@Mad Black
Based on a first look at this new system… some interesting observations.
It seems like there are only 1,000 logged in users or so total using filters. What does that mean? Presumably that everyone else is using a legacy filter.
Of that, all but a tiny handful are viewing the site in no filter mode, meaning those that have adjusted their settings don’t wish to filter anything. and those that are using “popular” filters are overwhelmingly filtering out everything
but clop material.
Presumably the emphasis on clop will remain (in the main filter page that all users visit) since that is how these things work in a popularity contest…
What this changeover ignores is that – for an anonymous or new user, since they don’t see the statistics for legacy filters, it gives the impression of being a furry porn site –
a site that shows both sfw and nsfw images essentially by default, where the expectation is that most users come for the porn.
Is that in fact the case? Because I wasn’t aware of that when I joined, but it seems increasingly the case despite the fact that the vast majority of people looking for or posting up pony art is SFW, but the audience for upvotes and activity seems a bit skewed in that regard
Because the thing about derpibooru is that, until now, you could send people to it as a predominantly sfw site.
Users had to log in and turn on explicit images to see porn; even on twentypercentcooler.net, one has to do that.
As it is currently, remember that most site traffic presumably comes from non-logged in users and they have to be considered.
It’s not a matter of “think of the children”, although sure, it’s that too. it’s that you don’t have to do anything as a casual visitor for all images to appear except reload the page! a user should have to take active steps to show/hide mature content just as they would on any other site that’s intended to be predominantly sfw.
Unless of course the admins consider this a furry fansite (i.e. where the expectation is that “if you’re posting here, you’ve got a fetish”) and we shouldn’t moralfag about nsfw content? Presumably there was a rationale for the old system of auto-hide tags, does that rationale no longer hold and if not, why not?
I don’t have a problem with anons being able to show/hide mature content if they have a click-thru page to do so, although it begs the question of what’s changed since the admins originally wanted it to be a sfw site for non-logged-in users. but I honestly wouldn’t have joined the site (as a would-be “artist”) – if it had come across as a thing where the vast majority of users are here for clop…
which is the impression you get from the new filters page. In fact under the current system you have to click-thru as an anon to
hide mature content, since the “Default” filters are non-self-explanatory and are not actually default.
Also the impression you get from the filters page is a bit skewed since it a) shows only the 1,000 users who have adjusted their filters and doesn’t show the 79,000 users who are on “personal default filter” and b) doesn’t show the presumably 100,000 anons who up till now visited the site in sfw mode and now are in nsfw mode by default the minute they visit another page on the site (at least in my browser, or possibly by javascript default.)