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[Francois Marier <fmarier@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2010-06-21 at 09:42:21, Brett Wilkins wrote:
> Should we really be worried about users uploading porn and other
> offensive images to libravatar?

In general I would say yes, because we are hosting other people's content. I
suppose we could be banned by Internet filters if we had too much
objectionable content.

> 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.

It might be a big task, but maybe we should at least have the ability to do
so? I guess I was thinking of something like StatusNet where users can click
a "Report this" or "Flag this user" button. So it's not moderation, but
rather the ability to respond to things that are flagged as inappropriate.

Also, with images, I think it's a bit easier because you could just bang a
whole bunch of 80x80 images on a single page and then click on the ones that
need to be disabled.

> 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.

I agree with a passive approach and a reporting button or form. But at the
same time if a Libravatar server owner wants to browse all images, it would
be nice to be able to do it. For example, if a school uses Libravatar, they
will want to make sure not of the students have objectionable images.

Also, given that images will be shown on other sites, out of context
(i.e. unless you look at the URL, you won't know it comes from Libravatar)
it's a big hard to have people flag images they find are inappropriate...

Cheers,
Francois

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