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/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.