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#1

I’m not sure where this topic should go, so I’ll just play it safe and put it in the community forum.

I was just looking at marcel’s ‘zgirl’ picture, when a thought occured to me. When an image contains nudity, usually we mention it in the title, to decrease the risk of anyone being offended in any way. Wouldn’t it be easier if instead of doing that, we had Message Icons do it for us? Very few of the current message icons convey much information, many are just dependent on the users mood when he posts it. So why not add some more icons, or replace some of the current ones? Perhaps an N for nudity, or a M for mature? There are probably other things we might want people to know about an image before they entered a thread as well. Tell me what you think. :slight_smile:

#2

… hmmm: why thinking about filtering the works of any member/nonmember?? It’s about art in it’s many forms, nothing more/less.

I mean, if I can’t stand a pic - I always have the chance to look away. Noone forces me to look at something that I don’t like.

And, I suppose you’re not speaking of pornographic things or anything like that!?
Part of the fun being here are the many different kinds of pics you get to see, so: please do not change this!!

#3

I don’t mean as a required filter, what I mean is that if people are already saying nudity after the image name quite a bit of the time why not just have an icon say it instead? This way if someone has little kids in the room they will know which images they should avoid until later.

#4

I am with you in thinking that our children should be sheltered from some of those weird things that are on the www these days - but, after I had a look on your example “Zgirl” I was wondering because I could not see any threat in this pic.

Any TV-program-guide has more questionable pics then you will find here, each third pop-up window while being online deals with nudety, seems we are surrounded by it.

I doubt that this forum here can/could be some kind of “platform” for anything that children (no matter what age :slight_smile: )should be kept away from.
But, views differ ("… look here, kiddy, look at this nice pic of a lazer-gun [hiding away that pic of a barebreasted warrior]!!") - where should this classification end??

#5

Zerebrom: which things are questionable are different from people and region…
Gerlon: an icon for nudity … Ok, but ‘War’, ‘Blood’, and so on… which icon for these ??

cameyo

p.s. it’s only my opinion

#6

@cameyo:

that is exactly what I meant: there are so many habits to take into consideration if you want to put any kind of classification/filter to all those pics -there simply would be no end to all this. So I thought it would be best to rely on some common-sense, dealing with those “dangerous” pics!?

Just like you said - only my opinion here.

#7

I understand what you both are saying completely. I just think the ability to do an ‘M’ for mature would be useful. Maybe I’m wrong, does anyone else have an opinion on the matter?

btw zerebrom, you’re right that ‘zgirl’ is a bad example, it just happened to be the picture that gave me the idea.

#8

@Gerlon
the “problem” is: I think you will not find any “better” example in this whole forum. Nudety is a part of art from the very beginning, and I think it is not the “M” that is driving this discussion. My concern is the way some people tend to over-react (no offense here!) whenever something “disturbing” occurs.

And because of sheltering our children: they are curious (I’ve survived the questioning-phase of three of them :smiley: , so I know about that), and all that really matters is, how you are able to answer. They don’t react like some adults do when a bare breast comes in sight - you can explain the beauty of a picture to them, if that is needed anyway.
The real damage is done by those ppl that react like: “Oh, no!! FLESH!!! Keep away from it!!!”. Once classified that way they might get never a normal relation to all this.