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I mod a very small art-themed sub.
Nudity in art is always a contentious issue with some seeing as perfectly fine, others may not see it as suitable for work viewing. The intentions of the artist also play a major roll, I wouldnt put 17th century academic painting in the same category as erotic art, for example.
While I think this is a good move overall, I will be very curious how this rolls out along the fuzzy edges between categories.
If I had maybe 10% of my posts containing artistic nudity, I wouldn't want my whole sub labelled NSFW, but I also wouldn't want to manually label all posts on the off chance one user has an overly conservative work place.
Comment by woodpaneled at 09/07/2020 at 21:03 UTC
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One thing we learned while doing this work is that there are certainly a *lot* of edge cases, and it is hard to account for every one of them - especially with the kind of diversity and breadth we see on Reddit! But the specific example you brought up is one that we did think about, and we aimed to address it by having different scales for porn vs. non-pornographic nudity. We also try to take into account volume: we’re looking at what is most commonly posted.