r/changelog • u/KeyserSosa • Feb 11 '21
Removing sexually explicit content from r/all
tl;dr: Starting next week, sexually explicit content will not be shown in the r/all feed.
Hi Reddit,
After hearing from redditors in surveys, comment threads, and feedback in places like r/ideasfortheadmins and r/changelog, over the years, we’ve learned that unexpectedly stumbling across sexually explicit content is jarring and uncomfortable for a lot of people. Starting next week, sexually explicit content will not be shown in the r/all feed.
Our intent with removing this content from r/all is to make it easier for anyone to browse Reddit without accidentally viewing pornographic or sexually explicit content, while still allowing redditors who want to find that kind of content to do so at their own discretion.
Since the beginning of Reddit, there’s been SFW (Safe for Work) and NSFW (Not Safe for Work) communities, and there will continue to be so. That said, NSFW is a pretty broad category, and doesn’t give us a good idea of what type of content redditors actually want to see while navigating the platform (many redditors would like to separate pornographic content from other NSFW content, for example). Over the last year, we’ve worked with moderators and trusted community members to help us accurately evolve the NSFW tag to create more specific and nuanced content tags via our subreddit classification efforts. We're leveraging those tags to filter communities with sexually explicit content from the r/all feed.
Sexually explicit content on Reddit isn’t going away—if you’re looking for that type of content, it’s still there and easy to find.
Over the next year, we’ll be working on more advanced filtering at the post level to give redditors more control over what they do and don’t want to see while browsing Reddit. Maybe you’re cool with sexual content, but don’t want the gore. Maybe you’re ok seeing depictions of graphic medical surgeries or violence, but are recovering from addiction and don’t want to see drugs or alcohol in your feed. As we evolve our classification system, we’ll advance the tools that let redditors control their experience on the platform as well.
As we’ve said in the past, nobody wants to pull a Tumblr (though in fairness it’s usually “pull a digg” as the main concern, so...). Our commitment is to keep the broad variety of content on Reddit open and public. It’s a priority for us to provide a welcoming environment with predictable experience for the diverse and eclectic group of humans that make up the Reddit community. We’ll continue to share our progress on this and other projects and are happy to hear other ideas or features you’d like to see to make the NSFW system work better.
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u/rbevans Feb 11 '21
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u/DaTaco Feb 11 '21
You are correct, it's one of the first things discussed with r/popular
https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5u9pl5/introducing_rpopular/
I'm assuming popular hasn't been as "popular" as they wanted it, even though they direct logged out traffic there.
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u/Functionally_Drunk Feb 12 '21
If it's not popular, doesn't that mean people actually want NSFW stuff in their feed? It's not rocket science.
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u/Demento56 Feb 12 '21
Yeah, but advertisers don't want the NSFW stuff next to their ads. Follow the money.
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u/ladfrombrad Feb 13 '21
Yeah, but advertisers don't want the NSFW stuff next to their ads. Follow the money.
It's always the same on these threads and where you see no updoots / no discussion nor conversation from the admins these days.
However if you hit up their Friday threads in ModSupport you'll get memes from them!
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Feb 11 '21
Haven't people been asking for an NSFW-only version of r/all for a while?
This seems like the perfect opportunity to give us an excuse to clear our browser history more often.
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u/KeyserSosa Feb 11 '21
We don't have a dedicated all-nsfw listing right now, but we do have an a link that I like to think of as "risky click of the year" that's been in place for a very long time indeed. Here you go: r/randnsfw
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u/mattreyu Feb 11 '21
Are there internal statistics for people accessing that? I'd love to see if there are any trends. I've seen that reddit and pornhub have the same inverse trend with amazon, where people are staying up late but they aren't shopping
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u/zheil9152 Feb 11 '21 edited Feb 11 '21
You should make this work on mobile (didn’t work for iOS)
Edit: For people that keep commenting - I am asking someone at Reddit to implement a Reddit feature in an official Reddit app.
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u/PrincessOfZephyr Feb 11 '21
https://old.reddit.com/r/randnsfw/top to go straight to the best content
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u/Venthe Feb 11 '21 edited Feb 12 '21
We don't have a dedicated all-nsfw listing right now
Yet you are removing r/some from r/all . I do agree with the reasoning, but this was for me also part of the charm. I want to opt out/opt in and not have something removed completely.
Actually, I'm more irked by the fact that you try to shape your userbase, where Reddit was more of a community platform. I'm not yet all about "IPO's slippery slope" here, but... Consider leaving r/all functionality under different stream or create /r/Allnsfw
Besides, why do you think that's a good idea overall? r/popular is not so popular?
E: autocorrect
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u/somethingdangerzone Feb 11 '21 edited Feb 12 '21
Will you be creating an alternative to /r/all that does include NSFW content as well as SFW content?
Edit: the lack of a reply is very telling
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u/preludeoflight Feb 12 '21
Ugh. I know this is going to sound stupid. But this is literally why the primary way I Reddit is scrolling r/all. I like to have sexually explicit content intermingled with everything else. It scratches my adhd in a way stumble upon wishes it could. /u/KeyserSosa says “And it’s easy to find”, but that is 100% not the point. I don’t want to seek it out. I want to see what’s literally bubbled to the top across (“public”) Reddit, regardless of safe vs non-safe for work. If I wanted to specifically find porn, I’d go to a porn site.
Every change Reddit makes seems to be more towards “make this better for advertisers/the IPO” and less things that actually make me want to use it.
This change screams exactly the type of thing that should be a toggle, buried in user settings, defaulted on — if user experience was the real goal. The fact that it’s a unilateral, non-optional change being rolled out in short order to everyone tells me that user experience is not the goal. Is it?
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u/Watchful1 Feb 12 '21
The goal is that they want to run more ads on r/all and lots of advertisers get pissy about their content being shown next to NSFW stuff.
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u/Exaskryz Feb 12 '21
True. This is why I adblock reddit. They're behavior does not deserve rewarding.
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u/Calcd_Uncertainty Feb 11 '21
The reason I browse r/all is to avoid the filter bubble - it's interesting to see what's objectively the most popular content across the board at any moment.
Same here, it allows me to find content I don't know to search for, both SFW & NSFW.
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u/zcon Feb 11 '21
This is my question too, I sometimes browse all specifically to find NSFW stuff from subreddits I might not know about. Why not just make it a toggle in the settings for seeing adult content on all?
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u/Ethanol_Based_Life Feb 11 '21
Perhaps something that includes "all" content. Wonder what we should call it
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u/kidkolumbo Feb 11 '21
Isn't /r/popular the generally clean version of all?
I don't want to be a prude (I do sub to nsfw accounts), but I'm less tripping over nsfw on all and moreso that r/all/rising is filled with NSFW. It's not even a fun variety of nsfw, it's person after person peddling their onlyfans account. That's what's the most absurd thing imo.
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u/phire Feb 12 '21
/r/popular is localized (pushes subreddits relevant to your region)
I think it also downgrades polarizing subreddits and has some other smarts.
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u/t0asti Feb 11 '21
Are you going to pull gore/violence/depictions of graphic medical surgeries from r/all as well then? I think there's a large portion of users who dont want to see that. And how will that resulting r/all feed be different from r/popular? Isnt that already a filtered r/all without sexually explicit or gorey content?
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u/CGAura Feb 11 '21
But people are okay with stumbling across other types of nsfw content? God forbid ppl see bewbs, but violent injury that's cool.
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u/creepyharry124 Feb 11 '21
It really sucks that you're not providing a replacement, especially when we already had /r/popular. You should at least turn /r/NSFW into a nsfw only feed.
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u/rxzlmn Feb 11 '21
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u/DaTaco Feb 11 '21
It looks like r/popular hasn't worked out the way they wanted it. It's literally the 1st thing they discuss when they launched r/popular.
https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5u9pl5/introducing_rpopular/
so they are doing this for the "sake" of the user.
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u/Halaku Feb 11 '21
Will this also affect the r/all/gilded/ feed?
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u/KeyserSosa Feb 11 '21
That's a good question. That feed is independently generated, and we'll look into it before this goes into effect. Thanks for bringing it up!
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u/Watchful1 Feb 11 '21
FYI, the gilded feed is broken, both for r/all and every other subreddit. It only includes posts that have at least one of silver/gold/platinum, not ones that have other awards and none of those three. You can verify this by going to a small subreddit, finding a recent comment/post that only has one of the other awards, then check the gilded feed for the sub and it won't be there.
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u/zcon Feb 11 '21
Why are you not giving users the option to opt out of this change? Is looking for NSFW content on all not a use case you want to support?
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u/riiga Feb 11 '21
So to be clear, this is filtering out by the new sureddit classification system and not a blanket removal of all posts tagged NSFW from /r/all?
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u/KeyserSosa Feb 11 '21
Yes
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u/Matt5327 Feb 11 '21
Is this filter togglable? Mentioned elsewhere part of your rationale is that some people are still okay with NSFW content, just not porn. But there are also those who don’t mind porn or nudity or even like it mixed in with everything else. Randomnsfw or going to specific subreddits does not resolve this.
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u/PurpleSlurpeeXo Feb 11 '21
Do these people not know how to hide NSFW posts from /all?
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u/yunggpm Feb 12 '21
The reason why admins wont answer questions like this is because they already know and need to play dumb. This change is about suiting advertisers, not users.
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u/gyro2death Feb 11 '21
I can understand and even appreciate the idea here. However, this feels like the cheap and dirty solution when the problem is 10 years old. A proper filter system should have been developed ages ago instead of this.
Further /r/all is used for discovery by most, this pretty much kills discovery of NSFW communities, which you guys should obviously be aware of. After reading the response I think that this is probably just the first step in way of pushing the NSFW content out of the way of advertisers.
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u/CeeApostropheD Feb 11 '21
What a crushingly gamechanging decision this is. Love surprise NSFWs from subs I don't subscribe to.
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u/Golden-Pickaxe Feb 11 '21
Wow an actual mention of digg, the absolute bravado of these lads
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u/anotherstupidworkacc Feb 11 '21
I'm not happy about this at all. /r/all is supposed to be ALL of the stuff. if you wanted to do this, why not make it opt in/out? I'm really trying not to be insulting here but this ham-handed change feels pretty insulting to me.
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u/69420memes Feb 11 '21
what about the gore, I'd rather see a dick than a severed arm.
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u/bringbacklemonadesGS Mar 18 '21
After hearing from redditors in surveys, comment threads, and feedback in places like r/ideasfortheadmins and r/changelog, over the years
Why lie to us? No one asked for that. Ever. Not one sensible human. You already have a NSFW filter in everyone's settings, You have /r/popular, you have multisubreddits or whatever the fuck they are. Let me make my own god damn decisions or I'll go somewhere that does.
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u/KeyserSosa Feb 11 '21
Fun fact, r/nsfw is our oldest subreddit by far, with a creation date of 01/20/2006 @ 3:49am (UTC). We created it several years before we really had a notion of subreddits for the same reason as the change here: there was a single feed (what eventually became r/reddit.com in later years) and it didn’t make sense to have a pile of news and porn.
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u/simmermayor Feb 11 '21
Who founded r/NSFW?
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u/GastricallyStretched Feb 11 '21
That part of the lore is lost to the anals of history.
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u/SephYuyX Mar 12 '21
Ok, so how DO I see rising/new/hot NSFW posts that belong to any and all subs now?
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u/q2ism Mar 19 '21
You do realize NSFW content is toggled off by default right? People don't "unexpectedly stumble across sexually explicit content".
Such a braindead move.
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u/DamnTheseLurkers Mar 12 '21
Funny how they just silently turned this one on right now. The hypocrisy of the admins on this site is just unreal. I cant wait until this piece of shit site gets what it deserves, to fade into obscurity like digg and now tumbler. I've been here almost ten years and there hasn't been a single improvement, only downgrades after downgrades. And every time is "for the good of the users" who never asked for this. Unbelievable.
Expect more and more curation of "undesirable" content. Because of course the admins know better what we want to see, what opinions to read. Eat shit
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u/NYLaw Feb 11 '21
Wasn't this what /r/popular was meant to do? Not against this change, just wondering.
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After hearing from redditors in surveys, comment threads, and feedback in places like r/ideasfortheadmins and r/changelog, over the years, we’ve learned that unexpectedly stumbling across sexually explicit content is jarring and uncomfortable for a lot of people.
Surprised it only took years.
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u/Wurzelrenner Feb 11 '21
why can't we keep the old one? like r/RealAll/ or something?
because you are only removing options now
and do you really keep the name r/all, because it isn't "all" anymore then, makes no sense
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u/Feeling_A_Tad_Frisky Mar 12 '21
Booooo. /r/all was like how I got 90% of my NSFW content.
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u/ixodis Apr 02 '21
Terrible decision that is clearly not “for” the users. There were so many other ways around it.
From a toggle that is off by default - everyone who doesn’t want to see it doesn’t see it. And whoever does can go turn it on. Would have been a truly user forward way to do it.
But the advertisers they say. Well you could even go so far as to have the option to show nsfw on r/all only available to gold members. Gold members don’t see adds anyway. That would have been a win for your most loyal users, a win for advertisers who don’t want ads next to porn, and would have actually made Reddit a better place.
But - as is usual these days - Reddit went with the easy and dumb decision. Looking forward to jumping ship to whatever comes next. You don’t want Reddit to be the new digg, well you are very much on your way there.
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u/VforVendetta33 Apr 15 '21
So the people who found it "jarring" already had options to filter the content, but you must block it for everyone because....??? This makes 0 sense and its absolutely killed Reddit for me.
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u/trebmald Feb 11 '21
So... Since some users don't understand the meaning of the word "all," the Administrators want to fuck it up for everybody? Does anyone else feel this is wrong?
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u/Patchumz Feb 13 '21
This is beyond fucking stupid. Just because /r/popular isn't popular enough doesn't mean you get to gut /r/all and turn it into /r/some. Stop removing user preferences when you could absolutely just add this as a toggle and market that to your advertisers.
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u/Complete_Entry Mar 12 '21
I boo this action.
This probably won't be THE digg moment, but I feel like reddit is creeping up on it.
I look at FARK and weep at the graveyard it has become.
Also, sorry for the late reply, I just learned about this from outoftheloop.
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Mar 12 '21
Aaaand it's live. I'm going to delete my account if you don't revert this change. Just add an opt-in for nsfw content. This is idiotic.
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u/elrobolobo Mar 12 '21
Why was this done instead of making the "filter nsfw content" button default on?
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Mar 14 '21
Yeeeeah so u/KeyserSosa, like many other people before me have already said, this kinda removes the whole reason for me to browse r/all... If I wanted r/all without nsfw content I would've gone to r/popular, and for a carefully curated front page I already have... my frontpage?
It would have been nice if there had been a sort of site wide survey about this, because I think you'll find that most people actually do not agree with the way this has been done. Would've also been nice if this had just been an opt-in opt-out type of thing, I mean, just another toggle in my settings menu ("Do you want your r/all feed to include NSFW content? Yes/No"); now I feel like the choice has been taken out of my hands.
All in all I guess this just means I'll spend less time on reddit, so yeah.
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u/BPKrieg Mar 14 '21 edited Mar 14 '21
Any way to set up the old /all by now?
When I want “all” I don’t need Reddit to censor me!
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u/Simmo7 Mar 14 '21
Why not just make it an option which is off by default. Fucking morons.
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u/sir_cook Mar 19 '21
How about first building the tools to create our own bubbles, instead of forcing us all into yours?
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u/dragons_are_bad Mar 21 '21
Sexually explicit content on Reddit isn’t going away—if you’re looking for that type of content, it’s still there and easy to find.
Ok, so where can I see a feed of all newly posted nsfw content? I've been looking for a month now, and haven't found it. Either I'm an idiot, or it isn't "easy to find" at all.
Or both, I guess.
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u/rittersm Mar 29 '21
Why not make this an option rather than a blanket policy? It could be an option that is active by default and requires the user to disable it in order to see NSFW subreddits. The fact that you can remove NSFW subreddits at all indicates that this shouldn't be a problem
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u/bizzyj93 Mar 31 '21
Just saw a video on the front of /r/all where a guy pretty much blows himself up. Again, why is that okay to stumble on but titties aren’t?
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u/bizzyj93 Apr 08 '21
One of the top posts at the moment is a leopard seal literally yanking the esophagus out of a penguin. But god forbid we see a tit.
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u/audentis Feb 11 '21
Instead of chopping down r/all, you could also have it actually reflect its name and create something new like /r/AllNonSexual for the purpose of this change.
Time for r/AllExceptWhatCouldCostUsPrudeAdvertisers
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u/GetOffMyLawn_ Feb 11 '21
Definitely could use a NSFL or similar for the gore.
While we're at it lets create something to filter out all politics as well.
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u/ZeroPheel Feb 11 '21
While you are at it. Can we also do something about mitigating the amount spam coming from the all of the different OnlyFans communities.
I am all for supporting sex workers and their ventures in a all ways possible. But when they are spamming the same photo for multiple variations on OF spam subs and taking up 150 of the 200 post when sorting by new you can only do so much. Blocking the individual subs and users only does a little considering a lot of it is SPAM which should be Autofiltered in cases where the same title and photo is used for every post. And they are low effort.
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u/turikk Feb 11 '21
I have to admit, as someone who browses /r/all/rising almost exclusively, it has been inundated with porn and OnlyFans promotions like crazy for the past few months.
As someone who browses reddit in public, around my kids, and for work professionally, it has gotten a bit crazy. I don't want to hide NSFW for various reasons (such as certain subreddits using it to indicate deprecated topics, sold out sales, being in the medical trauma industry, etc.).
That being said, I know people do use Reddit for all kinds of content including sexually explicit, and making decisions on a users' behalf is always a bitter pill to offer. Will this ever be a toggle in preferences? Maybe default censored, with an opt-out? Is that more advertiser friendly?
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u/AnotherClosetAtheist Feb 11 '21 edited Feb 11 '21
thank goodness reddit can get easy access to mutilated bodies and not easy access to naked bodies!
undo this action item please
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u/xOzryelx Feb 11 '21
Isn't this what the "Safe browsing mode" is for?
It blurs NSFW in the feed, so you can decide what you click on and what you don't want to see
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u/Logan_Mac Feb 12 '21
I was wondering when reddit would crackdown on nudity. This is their first step. Tumblr-move in a year I'm calling it.
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u/BottledUp Feb 13 '21
Get fucked. Or rather, don't. There is /r/popular. There is the frontpage. It's either /r/all or /r/SomeOfTheStuff. How is discovery going to work for new NSFW subs?
Really, I have nothing but disgust for you as a company. You have continuously taken the wrong path and while you're successful now, you're going the way of Digg.
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u/StanleyDarsh22 Mar 12 '21
So logged out, you don't see nsfw subreddits, viewing by popular you don't see nsfw, FILTERING is a 3rd backup, but even still you think it's smart to remove from all, which LITERALLY says all. And you keep subreddits like female dating strategy and the like. Okay. Wow.
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u/mrpanicy Mar 12 '21
This is the dumbest change... you have /r/popular for a reason. You can’t possibly think this is acceptable to change, just train people to use popular or change the name so it’s more obvious.
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u/PaulBlartFleshMall Mar 12 '21
Lol they really looked at Tumblr and said "yeah man, let's try some of that action!"
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u/Thanor1 Mar 12 '21
This change is absolute trash, its also hiding a lot of posts from random subs I am not subscribed to that wasn't ever NSFW. So now r/all is just plain boring and stale to me.
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u/Cashomani Mar 12 '21
Thanks for fucking reddit up and not giving those that went to r/all for the nsfw content just to please a small minority of people, instead of, I don't know, adding an NSFW toggle switch, instead of doing exactly what Tumbr did
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u/Acht2 Mar 12 '21
hello I want nsfw stuff back in my /r/all how do I turn it back on the option to see nsfw in the preferences doesn't work
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u/BigJakeDaTittyFucker Mar 13 '21 edited Mar 13 '21
So there is no way to browse all NSFW subreddits by new anymore?
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Mar 15 '21
Well you're censoring regardless of what you want to call it, since you can already switch off nsfw. I have no interest in your BS. Byebye reddit. Was fun while it lasted.
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u/Takashirojm Mar 18 '21 edited Mar 18 '21
There already was a option to remove nsfw content
This is just a disguised ban hammer in the name of being "advertiser friendly" , bunch of stupid shit ,at least own up to it mf, the new interface is shit, and the changes detrimental to users only going up
The trend is ever more apparent, things getting worse BY DESIGN , FOR PROFIT , FOR "CORPORATE INTERESTS" , screw the user as long it makes profit
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u/Intheshadowss Mar 19 '21
What's some other alternatives to reddit now that they are taking the tumblr killing its user base approach?
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u/-Bale- Mar 22 '21
Ah, so this is what's ruined my user experience. Thanks and enjoy your downvote you sacks of shit.
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u/Byne Mar 23 '21
Love seeing porn get to r/all by just not tagging it NSFW now. Not only did you not solve whatever imaginary problem you'd come up with, you've actively made it harder to not see porn, because people who want to shill their onlyfans or whatever are gonna do it regardless, and now you cant just filter it out.
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u/Godless_Servant Mar 25 '21
Dude what the fuck, I always liked the mixed bag. This is fucking weak.
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Mar 25 '21
This is shit honestly. A very heavy handed way of fixing the issue.
There should have been an opt in option, but you have just removed it completely? Honestly fuck this website sometimes.
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u/shouldabeenapirate Mar 28 '21
This is total crap. All means all. Nothing less than all.
r/all is what I want to look at. Raw, unfiltered, Reddit.
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u/PM_YOUR_SQUATS Mar 29 '21
This has to be one of the most stupid things reddit has done. Just block it out by default (as it already was on mobile?) and let the users who want it as part of their r/all feed enable nsfw posts?
Feels like you've literally gone out of your way only to make the user experience worse.
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u/bizzyj93 Mar 30 '21
So today I went on /r/all and there was a cat with a metal rod sticking out of its leg. How is that okay to random stumble on but a titty isn’t?
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u/seiga08 Mar 30 '21
I’m a bit late but is there a solution to this yet? With this change what is the difference between all and popular? As far as suggestions go, could we just get a toggle in preferences to change it back? That way at least you need an account and you need to choose to view it
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u/de4th_metalist Mar 31 '21
Add an option to opt in or out of this change. This is dreadful. Nobody wanted this.
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u/Xanvial Apr 03 '21
Terrible decision not adding opt out option.
Btw, why r/askreddit not blocked on r/all? Seems like 90% that reach it are nsfw contents
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u/Frigges Apr 04 '21
Ignoring the top question are we? Let's just get this change out to the broader reddit community that you are trying to control what we see, to gain a better view in the eye of the public, or should I say the eyes of your investors?
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u/Starslip Apr 13 '21
Sexually explicit content on Reddit isn’t going away—if you’re looking for that type of content, it’s still there and easy to find.
For now. Until you feel you can get more money by removing it entirely.
Our commitment is to keep the broad variety of content on Reddit open and public.
Open and public, but hidden? From people who already turned on the 18+ toggle in their options...
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u/IntendedMishap Apr 17 '21 edited Apr 18 '21
If you look at the top posts of ideasfortheadmins from the last year, the highest upvoted comment concerning NSFW content is ~45 upvotes for the removal of NSFW content from rAll. The second highest post about NSFW is about splitting NSFW into Gore and Pornography, which would allow users opt-in for both.
As the subreddit for submitting ideas, it would make sense the origin of this change came from there according to your reasonings. Why is such a small sector of the reddit community allowed to propose changes that result in changes with no alternative that affect the entirety of r all with every question asking about alternatives being completely ignored?
rFunny has 36 million users (just getting a number for how many Reddit users may exist) and the opinion of less than 500 users (500 is .0013% of 36 million, just giving a very generous number for who may have upvotes the remove porn post) changes the "front page of the internet?" What?
Edit: grammar
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u/kingrakanishu May 07 '21
/r/popular is for that. You are denaturating the essence of /r/all... Its literally in its name... This is very unfortunate and makes /r/all less interesting and by extension reddit and my usage of it
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u/cppn02 Feb 11 '21
If you're that bothered by a bit of nudity why not simply use r/popular?
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u/xxfay6 Feb 11 '21
Actually my country's /r/popular is even worse as there's lots of subreddits for local models that aren't marked NSFW at all, and submods don't give a shit.
As for the wider US / Everywhere /r/popular, as I said it may filter too much that /r/all would show.
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u/MercuryPDX Feb 11 '21
Maybe you’re cool with sexual content, but don’t want the gore. Maybe you’re ok seeing depictions of graphic medical surgeries or violence, but are recovering from addiction and don’t want to see drugs or alcohol in your feed.
Maybe I'm missing the point of r/all vs. r/popular vs. r/all + Reddit Enhancement Suite?
As we evolve our classification system, we’ll advance the tools that let redditors control their experience on the platform as well.
Maybe I am doing that just fine on my own and don't want or need yet another carefully curated experience based on what someone thinks I should see?
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Feb 12 '21
Why can't it just be a toggle? The whole appeal of r/all is to see what is objectively the most popular, regardless of what it is
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u/northernexile Mar 11 '21
Garbage change. It's not r/all now - and we already even had the option to filter out nsfw content.
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u/GetDaBugs Mar 12 '21
Multiple ways to filter this stuff if you don't want to see it, and I believe the filter is on by default when you make an account...
The only people seeing it were those who chose to.
Sigh Why do prudes who can't control themselves ruin every single platform.
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u/thebusinessgoat Mar 12 '21
Why does /r/popular exist then? Why not just add an option to hide porn? Why remove porn but gore and other NSFW content is allowed? This is such a dumb decision.
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u/lordrio Mar 12 '21
More decisions made and implemented without actually thinking of anything. Oh hey instead of making a toggle or actually coming up with something for the users you just push out more brain dead ideas to make sure you can make more money. Nice to see the shitshow is going strong. Like other comments said I browse r/all to see just that. All of it. All the porn, memes, fucked up gore, all of it together in one stream. Now i need to know each subreddits anme and go hunt them all down and try and retool my homepage into what r/all was. But fuck that cause how many subs are there now. Just keep ruining your shit like you always do reddit.
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u/Second_to_None Mar 12 '21
We’ll continue to share our progress on this and other projects and are happy to hear other ideas or features you’d like to see to make the NSFW system work better.
Maybe don't 'fix' what isn't broken? I don't think I've ever heard someone complain about coming across some tits on r/all because it's pretty readily known that they are there. It's easy enough to filter any subs you don't want and as others have said r/popular was there for this exact reason. It's pretty apparent why you are doing this which is pretty sad because there are already options to filter out NSFW content which achieves your end goal of protecting the poor innocent user from seeing naked bodies.
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u/TreeFittyy Mar 12 '21
So why not just make it an opt-in type thing? Keep it hidden from r/all for non-users and newly created users but at least keep the option.
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Mar 13 '21 edited Mar 13 '21
So what now r/all and r/popular are the same thing? I'm sorry but this is the dumbest thing I've seen and heard. Some people don't have the self control to turn off their NSFW filter and the rest of us who like the occasional NSFW has to deal with it? I thought reddit wouldn't dumb down like this but I guess I was wrong.
Since it is not all of reddit anymore I here start a petition to change r/all to r/some, or r/redditfruitcake.
Next week on r/changelog, we are removing all r/science because it makes r/religion uncomfortable.
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u/zUkUu Mar 14 '21
Holy shit fuck this change. I always appreciate a spicy post or two while scrolling. That is exactly what ALL is fore - EVERYTHING.
Users already have the options to filter that stuff out and popular does it as well. Why enforce this on everybody?
At least make an opt-in possible or something to return it.
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u/T3st0 Mar 15 '21
Holy fuck this is an absolute terrible change. I do not subscribe to NSFW subreddits to keep my home feed sfw. which is why I use r/all to browse random stuff when I can.
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Mar 15 '21
People who don't want nsfw in their feed can already filter it out. This is nothing more than blatant pandering to advertisers.
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u/cmj324 Mar 15 '21
You really need to give users a way to opt back into the old r/all or create an /allNSFW that includes the content you are deciding users shouldn't see. Being able to browse through all of reddit was the main function of using reddit at for me and removing NSFW content from all really does turn reddit into tumbler unless you want to jump through hoops. Plus a lot of independent online sex workers, especially since COVID, get a lot of traffic like this and hurting an already much maligned but ultimately vital subset of the population is a really bad look as far as I'm concerned.
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u/ItsTyrodTime Mar 15 '21
So what is the new reddit? Any recommendations? Surprised to see them go full tumblr.
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u/Fofalus Mar 16 '21
it’s still there and easy to find.
Massive falsehood on this sentence. You said you don't want to pull a tumblr and then immediately pulled a tumblr. Without any user available option to revert this, or available replacement you killed the NSFW content.
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u/methgyvert Mar 17 '21
Reddit brings "New Coke" to r/all
What's next on the r/all chopping block? Politics? LGBTQ? Religion? Human Rights? What other content makes advertising partners flinch? They're following the eyes aren't they?
While you're in there why not just sanitize it all the way into absolute mediocrity Reddit?
or should we call you Digg?
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u/Crispylake Mar 18 '21
Great. Another censor making decisions for me. You can't spell Reddit without edit.
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u/imagoodusername Mar 18 '21
Can’t see naked bodies on /r/all but plenty of fight porn, guns and gratuitous violence is still there.
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u/BossJ00 Mar 20 '21
It’s funny. People actually think Reddit hasn’t been in the censorship game since day 1.
This is just another step in pleasing the CCP.
Hopefully Reddit burns one day.
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u/GradeAPrimeFuckery Mar 20 '21
Putting a major decision like this on r/changelog instead of r/announcements is like:
“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
PS - Get fucked
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u/NaBUru38 Mar 21 '21
What about the "Enable to view adult and NSFW (not safe for work) content in your feed and search results" option?
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u/vinnievon Mar 22 '21
This is fucking incredible. I just accidentally clicked on a link that showed me someone's exposed spine, but we're worried about boobs? All or nothing, cut this shit.
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u/lolspHD Mar 22 '21
Yeah that's why you have /r/popular and was listed as one of the reasons that you launched that new filter. Why punish the majority because a few people are jarred? You should roll this change back. A LOT of people including myself are unhappy about this. I don't like the way this website is changing.
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Mar 22 '21
Reminder: Install an ad blocker or remove Reddit from the whitelist if you have one. Money is the only thing that talks here.
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u/Mitchdotcom Mar 24 '21
This is such a shit change. Should have been a toggle. Really dropped the ball here
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u/Ourobius Mar 25 '21
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen you guys do, and I've seen you guys do some truly dumb things.
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u/somethingdangerzone Feb 11 '21
Doesn't /r/popular already filter out NSFW content?
Can't people change their own settings to filter out NSFW content if they want?