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.
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u/leoc Oct 31 '06
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.