Nsfw tag

Every time I enter a condo I see porn be it anime or furry. My idea is an optional NSFW tag people can put on their condos.

There’ll be parental controls eventually.

They exist but they don’t do much.

A disable canvases option is planned, so they will be more useful.

I like the idea. Condo owners would be able to warn people that their condo DOES contain sensitive content that may be unsafe for children BEFORE they join the condo.

Only problem with that idea is people. A lot of people would put on the NSFW tag even if they didn’t have any of “THAT” content. Making it more difficult for people to actually wonder if it DOES or DOES NOT have that stuff in it.

When Steam Workshop comes out, they could make it so players can add their own tags to other people’s condos. So if there’s a condo with 50 votes or whatever and two people randomly marked it as NSFW, it wouldnt really hold any ground.

The main issue is that people can change their condo very quickly to make it NSFW or back again.

Our parental control plans are to inform that there are canvases in the condo and they can either trust the condo and load them, or hide them.

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Yeah, but a trust-based tag system is still better than nothing, and could co-exist with the option to disable canvases (isn’t that a thing already?).

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the bad thing about disabling canvis’ is that some peoples houses DEPEND on them. they build their houses outa them.

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That’s the tough part, there’s really no win/win in this scenario

That was what I was thinking.

An important suggestion and fundamental to parental controls.

Canvases are half the problem. You are forgetting media screens.

There should be a parental controls filter that doesn’t return NSFW condos in the list (either a setting in the permissions or filtering out “18+” “NSFW” etc out).

There could also be a check if someone tries to join a condo via steam chat (“join game”). The person hosting the condo’s server would send back a message similar to banned, but noting it is adult content and currently blocked based on parental controls.

Will it be perfect? No. But those who have common sense and decency will mark their condos properly. It is better than a free for all guessing game for young or sensitive players

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