Nice, this is very helpful. I remember reading the Eliezer post, but not much of any surrounding discussion.
I personally am reasonably sympathetic to the top commenter, and also we have better mechanisms for people to hide this kind of stuff from their site experience now. But I do think it makes Davis’s argument pretty forceful in that the last moderation action (even if over a decade ago) on this topic was to decide not to have that kind of stuff around. I’ll think about whether I’ll want to change that decision, or release new guidance, or whatever.
FWIW my current stance is that this content is good for the reasons you mention, but that I (and I suspect many others) would like slightly better ability to filter it out of our day-to-day site experience.
My first idea is that standard NSFW content (i.e. explicitly sexual) should be able to be flagged by readers as such (not relying on the author to get it right). For posts it should let you know at the top of the post, either in the tags or beside the author name and date) and that NSFW comments should be click-to-view, like how Reddit does with many images.
And of course, users like Wentworth should easily be able to hit a toggle in their user settings for “don’t blur NSFW content for me”.
Nice, this is very helpful. I remember reading the Eliezer post, but not much of any surrounding discussion.
I personally am reasonably sympathetic to the top commenter, and also we have better mechanisms for people to hide this kind of stuff from their site experience now. But I do think it makes Davis’s argument pretty forceful in that the last moderation action (even if over a decade ago) on this topic was to decide not to have that kind of stuff around. I’ll think about whether I’ll want to change that decision, or release new guidance, or whatever.
FWIW my current stance is that this content is good for the reasons you mention, but that I (and I suspect many others) would like slightly better ability to filter it out of our day-to-day site experience.
My first idea is that standard NSFW content (i.e. explicitly sexual) should be able to be flagged by readers as such (not relying on the author to get it right). For posts it should let you know at the top of the post, either in the tags or beside the author name and date) and that NSFW comments should be click-to-view, like how Reddit does with many images.
And of course, users like Wentworth should easily be able to hit a toggle in their user settings for “don’t blur NSFW content for me”.