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How are thumbnails chosen for feeds? Are they
chosen by the person creating the feed like we do while making a
screencapture on a Mac for our vlog? Or is it the first frame of a
feed?
No thumbnail may be a wee bit of overkill.
Why not thumbnails for porn feeds that aren't pornographic themselves?
Pornography is tedious because there is so much of it and very little than any
specific person enjoys.
A non-porno thumbnail would show you if the film
featured (1) hetero or homo sex (2) blonds or Latinos of Asians (3) thin and
anemic or heavy and hefty, etc. Couldn't you set "standards for
thumbnails" that would work out for everyone's benefit?
Glad to see you attempting to err on the side of
not censoring.
Randolfe (Randy) Wicker
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 9:15
PM
Subject: [videoblogging] Re: Porn on
mefeedia??
Hey Jay,
yes, I noticed it as well. It was inevitable, I
am actually surprised
it took this long..
So here's the plan we
have, for now. In a few months we'll probably
add more features. I have
given this some thought over the past
months, and there is a balance: I
want mefeedia to be an open
directory, which means we don't censor feeds
(except in extreme cases
of hate speach and such...), not even porn. The
best example of a feed
I don't want to censor is Richard's (MAdge
Weinstein), which is
sometimes very good, and a great videoblog, but also
could be called
pretty nasty porn, sometimes.
So: if we don't want
to censor, but we do want to protect, what do we do?
While surfing
Mefeedia, the shock I get is from seeing the thumbnails.
It's just not nice
to see a thumbnail of some naked guy if you're not
expecting it. Bad
experience.
So I have decided to, for porn feeds, *not* to show
thumbnails in the
website. The feeds are still there, you can still
subscribe to them.
But the pictures are hidden: so you can browse the
website and you
won't see any naked people.
I think that's a good
first step. It's a careful step. I am very
conscious of not wanting to
censor people's feeds. But I think this
will help. It should be live in
about a week.
Any comments?
Peter
> Just wanted to throw
something out to the vlogger community.
> I just went to check mefeedia
site. Because of an email from Devlon
and was bummed to
> see some
one had submitted a Iporn site which was inevitable.
>
> I
personally am not opposed to porn but when it comes up so
blatantly we as
vloggers are
> going to need to find away so that when we are showing
new people
"youth" how to Vlog
> and the tools that are available
that this stuff does not hit us in
the face.
>
> Hopefully
someone is exploring ways to deal with it.
> I am commited to helping
others learn to Vlogg.
>
>
> Jay Cole
>
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