cabennett85/gittest — Issue #1542: visually separate mature content from standard content in site logo/headers
Author: cabennett85
Created: 2012-03-02 00:53:54+00:00
State: open

By allowing mature content to show just the same as non-mature content, we are diluting the EP brand and appearing to condone content we prefer to only tolerate. This is a visual distinction of the logo and perhaps site branding that when on a mature content page, makes it clear that EP. It comes from Moritz's thoughts, below:

Let's be more clear to our users about how we're categorizing our data[[BR]]Here, I'm mainly just thinking about adult-non-adult classification. Why not make the distinction much more transparent for the user? I.e., have all adultcontent look different -- a slightly different header that says "adult EP" somewhere big or something. I think this would make it feel like a much cleaner property. [[BR]][[BR]]If we're on the way to becoming the definitive, mainstream encyclopedia of experiences, we have to be much clearer about what we think is adult and what's not. If new users stumble on something really strange & adult, it scares them away... A dialogue that says "this content is mature click OK to see it" doesn't make it clear enough that this content is not supposed to be part of our mainstream property, but if the page actually looks different, they can distinguish between the mainstream EP and the adult underbelly of EP.[[BR]][[BR]]I just think we should be as transparent as possible about how we're classifying our data. We're already doing this behind the scenes -- partitioning our data and trying to keep adult separate from non-adult and trying to make sure adult content won't bubble up somewhere unwanted. It doesn't always work, though, and having EP and adult EP feel more separate could help. when users browsing EP find adult content, they would go "ahhhh!! gross!!!", but maybe they would also know "this is not supposed to be here w/o the big adult heading, let me send this to adult ep by flagging it" instead of running away scared.