On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 12:46:45PM -0300, Gez wrote:
El lun, 05-10-2015 a las 05:55 -0600, Brynn escribió:
If it's supposed to cover the images, maybe the words "family -friendly" should appear somewhere, as well as some sort of idea what it means. I understand that "family-friendly" has slightly different meanings between the east and the western parts of the world, especially regarding images or art.
I think "family-friendly" is a too loose concept, making it difficult to determine what falls inside and outside of the category. For instance, graphic violence is not "family-friendly" at all if you ask me. However, the depition of graphic violence in all kinds of media seems to be fine for everyone, unless it's too gory. Hypersexualization of female models isn't too family-friendly either, but it's pervasive in the fantasy and gaming imagery. Again, most of the people seem to be ok with that too.
I think that introducing the term "family-friendly" opens doors to different interpretations, and it might create controversies that aren't easy to solve, as different people will have different views on what is and what is not family-friendly.
Good point about the ambiguity of language. On the other hand, I think this topic is something that has to be kept to a generalized level, else it'll get to crazy levels of detail.
Back in our early pre-Inkscape days, one thing users liked to draw in Sodipodi were flags of their home country or state. I bundled these together and encouraged more submissions. Inevitably someone sent a NAZI flag... well this is considered offensive most places in the world, but in particular it's an illegal image in Germany. Soon to find out the Taiwanese flag is offensive/illegal in China. The Confederate battle flag is not illegal but certainly offensive to some. Later we started collecting icons and symbols, to learn that display of human body parts is considered offensive in Islam. People sent in trademarked logos, copyrighted Disney characters, and so on and so forth.
It's hard to know where to draw lines with this sort of stuff, what to allow, what to reject. You won't be able to predict ahead of time every possible category of offense that people will come up with.
I think the best that can realistically be stated in the CoC is that ultimately moderators will be using their common sense judgment on what is allowable on our websites, and reserve the right to remove anything that they feel do not fit the Inkscape project's values.
"Pornographic" is a more straight-forward concept, and pornographic images are clearly not "family-friendly". Everyone will agree with that.
I think that Krzysztof's revision of the CoC is just fine. It's not redundant, it's clear and very easy to read and understand.
Agreed. At the last board meeting we decided to circulate it through several of us for final copy edits. I'm hoping we can help it get to a final state by the next meeting at the beginning of next month.
Bryce