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by lwf 1862 days ago
Should probably have a NSFW warning -- the "offensive" tweets I was randomly shown were porn.

Granted, I have the Twitter "adult content" filter off, so perhaps that's just on me. Was just a bit surprising :)

2 comments

Hacker News, unlike reddit does not have a NSFW warning for submissions.

Additionally, I would say it's reasonable to assume that something that says it is an "offensive tweet quiz" is a quiz that shows offensive tweets, and that therefore any offensive tweet is by definition not suitable for work.

One could argue and say that Twitter should identify and filter out some types of offensive tweets so that, for example, porn is not shown - but that would be explicitly addressing the subject of the submission rather cleverly.

Twitter does in fact have a separate adult content filter, which I have turned off in my Twitter account, in part because it's often wrong :) It filters out a lot of SFW content, and a lot of queer accounts are tagged as such incorrectly.

Proves the submission's point, I guess.

Were the images loading by default for you? I intended to set it up so that the images showed up as links for you to click if you wanted to or not - and there is a warning above the quiz about clicking the links. Although, granted, I could have been more explicit in the warning about what the images might contain.
> The pictures in the tweets show up as links by default. Follow these links at your own peril.

Ah, I totally missed that! I'm admittedly a bit tired, and that line was above the first set of boxes, where nothing loaded -- I scrolled down to the "Competing" side. This appears to have been a bug, because when I refreshed the first set of boxes had content in them.

Maybe it'd be nice to make it more prominent, set off in bold text somewhere, and mentioned before both quizzes?

(to be clear: I wasn't personally bothered by it, nor was I in an environment where it was problematic)