"safety level"/ or some type of data for (mature) content moderation

[Christopher Allan Webber]

See http://www.flickr.com/help/filters/ but without the gendered "your mom" stuff. Let's not gender our safety levels :)

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Assigning this to Deb for now. Deb, we really could use some help with phrasing. Could you assist?

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Hey Deb, done any thinking on this?

[Deb Nicholson]

MediaGoblin asks everyone to help us by categorizing their own content. We hope that all sorts of people will benefit from sharing media here, but not all content is acceptable for all audiences. Please take a minute to think about who might benefit from your content and who might not. Thanks for making MediaGoblin a great resource for everybody!

Content Filters

• Everybody (E) - Content that would be acceptable on a public billboard
• Not Quite Everybody (NQE) - Most of your friends wouldn't mind, but you'd think twice about putting this up in an elementary school
• Not Safe For Work (NSFW) - Would you show this to your new boss? Right, then set it as NSFW.

Does a bathing suit usually cover it? Then it's NSFW. If you'd rather not describe what's happening in the picture to a room full of 8 year olds, then set it to NQE.

[Will Kahn-Greene]

I really like the bathing suit line. I think that's a good differentiator.

[joar]

I think that we should use a culture-agnostic rating system. Perhaps in the west we have a certain common understanding of what's mature and what isn't. SOme countries/cultures may have stricter/looser understandings of what's mature and what isn't. This makes us unable to predict at what age it'll be OK for someone to view an image.

We should instead rate the images based on the content of the images.

Some suggeestions are (these are really up for discussion, and some research of which ones are necessary may need to be done). - Alcoholic beverages - Tobacco - Drugs - Partial nudity - Full nudity - Gore

And perhaps even categories representing "depictions of ____", for comics or art depicting any of these etc.

[Christopher Allan Webber]

As discussed on IRC, I think the proposal Deb has made is actually very good. I think this stuff is going to be highly subjective anyway, and we don't want it to be tiring. (It's already kinda tiring by default..) The main goal here is to prevent porn and very violent things from hitting people who don't want to see them.

[Will Kahn-Greene]

The original url for this bug was ​http://bugs.foocorp.net/issues/367 .
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