I'm still waiting for the day when people will stop being absurdly neurotic about sexuality and just let people share their stuff as long as it's age flagged appropriately. It's so absurd that the most normal thing on earth is put into the same moderation category as harassment or hate speech.
Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content
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#22Many social networking sites (YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr, etc.) prohibit sexual content, racism and unauthorised use of trademarks in their terms and conditions, but in practice they've mostly left it alone, so I doubt Imgur will be so thorough.
It's usually enough to CYA with the TOS, but then operate strictly on a complaint basis. Like your typical cops do.
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#23Can we please stop using “NSFW” as a euphemism for porn? I feel like I’m going crazy today between this and Reddit. The standard for something to qualify as NSFW is much lower than straight up pornography. It was originally anything you wouldn’t want your boss to see you looking at if he walked up behind you at your cubicle. The use of the term is incredibly vague. If you’re banning porn just say you’re banning porn…
If you actually clicked the link before posting it specifies more than just porn.
And porn is the most interesting aspect as it's morality is much more debatable than hate speech, doxing people, etc.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can just post directly to Reddit now.
Not on NSFW subreddits. Unless this changed recently, you have to upload your image elsewhere and then submit the link to NSFW subs
that is only for images in comments. image submissions to subreddits are still ok. A lot of communities have imgur-only rules due to other image hosts having lower retention or invasive UX.
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#25Many social networking sites (YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr, etc.) prohibit sexual content, racism and unauthorised use of trademarks in their terms and conditions, but in practice they've mostly left it alone, so I doubt Imgur will be so thorough.
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#26Tumblr 2.0 incoming? It's a not-so-unspoken fact that a lot of social media platforms are popular because they have tons of pornography. Reddit, Twitter, OnlyFans (more openly) and (until now) Imgur all have massive communities around explicit content. Even Twitch and YouTube are hugely successful as ways for OnlyFans creators to drive users to their explicit content. Going to be very interesting to see if imgur drop…
Reddit has also recently announced moves in regards to NSFW content[1] by limiting data access to mature content more aggressively than they currently do. It seems like an area a lot of platforms are struggling with and seem to opt for a complete ban. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/12qwagm/an_update_r...
FWIW, Reddit's new limits are about 3rd party use of their data/APIs. As a regular user, it doesn't really change anything (unless you consume Reddit NSFW content exclusively through a 3rd party app, I guess), so a pretty different case than Imgur's change here, which fundamentally shifts their user-base.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can just post directly to Reddit now.
Not on NSFW subreddits. Unless this changed recently, you have to upload your image elsewhere and then submit the link to NSFW subs
As best I can tell, Reddit's limitations on posting NSFW with Reddit hosting the image or video are implemented client-side, and unevenly across their first-party clients at that.
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#28Can we please stop using “NSFW” as a euphemism for porn? I feel like I’m going crazy today between this and Reddit. The standard for something to qualify as NSFW is much lower than straight up pornography. It was originally anything you wouldn’t want your boss to see you looking at if he walked up behind you at your cubicle. The use of the term is incredibly vague. If you’re banning porn just say you’re banning porn…
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#29I'm still waiting for the day when people will stop being absurdly neurotic about sexuality and just let people share their stuff as long as it's age flagged appropriately. It's so absurd that the most normal thing on earth is put into the same moderation category as harassment or hate speech.
That’s what happens when you deal with companies from the US.
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#30Imgur will also be deleting images that aren't associated with a user account. https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/14415587638029/
This strikes me as being at least as big a deal as the NSFW bit.
For 10+ years, imgur has been many people's go-to way of hosting an image they want to post to a forum or whatever. Many of those people will have paid little attention to whether or not they were logged into imgur when they posted each image. In short, it sounds like a lot of image links are about to break.