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Poll: Would you be part of "What is NSFW" poll?

1 points by kodisha ↗ HN
Few days ago there was post on HN titled "Is Tumblr a bot fest". In that discussion i left a comment with stats for my Tumblr blog[1], and someone replied "Just for other's reference the tumblr mentioned is NSFW"[2].

That got me thinking, and I am restless since then. Just to make things clear, I was not offended in any way, it just got me thinking, what exactly is NSFW?

My blog is 99% dress up gils with occasional naked breasts, and yet someone might opened that and lost his job because of this. Also in that same week that dictator form that country got killed, millions of people watched that horrible video, and i'm 99% sure that no jobs were lost over that.

So what I had in mind is to create poll where I would post bunch of pictures, carefully chosen, and people would vote on how they perceive those images (SFW or NSFW)

I was also planning to ask/geoIP resolve country of voters, so we can have results broken by country/continent.

But before I go into this, I would like to ask would you find results of this poll interesting, and would you be part of it?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3143973

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3144208

5 comments

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unfortunate
So we're taking a poll to take a poll?

That's almost as good as our change management system, we have to fill in a form to request a form to request a change number to request a form to request a change

kodisha
That would be external page, hosted on my web server, because i would need to code all this.

If you think about it, it's not easiest task to complete, given the complexity I had in mind.

mooism2
You don't need to write the code to do the geoip lookup until after you've collected enough data to analyse. If hardly anyone fills out the poll, you don't need to write the code.
kodisha
geo ip resolution is the easiest part of it, i would store country only because I don't want to store users IPs.

"Hard" part that I'm referring to is creation of visualization, choosing the right images [e.g naked woman from renascence painting, naked man from modern magazine] and putting it all together.

I was thinking something more "visualcomplexity.com / flowingdata.com" scale, and less "hotornot" script.