On 29/12/06, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott
Reynen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>many people are publishing "NSFW" warnings. So vague as it may be,
>it's apparently communicating something useful on the live web today.
That's "something useful in a large judeo-christian western democracy",
then...
What's "safe for work" in China, or Iran?
Is a nude picture of a 17-year old safe for work in Holland? Or the UK?
This is exactly the issue we came up with when we started discussing a
content-rating format a few months back, and previous again to that
[1].
It's very difficult to come up with a universal standard for
describing content and it's "safety". However, "NSFW" is a term
starting to be used as commonly as other "web speak" terms such as
"LOL" or "RTFM" (poor examples, but the point is - not everyone who
uses that necessarily knows what it means or where it originates).
The concept of being able to mark something as unsafe, mature, NSFW,
etc. *does* keep cropping back up though - so this may point to either
the need to explain and introduce/encourage people to use the
resolution suggested previously (i.e. using rel), or thinking again
about something a little more solid.
[1]http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-July/004942.html
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