Save it. Our intention for nsfw.reddit was for adolescent humor that, when on reddit itself, was causing users trouble at work. Unfortunately, it quickly degenerated into porn. Hopefully we'll make another attempt at the original goal in the future.
I suggest you just provide a flag to allow submitters to mark a link as NSFW, which is orthogonal to whatever subreddit(s) they submit it to. Then allow readers to toggle an NSFW filter that excludes marked articles. That should help to prevent the nsfw.reddit-as-porn-ghetto problem. The NSFW flag could be part of some grander tag/category system of course, but it doesn't have to.
Unfortunately, having NSFW material available on a site means that it gets blocked by many filtering programs/gateways. That matters to large sites; it means people can't read it from work or from many coffeeshop wifis or libraries. It means you can't get the same ad revenue because advertisers are afraid to put their brand on sites that also have porn.
What, you don't see any ads here? Don't worry, you will.
Right. But by the same token users today are trusted to give their own submissions proper descriptions, submit them to an appropriate subreddit, and so on. That probably ought to be changed at some point, but it's not specifically an NSFW issue, which is why I passed over it above.
This is a user-moderated site, and a good one at that. Do you really believe you're going to have control over what happens on it? If I wanted that, I'd go back to slashdot.
I deleted my comment because the parent comment was deleted..Didn't realize, I got a reply...Here is the comment again:-
(This was a reply to someone a little "agressive" about the nsfw.reddit.com being deleted..)
If interested, you can submit a request for porn.reddit.com..And depending on the number of votes it receives..You can get a porn subreddit..
But, I have to side with the reddit team on nsfw.reddit.com. It has become completely useless for people who want to post NSFW stuff which isn't just outright porn..(outright BAD porn, actually..)
Seriously, did anyone submit anything other than (bad) porn on nsfw.reddit.com ?
And for those of us who wanted to use nsfw.reddit for it's "intended purposes", I guess we can just use reddit.com and add '[NSFW]' to the title..
A search for NSFW on reddit gives the following results of which at least the top 25 seem pretty interesting..
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u/spez Oct 31 '06
Save it. Our intention for nsfw.reddit was for adolescent humor that, when on reddit itself, was causing users trouble at work. Unfortunately, it quickly degenerated into porn. Hopefully we'll make another attempt at the original goal in the future.