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[Brett Wilkins <bushido.katana@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey there,

Should we really be worried about users uploading porn and other
offensive images to libravatar? If people want to, they will try and
we can't really stop them from doing that. The notes in the TODO list
appear to imply screening images for offensive content, which in my
mind seems to be a task that is doomed to fail if any one site gets
too big.

Now, I'm not saying that we don't have methods to combat the uploading
of offensive images to our service (and by all means, somebody may
host their own pornographic/whatever avatar image server). Why not
take a more passive approach, and allow the internet to screen the
images for us? There is no better source of effort in this regard,
after all. I'm thinking of some kind of reporting functionality.
How.... I don't know :D

This is just my 2c.

Cheers,
Brett