Flickr introduces Smut Flagging Filters

[mandy]

One of the best things about Flickr is that our membership is made up of people from so many places and diverse backgrounds. It's important to us that everyone feel comfortable, despite vastly different cultural and personal comfort levels. What I like, you might not, and it's up to the entire community to make this work. So, we've rolled out content filtering which allows you to flag your images as you upload and also set your viewing preferences for what you'd like to see (or not)...

# Uploading: The new system enables you to categorize everything you upload by Safety Level (safe, moderate, restricted) and Content Type. So as an example, you can set a default preference to tell Flickr you generally upload safe screenshots.

# Searching and Viewing: The reason you need to place your content into the categories above is so that content filters can be applied later on, both in search and in your general browsing around. There is a new search preference available to you, where you can choose what content you'd normally like to have show up in searches (e.g. photos and screenshots), and a safety level you're comfortable with...

full announcement: http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2007/0...g_fil.html

If you're afraid of seeing photos on the Flickr site that don't quite match your personal tolerance for adult content, the image sharing site has a new filtering feature that you should enjoy. Photographers who see themselves as artists may not be as enthused...

The issues of filtering and marking content, which a photographer may deem artistic, could result in some internal conflicts. Think about this: if as a photographer you consider your work to be art, whether it's a photo of a stone fence or a nude person, why would you choose to limit your exposure by labeling it as anything but "Safe"?...

full article: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/0...oto-filtrs