The suggestions post

[denise]

Soon (for certain values of 'soon'), there will be a "suggestions generator", where you fill out forms and it will post an entry to this community for you, for discussion and the like.

Until then, if you've got something you'd like to suggest for Dreamwidth, you can leave it as a comment here! You can review our development roadmap explanation first, since it includes a lot of our upcoming big projects.

The Suggestions Generator is now live! Please fill out that form instead.

Comments

[dunv-i.livejournal.com]

This is the obligatory get rid of adult content filters post.

[afuna]

Bullet-point response to obligatory get rid of adult content filters post.


Adult content filters are still available on Dreamwidth, because they do serve a useful purpose, but in much modified form:

* The system is entirely voluntary. No one else can flag your entries or force your entries to be flagged adult

* The names of the levels have been changed, from "adult explicit" and "adult content", to 18+ and 14+ (though I think that they're eventually going to be renamed to 18+ and some variant of NSFW)

* You can give a reason for why you're flagging your journal/entry as adult, and it will show up on the interstitial page

Combined, I think that all three changes make the system neutral and useful, instead of creepy and policing.

[dunv-i.livejournal.com]

(I do agree, admittedly; my main reason for being on the no filters side is that I am under 18 still :P)

[afuna]

(Aww man.

Hey, there's no guarantee that people will filter all the interesting stuff ;-))

[dunv-i.livejournal.com]

Even when they do, I just go through. I haven't set an age; I'm planning to set it as soon as I turn 18 next year. Unfortunately, that's still 10 months away.

Actually, I don't really have a problem, per se, with people filtering posts or even communities. That's a choice made to protect the content and the writers themselves that I can understand. My main problem with the filters is when people set entire private journals to adult content. That irks me.

And I actually really like that there's an option to give a reason for flagging it.

[cora]

That's why you lie about the year you were born in ;)

I've always been against the reporting part against the filters.

I'm not happy with the filters still being around, but not being able to police is an acceptable compromise (and I'll even be happy with it, since it's not such a big deal, and more especially since it's going into a NSFW).

I also feel that there shouldn't be an ability to report someone one your friends list (a post of theirs, their journal, whatever). Simply because if something they did offended you WHY DON'T YOU JUST USE COMMON SENSE AND UNFRIEND THEM?! That's what pissed me off the most about strike through.

[elizabeth_rice]

You can give a reason for why you're flagging your journal/entry as adult, and it will show up on the interstitial page
What's inter-whatsit page? And where?
About the reason (since there's no FAQ yet), which is optimal to use: keyword or sentence?

I thought it was like the interest box which uses keywords.

[afuna]

The interstitial page is the intervening page, that shows up when you try to click through to an entry that's NSFW or 18+.

I think that a sentence looks better.

It looks like this

[elizabeth_rice]

Oh, I see. Thanks a lot!

[cora]

THAT IS EPICALLY EPIC :O