In the meantime I have to get my name off the footer :D
However for those who perform a search on our site
Instead of a morality rating system ( which will be bypassed by some irresponsible people ) why not add a "safe search" into the search system. With safe search on images with specific keyword will be left out.
This way I have much more control over what gets seen on my site.
Instead of a morality rating system ( which will be bypassed by some irresponsible people ) why not add a "safe search" into the search system. With safe search on images with specific keyword will be left out.
This way I have much more control over what gets seen on my site.
I'll add a field into the network panel which will provide some default values which you can override.
Also please understand that I'm very aware we all come from different backgrounds and am not trying to enforce morality. This is simply a system to show consideration for the others, and a way to control what comes onto your own site, since we all have different values.
RATING is also internal. Lets say I'm fully aware children can, do, and will visit my site because they like robots. AND MY ROBOTS ARE CUTE.
.....So, now my robots share search results with images meant to excite the males of the species.
.....I need to block your your "sexy" "nude" women if we must share a network and mind my audience's eyes. So if you can do me and many others the favor of setting the rating:
.....
I use myself as an example because I'm one of the few guys here that might be concerned about the issues. Knowing my dad, for instance, if he were a photographer or illustrator in the network he'd probably network with all you nude sexy girl guys and put your network results right at the top and be his own best search customer. :D as perhaps many of you manly men would be.
Of course I'm having a little fun with this, but I'm sure you can see the necessity for my youngsters looking for mascot imagery for their school projects.
Instead of a morality rating system ( which will be bypassed by some irresponsible people ) why not add a "safe search" into the search system. With safe search on images with specific keyword will be left out.
This way I have much more control over what gets seen on my site.
I'll add a field into the network panel which will provide some default values which you can override.
Also please understand that I'm very aware we all come from different backgrounds and am not trying to enforce morality. This is simply a system to show consideration for the others, and a way to control what comes onto your own site, since we all have different values.
I'm strongly against any rating system - quality or morality -- it will only hurt those who try to play along, unless there is some form of enforcement.
google will be sending most traffic to most sites, and it wont care what rating a picture has -- it's like those silly 5 star ratings for recipes -- few real people bother to rate anything. you'll end up like sites like panther and the other bottom level sites that show images based on ratings which in turn are just popularity, no real quality control
it's a system crying to be abused
in addition, those of us with 1000 or more images are not about to go back and rate all those images for no possible gain. and forward, we upload in batches -- who's going to waste time assigning a rating to individual images?
ONLY if the default value is 'safe', otherwise anyone who uses the system is going to be automatically blocking out most of the images in the search since most will not be rated at allYeah, also I can block out "orange" from my search so nobody competes with my orange men, so thats where trust and respect for the network comes in. Right now its easy because we all know eachother and are growing together.
As for your other comment about taking your name off the theme.... bad idea.
With the amount of effort you put into this you deserve as much traffic as the network can send to your site.
Thinking about the maturity level, don't we already have a way of disabling searches by sites? Won't that allow you to protect your child clients?
With a night of coding almost complete - here's what we got:
A quality system that orders your images by priority 1, 2, 3. Maybe its a good idea not to call it quality. Call it priority?
With a night of coding almost complete - here's what we got:
A quality system that orders your images by priority 1, 2, 3. Maybe its a good idea not to call it quality. Call it priority?
Before I got back to this thread I had already called it Rank in like 4 different places / files.
Still works the same - it takes those three levels and puts them in order.
When I'm done the mass-editor, this will be much easier to use. For now you might just want to take a hand-full of your best pics and give them a 1st level rank. You'll smile when you do a search ;D
With a night of coding almost complete - here's what we got:
A quality system that orders your images by priority 1, 2, 3. Maybe its a good idea not to call it quality. Call it priority?
"Priority" rating is exactly what came to mind for me instead of "quality" rating. I'd vote for using that term.
The content rating would rely on everyone actually using the ratings when uploading so I can see that being a challenge to actually make it work.
With a night of coding almost complete - here's what we got:
A quality system that orders your images by priority 1, 2, 3. Maybe its a good idea not to call it quality. Call it priority?
"Priority" rating is exactly what came to mind for me instead of "quality" rating. I'd vote for using that term.
The content rating would rely on everyone actually using the ratings when uploading so I can see that being a challenge to actually make it work.
Agree. The people shooting nude women and beyond dont see their work as offensive, so i dont think they will want to be bothered. I dont care what others shoot and if they make money off of it, good for them. The only way i can be sure those images dont come up in a search on my site is to check the box you have already included. Unfortunately, that excludes all their images that might not be offensive. But that will have to be the way it is if they dont want to use the content rating.
If people really want a simple adult filter on their personal site why not just have an option to exclude certain keywords from the local site search, nude, sexy etc.
I wouldn't to see network wide censorship though, that would make the network pointless.
The initial setting of the safe search function and the wording has imposed censorship and USA morality on all sites!!Ok - the system is in as you know.
I know that some places in the states it is illegal for women to show their breast ( but it is ok for men) but that is not the case for a lot of the world. So this standard is what we now have for Symbiostock? A lot of European fashion picks will be rated as Red by this network?
Sorry for the rant but censorship " for the sake of the children " has always bothered me.
With a night of coding almost complete - here's what we got:
A quality system that orders your images by priority 1, 2, 3. Maybe its a good idea not to call it quality. Call it priority?
"Priority" rating is exactly what came to mind for me instead of "quality" rating. I'd vote for using that term.
The content rating would rely on everyone actually using the ratings when uploading so I can see that being a challenge to actually make it work.
Agree. The people shooting nude women and beyond dont see their work as offensive, so i dont think they will want to be bothered. I dont care what others shoot and if they make money off of it, good for them. The only way i can be sure those images dont come up in a search on my site is to check the box you have already included. Unfortunately, that excludes all their images that might not be offensive. But that will have to be the way it is if they dont want to use the content rating.
realistically - why would nudes ever show up in a search for green, animal, travel or any of the other keywords people are promoting?
B. The rating system is an honor system and probably will not get filtered by 90% of webmasters.
About the censorship ratings.
In my opinion, All defaults Should point to unrated.
Images should be unrated until the action to rate them has happened. The site should be wide open until the webmaster takes steps to tighten their content.
4 settings
unrated..... as the name states this should be the default
general.... 90% of the images in the world
S or N..... Sexy or nude images ( including Art) There are a lot of sexy images which don't have "offensive" body parts and a lot of nude images which have no sexual content
Adult...... Images of adults, by adults for adults
If other people don't comment or have an opinion then I will stop
Hmm,It depends. Are the dead animals wearing underwear?
I was one ask by a FAA group master not to send any (ugly) pics of dead/decaying animals to her group because she felt offended by them (although I thought the group's topic, something like "wilderness scences" or "found on the forest floor", I can't remember, seemed a good match to me).
How would I rate those images if this is all about nudity and adult content?
Hmm,It depends. Are the dead animals wearing underwear?
I was one ask by a FAA group master not to send any (ugly) pics of dead/decaying animals to her group because she felt offended by them (although I thought the group's topic, something like "wilderness scences" or "found on the forest floor", I can't remember, seemed a good match to me).
How would I rate those images if this is all about nudity and adult content?
I thought the current wording was very definitive