Hey guys, it’s been a long time. I was sick for awhile, so sick I have 2 hospital visits which almost landed me 6ft under. This is why I’ve basically been entirely absent the past few months. This has left Burger all alone to do both the public facing PR type stuff (which used to be my territory) and the backend.
Well, my situation is returning to normal, and thus I am also returning to Burggit. I’d like for you to voice your feedback and what you would like to change and any issues you have specifically.
Something I will be changing is, and I hate to be this guy who comes in and does this. I will be removing the 3Dloli community as I personally believe that community violates our at-a-glance policy. I can not tell the difference for most of these images “at a glance” and since I will be the one looking through these sorts of things for moderation. It’s best for everyone involved that I am able to make good accurate decisions.
I also know that there’s been issues with the Lemmy-NSFW fork being used, some people want us to fork it, make modifications to it and use that. I’m going to shoot this idea down now. Burggit is just me and Burger, there’s no one else here, and we do have other things we like working on. We’re not maintaining an entire special fork. It’s likely that we will just go back to the main Lemmy branch, though I would be open to arguments against that or maybe even suggestions for already existing forks to use.
However, I think The Entire Circus made a good point in this post and personally, I agree with his points.
Anyway this is just kind of an initial post letting you know that I am returning and things will be changing. Hopefully this will be overall a good thing for everyone involved. Happy to be back.
Thanks for creating this pinned feedback post. I think the post linked covers my thoughts, so there’s no point pasting it again here. Since that post, I think the suggestions by RA2lover (“blurred NSFW thumbnails” and “non auto-expanded images” for visitors/non-registered users) would be a good compromise. This seems to be broadly supported from those that replied in the thread, and it would be on par with Reddit’s approach towards NSFW content visibility for visitors.
However, I’m not sure if this requires modifications that have been covered above - if it does and it isn’t possible, then I’m in favor of a reversion to the original login/registration-gated NSFW posts and communities.
It might be a ghost-town (for now), but I suspect that’s better than rolling the dice on whether a visitor and potential joinee sees something they quite dislike splashed across their screen on their first visit, and associates that with the entire branch as a whole. Given the ratio of NSFW to SFW posts already noted, I reckon that dice doesn’t need too many rolls for that outcome. This place might still end up ghost-town, but with a significantly worse off reputation among those that hear horror stories of “Could you believe I saw ___ on the front page? God only know what they’re hiding behind locked doors for registered members if that’s what they show to the public” and visit for themselves to find out it’s true.
This ship sailed long ago. There’s no point in trying to appeal to those that are intolerant of the existence of fetish content.
That’s a fair statement. Imo there would still be gradations of fetish content (with some being more extreme than others), and I think if the main concern (which led to the changes) is increasing the userbase, having the more extreme content equally as visible as the less extreme content would be counterproductive to that end.
That said, I think this has been covered to death already, and much of it is just discussing hypotheticals without any data to lead to a conclusive conclusion, so I’ll leave it at that.