Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions forPotentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-24 Thread wiki-list
Sue Gardner wrote: > Sorry to top-post. > > Google and Flickr actually handle this quite differently though, I > think, Andreas. Going from memory -- I think that Google defaults to > a "moderate" setting, but allows users to easily switch to an > unfiltered setting. As long as they allow cookies

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions forPotentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-24 Thread David Goodman
010 14:19:01 > To: ; Wikimedia Foundation Mailing > List > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions forPotentially-Objectionable >        Content > > Hi Sue-- > Thank you so so much for that reply, it was really really appreciated. > >> I also wanted to say

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions forPotentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-24 Thread Sue Gardner
, Sue -Original Message- From: Alec Conroy Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:19:01 To: ; Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions forPotentially-Objectionable Content Hi Sue-- Thank you so so much for that reply, it was really really appreciated. &g

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions forPotentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-24 Thread Sue Gardner
Sorry to top-post. Google and Flickr actually handle this quite differently though, I think, Andreas. Going from memory -- I think that Google defaults to a "moderate" setting, but allows users to easily switch to an unfiltered setting. As long as they allow cookies, users don't need to be reg

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions forPotentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-24 Thread Alec Conroy
Hi Sue-- Thank you so so much for that reply, it was really really appreciated. > I also wanted to say -- you know in your post where you speculate about why > this is > happening now, is it because of the fundraising, has someone offered board > members jobs, > etc.  (I know you were mostly non

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions forPotentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-24 Thread Sue Gardner
Alec, thanks for making that post. I know people have had these discussions for a long time (I've read lots of them), but I really appreciate you writing a long explanation of what you think. The "no censorship" people don't tend to want to lay out their full position -- because they already ha

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions forPotentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-22 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On 7/22/10 4:17 PM, David Gerard wrote: > And so far, it's worked. Your words appear to presume people have > somehow failed to actually think about this stuff over the past ten > years. > So far it's worked because we've been lucky. Here's an example of a bad situation just waiting to happen:

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions forPotentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-22 Thread David Gerard
On 23 July 2010 00:06, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > Actually I think there is one issue that has still not been well > discussed, and which I think it should be possible to build consensus > around (but maybe I'm naive): The issue of context for controversial > images. For example, although it may be pe

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions forPotentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-22 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Actually I think there is one issue that has still not been well discussed, and which I think it should be possible to build consensus around (but maybe I'm naive): The issue of context for controversial images. For example, although it may be perfectly fine to include an image of nude bondage