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View submission: An update on subreddit classification efforts
I'm confused by the system. On r/philosophy we usually have unrated content; but at times a post may discuss porn, sexual ethics, or violence. Are we expected (or even required) to highlight this?
(Actually any of the tags could apply for individual post, pretty sure we also had posts about weapons or gambling).
What about r/askphilosophy or other academic subs where the same is true, any of the themes may be discussed?
Oh and while we're at it, an askPhil user likes to say sweet fuck; is that profanity you'd like us to highlight?
In general I think more guidelines and/or an exceptions route would be nice.
Comment by MPCaton at 02/09/2020 at 15:34 UTC
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I have the same concern as a mod of a creative writing sub - we sometimes have posts of stories with nsfw elements but that isn't the point of the sub, and if we were categorised with the fiction subs that exist solely for erotica or gore, then we lose a useful distinction (and I can't imagine that many serious creative writing subs would avoid this, seeing as a lot of fiction involves "V" and "X" topics without being intended to be an erotic or violent experience as one might seek out on some reddit subs). Can we have a distinction in the rules that while a sub may "regularly discuss" such content, that content is still not the raison d'être of the sub as it may be for others?
Comment by V2Blast at 11/09/2020 at 05:09 UTC
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> Is this only for entire subreddits or is a similar system eventually planned for individual posts?
That’s a big part of the vision but first we believe we need to build up community level content tag coverage, learn from this roll out and assess how best to approach post level content tags.
Right now, it's just sort of for tagging communities in a clearer way than just slapping a generic "NSFW" tag on the community or not. I think the expectations around whether individual posts should be tagged NSFW or not hasn't really changed - it's just a matter of categorizing communities in a general sense to indicate to users what sort of content is typical there. So a community where NSFW content isn't *expected* doesn't need to be marked as adult or whatever - you can just continue marking individual posts NSFW as needed, even if the community as a whole isn't.
(/u/MPCaton, see above as well)