Comment by 0perspective on 01/09/2020 at 19:05 UTC

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View submission: An update on subreddit classification efforts

For the trial beta, we’re focused on developing a system to get and verify content tags and making sure the tags and mature themes we’ve identified are helpful and accurate. For the community feed, once we’re ready to make the community content tags public, we have a rough idea[1] of where we’re planning on placing this eventually.

1: https://preview.redd.it/ul6v66cw3lk51.png?width=1952&format=png&auto=webp&s=63012f8942fc8584e9da929d5617ecefe8087dd3

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Comment by grizwald87 at 02/09/2020 at 04:00 UTC

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Fair enough, but I can't emphasize enough how much current demand (at least on my sub) is for a post-level NSFL tag.

As it stands, these tags are deeply unhelpful for communities where content can range considerably, and they do in most of the communities I frequent.

Also, they don't seem to make a useful intensity distinction at the high end, e.g. rating an M for swearing doesn't make it seem like an M is as serious as an NSFW tag currently is, and X and V tags seem to correspond more closely with NSFW than NSFL.

For example, everything on r/combatfootage would earn a V, which doesn't assist anybody in discerning between the more banal footage and the occasional stuff that would *really* gross someone out.

Bottom line, this rating system seems designed for parental guidance of children and young teens, not adults.