Am 29.11.2011 13:03, schrieb MZMcBride: > Alasdair wrote: >> If the feeling is that such a "weak" filter would (regardless of how the >> pre-populated "filter lists" are created) still attract significant >> opposition on many projects then I personally don't see how there can be >> any filter created that is likely to gain consensus support and still be >> useful - except for one that gives users the option to hide "all" images by >> default and then click on the greyed out images to load them if they want >> to see them. > You're confusing the opinions of a few extremists on foundation-l with > general consensus. It's unclear what percent of users actually want this > feature, particularly as the feature's implementation hasn't been fully > developed. A few people on this list have been trying very hard to make it > seem as though they're capable of accepting some magical invisible pink > unicorn-equivalent media filter, but the truth is that they're realistically > and pragmatically opposed to any media filter, full stop. This is an > extremist opinion (it's not as though extremist opinions are particularly > uncommon around here). > > Personally, I want to believe that if the Wikimedia Board is making such a > strong push for this feature to be implemented, there are very good reasons > for doing so. Whether or not that's the case, I wouldn't look (closely or > broadly) at the comments on this mailing list and try to divine > community-wide views. > > MZMcBride > ... And I still want to see the "good reason for doing so". So far i could not find one single reason that was worthy to implement such a filter considering all the drawbacks it causes. That doesn't mean that I'm opposed to any kind of filter. It just that we currently have three models:
* The very simple clean solutions (all/nothing/blured/...), which aren't found intuitive by the filter lovers. * The category/labeling based solutions, which require an immense effort (constantly) and provide data for censors. * The user based solutions, which are most likely unusable, since they require a lot of work by the user himself. What I'm missing is option four. But as long option four isn't present I'm strongly in favor of options 0 and 1. 0 would be: do nothing. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
