Loomio
Fri 18 Jul 2014 4:53PM

Word/tag filter option?

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Heya folks.

I was a bit inspired with ideas after that bit with the fellow that brought up the child safety and all that.

I had the idea of a possible word/tag filter for Diasporians. So that the users can blacklist words that they feel are offensive and tags of their choosing that get associated with NSFW content in their profile settings.

I thought of maybe having a simple text field where one enters in the word "hell" and/or the tag #boobies and then confirms their option and let the word and/or tag get replaced with asterisks (A bit of a visual pun since the Diaspora logo IS an asterisk hehe) of equal character values.

What do you all think? I'm not really specifically thinking about children in this case but people of any age who don't want to see the "C" word in their stream.

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goob Fri 18 Jul 2014 5:00PM

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[email protected] Fri 18 Jul 2014 5:01PM

interesting .. I am not a programmer at all so not sure how feasible things are but I keep thinking that the more controls and settings you can play with regarding the way you share or manage things ,, the better a social network gets,,. :)

DU

Fri 18 Jul 2014 5:06PM

It a waste of time, guys... Nobody forces you to register to a tag. Furthermore, a tag does not resumes a content...

Concerning the NSFW tag, again it is already safe ! You cannot display #NSFW content until you agreed to display it ! Meaning you have been informed that it actually is Not Safe For Work !

Guys, whats the matter with porn ?! It is not going to destroy our society ! Stop trying to lock the children in a golden cage ! They're not stupid !

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Theatre-X Fri 18 Jul 2014 5:07PM

Well sort of Goob, the tag bit is. But I didn't see anything in that post about profanity and the like. Unless I misread. Lemme read that first post again.

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goob Fri 18 Jul 2014 5:10PM

Well, filtering words which aren't tags is the same as filtering words which are tags - it is just an extension of the same feature.

I think filtering of posts is something that no one is going to object to - it just requires someone to create the code for it.

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Theatre-X Fri 18 Jul 2014 5:10PM

I was talking about words Augier. Not pornography. I'm talking about asterisk-ing words out like fuck, bitch, whore, etc. (Excuse the words to future readers of this) or any other words that a user would experience offensive feelings from. I've seen pictures of boobs in my stream that didn't have a #nsfw tag associated with it but it DID have "#tits" and the like. But I digress. I know if my mother were to sign up on Diaspora and saw the word "Cunt" that she'd get all flustered about it. :)

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Sean Tilley Fri 18 Jul 2014 5:18PM

@Augier I don't think tag filtering is a waste of time. I think for the most part, it could be incredibly useful as a user setting.

It's not even just about avoiding content that you find as offensive, although that's certainly a valid use case. It's more about empowering a user to take control of what they're seeing in their stream.

A Linux user might not care about seeing a bunch of mac-related posts, or maybe a person doesn't want to see a bunch of posts about surveys, for example.

DU

Fri 18 Jul 2014 5:22PM

Ok, let me be clear on it : I'm not against the idea. To be honnest : I totally don't care. But I consider it a huge waste of time and ressources since there actually is only 30 active contributors and lots of work to be done.

And, as I tried to explain to @l4c0f, to me, this is not the way D* works. The thing is : if you're not happy with your pod, set up your own !

Yes, I agree that it is currently not easy. But to me, we should work on an easy deployment feature to let each and every user set up his own pod for his mother, than trying to implem some dictatoriship-typical feature like blocking, filtering, reporting and others...

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Theatre-X Fri 18 Jul 2014 5:22PM

Very interesting points Sean. Didn't think about using a word/tag filter that way :)

DU

Fri 18 Jul 2014 5:24PM

@seantilleycommunit : you mark a point, I didn't see things this way.

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