https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/lhnvok/removing_sexually_explicit_content_from_rall/
created by KeyserSosa on 11/02/2021 at 16:07 UTC
1290 upvotes, 335 top-level comments (showing 25)
Hi Reddit,
After hearing from redditors in surveys, comment threads, and feedback in places like r/ideasfortheadmins and r/changelog, over the years, we’ve learned that unexpectedly stumbling across sexually explicit content is jarring and uncomfortable for a lot of people. Starting next week, sexually explicit content will not be shown in the r/all feed.
Our intent with removing this content from r/all is to make it easier for anyone to browse Reddit without accidentally viewing pornographic or sexually explicit content, while still allowing redditors who *want* to find that kind of content to do so at their own discretion.
Since the beginning of Reddit, there’s been SFW (Safe for Work) and NSFW (Not Safe for Work) communities, and there will continue to be so. That said, NSFW is a pretty broad category, and doesn’t give us a good idea of what *type* of content redditors actually want to see while navigating the platform (many redditors would like to separate pornographic content from other NSFW content, for example). Over the last year, we’ve worked with moderators and trusted community members to help us accurately evolve the NSFW tag to create more specific and nuanced content tags via our subreddit classification[1] efforts. We're leveraging those tags to filter communities with sexually explicit content from the r/all feed.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/hoac3v/keeping_reddit_real_subreddit_content/
Over the next year, we’ll be working on more advanced filtering at the post level to give redditors more control over what they do and don’t want to see while browsing Reddit. Maybe you’re cool with sexual content, but don’t want the gore. Maybe you’re ok seeing depictions of graphic medical surgeries or violence, but are recovering from addiction and don’t want to see drugs or alcohol in your feed. As we evolve our classification system, we’ll advance the tools that let redditors control their experience on the platform as well.
As we’ve said in the past, *nobody wants to pull a Tumblr*[2] (though in fairness it’s usually “pull a digg” as the main concern, so...). Our commitment is to keep the broad variety of content on Reddit open and public. It’s a priority for us to provide a welcoming environment with predictable experience for the diverse and eclectic group of humans that make up the Reddit community. We’ll continue to share our progress on this and other projects and are happy to hear other ideas or features you’d like to see to make the NSFW system work better.
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/hoac3v/keeping_reddit_real_subreddit_content/
Comment by somethingdangerzone at 11/02/2021 at 17:25 UTC
229 upvotes, 4 direct replies
Doesn't /r/popular already filter out NSFW content?
Can't people change their own settings to filter out NSFW content if they want?
Comment by rbevans at 11/02/2021 at 18:34 UTC
115 upvotes, 3 direct replies
My understanding is that was one of the reasons r/popular was created. How does r/popular set itself apart from r/all going forward?
Comment by [deleted] at 11/02/2021 at 16:10 UTC
207 upvotes, 5 direct replies
Haven't people been asking for an NSFW-only version of r/all for a while?
This seems like the perfect opportunity to give us an excuse to clear our browser history more often.
Comment by somethingdangerzone at 11/02/2021 at 17:24 UTC*
134 upvotes, 8 direct replies
Will you be creating an alternative to /r/all that does include NSFW content as well as SFW content?
Edit: the lack of a reply is very telling
Comment by kidkolumbo at 11/02/2021 at 17:49 UTC
53 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Isn't /r/popular the generally clean version of all?
I don't want to be a prude (I do sub to nsfw accounts), but I'm less tripping over nsfw on all and moreso that r/all/rising is filled with NSFW. It's not even a fun variety of nsfw, it's person after person peddling their onlyfans account. That's what's the most absurd thing imo.
Comment by t0asti at 11/02/2021 at 16:14 UTC
79 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Are you going to pull gore/violence/depictions of graphic medical surgeries from r/all as well then? I think there's a large portion of users who dont want to see that. And how will that resulting r/all feed be different from r/popular? Isnt that already a filtered r/all without sexually explicit or gorey content?
Comment by CGAura at 11/02/2021 at 17:38 UTC
32 upvotes, 1 direct replies
But people are okay with stumbling across other types of nsfw content? God forbid ppl see bewbs, but violent injury that's cool.
Comment by creepyharry124 at 11/02/2021 at 20:35 UTC
31 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It really sucks that you're not providing a replacement, especially when we already had /r/popular. You should at least turn /r/NSFW into a nsfw only feed.
Comment by TrMark at 12/03/2021 at 14:16 UTC
28 upvotes, 2 direct replies
How long until someone creates an addon to re-enable nsfw posts? r/all is basically r/popular now
As we’ve said in the past, nobody wants to pull a Tumblr
You just did
Comment by rxzlmn at 11/02/2021 at 17:56 UTC
78 upvotes, 2 direct replies
it's called r/all, not r/some though?
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we’ll be working on more advanced filtering
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integrating an optional filter for NSFW and leaving r/all as is was not possible?
Comment by Halaku at 11/02/2021 at 16:33 UTC
25 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Will this also affect the r/all/gilded/ feed?
Comment by zcon at 11/02/2021 at 17:48 UTC
24 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Why are you not giving users the option to opt out of this change? Is looking for NSFW content on all not a use case you want to support?
Comment by UncleArthur at 11/02/2021 at 20:21 UTC
23 upvotes, 0 direct replies
So what was the point of r/popular then? And what will be the difference between that subreddit and r/all?
Comment by riiga at 11/02/2021 at 16:11 UTC
42 upvotes, 1 direct replies
So to be clear, this is filtering out by the new sureddit classification system and not a blanket removal of all posts tagged NSFW from /r/all?
Comment by PurpleSlurpeeXo at 11/02/2021 at 17:39 UTC
40 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Do these people not know how to hide NSFW posts from /all?
Comment by gyro2death at 11/02/2021 at 18:49 UTC
20 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I can understand and even appreciate the idea here. However, this feels like the cheap and dirty solution when the problem is 10 years old. A proper filter system should have been developed ages ago instead of this.
Further /r/all is used for discovery by most, this pretty much kills discovery of NSFW communities, which you guys should obviously be aware of. After reading the response I think that this is probably just the first step in way of pushing the NSFW content out of the way of advertisers.
Comment by CeeApostropheD at 11/02/2021 at 20:54 UTC
15 upvotes, 0 direct replies
What a crushingly gamechanging decision this is. Love surprise NSFWs from subs I don't subscribe to.
Comment by Golden-Pickaxe at 11/02/2021 at 17:54 UTC
15 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Wow an actual mention of digg, the absolute bravado of these lads
Comment by anotherstupidworkacc at 11/02/2021 at 22:02 UTC
16 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I'm not happy about this at all. /r/all is supposed to be ALL of the stuff. if you wanted to do this, why not make it opt in/out? I'm really trying not to be insulting here but this ham-handed change feels pretty insulting to me.
Comment by 69420memes at 11/02/2021 at 17:28 UTC
15 upvotes, 1 direct replies
what about the gore, I'd rather see a dick than a severed arm.
Comment by bringbacklemonadesGS at 18/03/2021 at 01:50 UTC
14 upvotes, 0 direct replies
After hearing from redditors in surveys, comment threads, and feedback in places like r/ideasfortheadmins and r/changelog, over the years
Why lie to us? No one asked for that. Ever. Not one sensible human. You already have a NSFW filter in everyone's settings, You have /r/popular, you have multisubreddits or whatever the fuck they are. Let me make my own god damn decisions or I'll go somewhere that does.
Comment by KeyserSosa at 11/02/2021 at 16:08 UTC
77 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Fun fact, r/nsfw is our oldest subreddit by far, with a creation date of 01/20/2006 @ 3:49am (UTC). We created it several years before we really had a notion of subreddits for the *same* reason as the change here: there was a single feed (what eventually became r/reddit.com in later years) and it didn’t make sense to have a pile of news and porn.
Comment by [deleted] at 11/02/2021 at 21:25 UTC
14 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by SephYuyX at 12/03/2021 at 12:28 UTC
14 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Ok, so how DO I see rising/new/hot NSFW posts that belong to any and all subs now?
Comment by q2ism at 19/03/2021 at 18:06 UTC
13 upvotes, 0 direct replies
You do realize NSFW content is toggled off by default right? People don't "unexpectedly stumble across sexually explicit content".
Such a braindead move.