[Clipart] pron

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 15:42 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 10:49:05PM +0000, Jonathan Leighton wrote:
> > Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > >On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:19:03PM +0000, Jonathan Leighton wrote:
> > >  
> > >
> > >>hmmm... I think this is actually a matter that should be discussed. From
> > >>http://openclipart.org/guidelines.php:
> > >>
> > >>"We do not censor the content of the submissions"
> > >>
> > >>Now, I'm not saying that we *should* accept porn, but deleting it goes
> > >>directly against that statement so one or other should be changed. We
> > >>don't want to end up becoming a porn repository, of course, but there's
> > >>tasteful nudity (Da Vinci etc.) and there's porn. We should make it
> > >>clear that we won't accept the latter (I think everyone agrees on that),
> > >>but perhaps we could accept the former with a "may offend" or "nudity"
> > >>flag? Something like that?
> > >
> > >I think you've pretty much voiced my own thoughts.  I was wondering the
> > >same things.
> > > 
> > I don't really know how the system works, but is it *possible* to give
> > files a "may offend" flag? (Directed at no-one in particular.) And does
> > the list think that would be a good/bad idea?
> 
> It is technically feasible to do this; the devil is in the details of
> deciding how one decide the definitions.  We'd sort of decided that
> doing something like add a keyword "offensive" would be bad because
> something that is offensive to one culture may not be to another.  We
> thought it would be better to keep it more descriptive.  For instance,
> some cultures find separated human body parts to be offensive in general
> (fingers, heads, feet...) but those are often use symbolically in
> western culture, so an "offensive" label wouldn't make sense.
> 
> Anyway, beyond that there's still a lot to be thought through.  I think
> to date we've mostly just focused on getting the technical aspects of
> handling keywords figured out, now it's a matter of determining what
> keywords should be used.  
> 

Right, I think we should encourage non-value judgment keywords. So
rather than say "bad" or "offensive," say "nudity" or "religious," etc.

Jon

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