Porn

[This post appeared first on Cent]

So I had a bit of a long night last evening and a busy morning until now, so my daily post (which I want to ideally send out before I pass out every night) is a bit late.

But I don't want to talk about the after work cocktails I grabbed with colleagues last night, or the secret plan I am cooking up with a few Centians or even the entertaining call I had with @Joel until nearly 12am. Instead I want to talk about porn.

By now I am sure all of you have seen - or quickly scrolled past - the NSFW post from @OneEyedKing.

Reactions poured in very quickly, and based on the replies and messages I've seen, it appears Centians are split on whether the post should be taken down or not.

What they don't seem to be split on is whether or not it's porn, or at least pornographic.

Regardless of whether or not you think that specific post is pornographic, this incident represents a super important moment for Cent. How it's handled will define the type of site Cent becomes. That's my belief at least.

So, should Cent ban posts like this? Or not?

I personally don't think posts like @OneEyedKing's should be removed. But I also understand many Centians simply don't want to see such posts.

So while the Cent team is still working on a solution, I imagine that whatever is decided will end up being a bit of a compromise.

For example, I think that adding the ability to tag a post as NSFW (similar to how users can flag posts and replies for potentially being illegal or violating Cent policies now) while also adding a NSFW switch to user accounts so that they can opt out of seeing posts that have been flagged as NSFW could satisfy both sides.

Are there any better ideas or solutions that are easy to implement that could allow porn lovers and haters to each have their cakes and eat them too?

Are there any strong arguments out there for simply banning any and all pornographic material from Cent?