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Since there's been some debate about which secrets get linked and which don't, I'd like your input!

Unfortunately, I can't link everything that's NSFW because what's NSFW varies. In some cases, things as commonly found in secrets as profanity in large text would be considered NSFW.

Things currently on the "link" list:
- explicit guro
- explicit nudity (of the pornographic type; art is fine)
- anything containing outright porn
- images that contain common triggers in visual (that is, not text) form (e.g. signs of self-injury, images of dub/non-con between characters, pictures of emaciated human beings. Things like images of real murders and genocide victims have also been used before)
- flashy "seizure" gifs
- anything in which children are sexualized (yes I did go back and link the Boku no Pico one, I'm sorry about that)

None of those things above are up for debate.

But there are times when it's not so clear cut. Like something that is censored but barely, or something that is definitely sexual but isn't explicitly showing any body parts. For example, there's a secret in this week's batch of two half-clothed people, and one is about to reach (consensually) into the other one's pants and is halfway there but hasn't quite made it yet, and there's kissing and touching that makes it obvious where it's heading. There's another secret of a character in a dress pulling the skirt part up, with a small censor over the genitalia but otherwise overtly sexualized.

What about things like that?

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Remember, nothing is going to be censored - the secret will be posted like any other, in the body of the post, not in the bar at the bottom - just linked instead of embedded. And some people are more likely to pay attention to secrets linked for being porny anyway, so there's that!

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The ones I saw were embedded. It could have been a very long time ago?

I'm just confused since from what I remember, stuff was never linked. And then suddenly sometime last year all sorts of warnings and links started showing up and I was like "bwuh? what's the problem? Why is this stuff getting linked now when it wasn't before?"

Either that, or I haven't been paying very good attention to F!S. :U

Whatever the majority wants I'm cool with, but I don't really see the point in linking either of the examples you mentioned. I always read secrets at work and it's not that hard to keep the bad shit off screen.

/shrug

Maybe! I am sure that after '08 and LJ banning random fandom comms for posting porn of various kinds, though, FS stopped posting explicit porn.

The trigger/spoiler warnings have been around for a while too, I don't remember when those started...

... has it really been that long?

I want to say maybe about a year? But possibly less than that? I think I check F!S every day, but I can't really pinpoint when I first remembered seeing them.

Personally, I think that the tiny-half-assed censor bars like you find on imageboard porn still qualifies as explicit and should probably be linked along with the rest of the porn.

yes + JPN loves this kind of shit :S or has to, in any case

I agree with this.

I clearly remember some embedded secrets with porn images in them as well, but those were around the time I started reading FS (in 2008) Haven't seen many recently, though.

Edited 2011-01-27 09:57 (UTC)

I think, sadly, if genitalia is visible it's not safe for work, even if it has a kinda-censor over it.

I really don't think anything should have to be linked, tbh. Are you walking around with a sign around your neck saying HEY DON'T BE TOO SKINNY IT'LL TRIGGER ME!! ...? Real life doesn't come with a "trigger filter", so why should anything else?

Because it's a nice thing to do? We don't have to have a trigger warning here, but it's considered courteous. Why not be courteous when we can?

I don't really want to go back and look for it, but I swear there was a guro picture posted, like, two days ago. Something with intestines and the secret was like, "they fight all the time -- this is my ideal couple"?

Agreed. I think if a censor bar is actually present, that qualifies as explicit enough to be linked.

That said, I'm one of those who rarely if ever reads linked secrets.

So I should be on facebook then?

One of the perks of my job is that we have free reign to dick around on the internet during our downtime, so stfu your generalizations please.

...really? I don't remember it, are you sure it's within two days? I'll go look if you can give me a general time.

I'd like to +1 this.

Personally I lean towards the policy of "Caveat Lector", reader beware, don't link to any of them and put them all on the main page regardless. There should be no links at all, because, well grow the hell up and live in the real world not some little bubble filled with cotton wool.

yeah, but give them an inch they'll take a yard though. It starts off with only really outrageous, and then the sense of entitlement grows and you end up with people bitching about some woman in a mildly suggestive pose and a whole page of comments getting frozen. it'll keep happening I guarantee it.

So, blanket no to links and when someone out of a Victorian Nunnery comes along and goes all waaaaah I can see her ~~nipples~~ ankles, or oooh I once got hurt by a nail file you didn't warn for a pic of someone filing their nails you can say, grow a fucking pair. Everyone finds something offensive/triggering and it is easy just to scroll down or close your eyes for a second or two while doing so. Should be fucking responsible for their own brain.

stop reading the internet at work and get on with your job then, fucking slackers.

then you keep the stuff you are embarrassed about for when you get home, like those furry sites, the diaper fiction you read, the furry diaper fiction, Golden Girls porn, and tea-bagging party manifestos. When you are reading at work stick to the safe stuff like Disney sites, and Wikipedia. LJ is a NSFW site, and if you are embarrassed reading it then wait til you get home.

Now do up your flies and get back to work, break is over.

I don't wanna see pix of furries or David Caruso anywhere, but I fucking cope because the world isn't just me. Stop being a little crybaby.

I ain't embarrassed about shit, I'd just prefer the explicit porn be labeled so I can avoid it.

And wikipedia as a SFW site? Hah! I clicked on links there I had to backpedal out of ASAP.

Bitch bitch bitch, you only wish you had a job that allowed surfing the net while on the clock. I love my job. ;D

Your trolling is both obvious and boring.

LoL, I work at home so whatever, but the question we're discussing here is whether or not something is safe for work.

Can't say it better than that :D

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