This post includes a NSFW-link October 2, 2005 3:16 PM   Subscribe

Administrator: This post includes a NSFW-link to playboy.com (the article is SFW, the banner ads are not) - without specifying it. Sorry. Before something like this happens again...is there any way to fix or delete the link?
posted by iviken to Etiquette/Policy at 3:16 PM (7 comments total)

I get as frustrated as anyone about links that need a NSFW disclaimer and don't carry one. That being said, I would think that anyone's default assumption for the playboy.com domain would be "NSFW," and I can't imagine that a person surfing at work would be so incautious as to click on links without at least mousing over them first. And if they don't follow that practice... maybe they should start.
posted by the_bone at 3:22 PM on October 2, 2005


I am a big fan of the NSFW tag, as I mostly read MeFi from work, but also understand that I have to accept that many links I may click on are innapropriate for work and I should exercise due caution. That caution would include not clicking on a link to playboy.com. Where the cautions are mainly needed are when there is no clue to to the content from the link URL. Even then, it is just a courtesy (one which I think should always be followed, but perhaps I am biaised).

If people don't want to sully their formatting with descriptive tags, they could do in in alt text instead. If you are reading MeFi from work and don't at least pause over the link to see where it goes, you have to accept whatever comes your way without complaint.
posted by dg at 3:44 PM on October 2, 2005


the_bone : "I can't imagine that a person surfing at work would be so incautious as to click on links without at least mousing over them first. And if they don't follow that practice... maybe they should start."

I am that incautious at MeFi (not that I clicked on that link, and not that anyone is around on my night shift to look over my shoulder), because MeFi has a policy of requiring NSFW stuff to be labelled NSFW. Still, it's not the end of the world, and if I were to be fired from my job from clicking on an unlabeled NSFW link, I would only blame myself (well, and maybe whoever made the company policy). As it is, this is just a request by the person who initially made to post for Matt to edit it to conform to MeFi labelling standards, which makes eminent sense to me.
posted by Bugbread at 3:45 PM on October 2, 2005


So, slight derail, a few of the posts in the old metatalk thread had this bit of text "[this section deleted]" at the end. Where the posters just being clever? (If so, nice one.) Was there an actual of bit of offensive/objectionable writing there? (If so, does anyone remember the essence of what Ignacioes and Quonsar said?)

I've never run across a partially deleted post before.
posted by oddman at 3:52 PM on October 2, 2005


ok, fixed. I added a warning.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:56 PM on October 2, 2005


Thanks, Matt.
posted by iviken at 4:00 PM on October 2, 2005


Again, as I've said before, since Goatse was approved you have to assume every link is NSFW and act accordingly.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 4:34 PM on October 2, 2005


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