Can we please make an effort to say if something isn't work safe?

[Lithium381]

i'm assuming you're american......it's always on someone else, can't ever take responsibility eh?

 

[agnitrate]

I'd like to contend this and say that there isn't ENOUGH not work safe stuff on this forum. After a long hard day of classes and due to my increasing levels of desensitized violence, I find it necessary to quench my blood-thirst with sadistic pictures. There isn't enough material posted on AT to sastify (yes, sastify) my needs. I think we need to be much looser in our terms of what we consider objectionable due to society imprinting its daily images of gore and violence on my impressionable young mind.

Therefore, I believe that not only is a NWS icon NOT needed, but the fact of the matter is that we need icons to categorize exactly what level of violence we're dealing with here. I'm going to lay out an initial scale here, nothing concrete of course, of material and its related level of violence.

Vile-o-meter
---------------
0: Optimistic, informational post
1: Slight agitation akin to being turned down by yet another woman (failure)
2: Fair amounts of gore but not nearly enough to quench my thirst, like a typical hollywood slasher film
3: Getting up there in terms of violence, people being murdered, executed, maimed, etc
4: Mind-numbing violence that will sastify most people. Pedophiles murdered in jail, Racial-induced violence, etc
5: Dezign attention whore threads (lol engaged to Curly McPubeHair)

As you can see, this is clearly a diving off point for this system. I feel it is instrumental that we incorporate this into the next version of FuseTalk, for my sanity and others'.

p.s. if you're able to browse a computer on the job and have the balls to complain about the crap you're seeing, I've got some news for you :

a) you're expendable because nobody important sits on their ass at work
b) you're a waste of life with no ability to censor the material you watch (you would especially fail working at the RIAA where they censor everybody else as well)
c) stop posting

Die.

-silver

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: SampSon
No, you browse at work at your own risk.
I'm sick of people whining because they clicked a "not work safe" link.

Send the link to your boss and ask him if it's work safe.

All joking aside, why are you rolling your eyes? This the the only forum I've visited where NWS labeling has been this much of a percieved problem. What is it about labeling that you(and everyone else against it for that matter) have an issue with? I'm at a loss here for an explaination.

 

[zixxer]

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever

Originally posted by: kranky

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever
How about you get back to work instead of trying to change the forum to suit your personal needs?

Or, how about members show a bit of courtesy to other members and take <5 seconds to say if something's not work safe? Do you really think that's asking someone to "change the forum"?

The majority agrees with me, so your point is meaningless. This is off topic, few things here would be considered "work safe" by the OP probably. I think the majority of the users here would agree that saying NWS or having a red icon in front of the posts will be annoying for most users. If people are worried about getting caught by their bosses on the internet, then that's their problem. Instead of trying to change the forum to suit their needs, people should post on potentially questionable threads and ask if the link is NWS.

wtf is your problem? Free internet browsing is allowed where I work. However, having someone walk up behind me while I've clicked on some link isn't cool. I don't think it's like I'm "changing the whole forum" hell; half the time people DO say if it's not work safe.

 

[KarenMarie]

I agree in theory to the suggestion that things that are gory and offensive have a warning.

Not a disclaimer, as such, but it would be respectful to warn ppl that they are gonna click on something that will show gore or offensive material BEFORE they click the link.



edit: 2nd 1/2 got lost in cyberspace.

But since most ppl do not post links and stuff without any explaination in the topic and post, how often does someone click on a link without some idea that is might not be worksafe? If ppl are just looking for a warning so they dont get in trouble with the boss, the pehaps turning down the speakers would help before clicking!