Ask YC: Feedback on my site No-NSFW, The Not-Safe-For-Work Warning System.

by ptm • 18 years ago

5 32 18 years ago

No-NSFW is a Firefox extension which warns you if the link that you clicked on is NSFW. NSFW ratings are determined by user-votes cast via the extension.

The extension could be rough around the edges - would appreciate any feedback / bug reports.

Caligula• 18 years ago

I would of went for NOTnsfw.com

It is still available.

http://www.whois.net/dnr/index.php?d=notnsfw&tld=com

antiismist• 18 years ago

I think the double-negative is slightly confusing.

My favorite available one is:

safeftw.com: "safe for the work" OR "safe for the win"

kirubakaran6• 18 years ago

Since you are rewriting all external links on web pages to go through your website, I am exposing my browsing habits to you, right?

ptm11• 18 years ago

Yes, but you could disable it when you don't mind seeing NSFW content.

ten-seven• 18 years ago

Still, this is a deal killer.

Husafan3• 18 years ago

Why do you need to rewrite links to your server? Can your extension not insert JavaScript to do most of this logic client-side?

nanijoe• 18 years ago

..Which in turn means this should be a feature of a plugin like 8aweek, or maybe 8aweek could be a feature of this plugin :)

aggieben2• 18 years ago

This is the crucial thing:

  Unrated links default to Safe-For-Work.

The extension becomes useless if the ratings don't keep up with content (in other words, if some dude posts a nudie picture of his girlfriend, it's got to be rated before I get to it or your extension doesn't help me).

ptm11• 18 years ago

I could change that, but won't it would get too annoying (for a fresh data-set) ?

Husafan3• 18 years ago

Seems like this should be settable. If I want to be uber-cautious, not rated should default to NSFW. Also, maybe a white/black list of domains the user knows to be safe/unsafe for themselves?

aggieben2• 18 years ago

That's really my point though: it's not being über-cautious to default to NSFW, because the point is to not get fired for accidentally clicking on a landmine.

If you can't give some sense of confidence that the tool will prevent that scenario, then it's usefulness is limited.

ptm11• 18 years ago

Did anyone actually install the plugin :) ? I would appreciate any bug reports / feedback.

kirubakaran6• 18 years ago

Instead of rewriting the links, can you asynchronously (without holding up the browser) check all the external links after the page loads and mark all the nsfw links in red or something like that? This way, privacy concerns can be addressed to a certain extent (if you can also don't store the current url that I am on).

[edit:oops, just noticed that Husafan comment says pretty much the same thing.]

ptm11• 18 years ago

I could do that.

rksprst• 18 years ago

Just tried whitehouse.com and it said it's safe for work. i couldn't figure out how to vote on the site (without using the plugin).

ptm11• 18 years ago

For now you can only vote via the extension. And the site is pretty much empty, so all sites default to safe.

kirubakaran6• 18 years ago

You can screen scrape nsfw.reddit

andr• 18 years ago

Is that really an issue? I've stumbled across NSFW sites when I had day jobs and nobody minded. People actually found it kinda funny.

inklesspen• 18 years ago

http://corknut.org/worksafer/ dates back to 2005.

Ask YC: Feedback on my site No-NSFW, The Not-Safe-For-Work Warning System.

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