be surprised the lengths people will go to uphold the ones that work.

[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Moreover I don't think these need to be on a single scale. Like, trauma isn't "more" than pornographic, it's just something completely different (ideally).

There can be a scale of safe to unsafe for a variety of reasons, and people might be able to filter what they see more proactively based on their own tolerances (and interests).

But then again complexity can be a deterrence. Tagging and cataloging can be a big content management problem and I think most want to do the simplest thing possible.

But maybe content advisory could be a crowd sourced effort, using a up/down ranking on explicit categories just like we can do on posts.

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

Makes sense to me.

[–] Ludrol@szmer.info 1 points 4 months ago

There is https://github.com/LemmyNet/rfcs/pull/4 but lemmy devs aren't responding for months.