Content Creation NSFW Content in Your Community

[Nomad]

Do you allow NSFW content? Why do you allow NSFW content? In case you are against NSFW content, what are your reasons? Well, I do not allow NSFW content in my community. I like to build and run family friendly community which is save even for under age people. Even though my community does not cater to people under 15 years of age, I want the content that is perfectly safe for people under 15. I also run Google Adsense and one of the criteria for Adsense is your content needs to be family friendly.

 

[Tracy]

It's a quick way to get your site into some ban lists that will keep it from being accessed by certain businesses that use a filtering process.
I know when I was running my pipe site (since sold) it was blocked at two of the local medical clinics since it dealt with tobacco.

 

[Darth Cognus]

I hold nothing against it but I would never let it towards a community with an underage appeal or explicitly underage area either, and in the past have told off the appropriate people for not following this practice. A roleplaying forum I vaguely watch gets around the adsense issue by simply not using adsense in the areas where that is a factor. I don't know how well it works out for them.

 

[Shortie]

I have in the past had NSFW areas on forums that I owned and worked on but knowing that it can land you with issues such as being blocked and in some cases, can give you a bad reputation, I don't tend to offer these areas anymore on my forum.

I still see some places that allow NSFW areas but it's not as common as it used to be years ago.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I don't mind having a NSFW section on my forums. Though usually I like to hide the section from normal members since I know not everyone wants to talk about NSFW topics. I usually have a separate usergroup that can gain access to the hidden board.

 

[Tracy]

I usually have a separate usergroup that can gain access to the hidden board.

With XenForo 1.x (and I'm sure it is the same in 2.x) you could create a custom user field in which the user can select whether they want to see NSFW or not (no add-ons needed). If that custom field was set to yes, they would be placed in a secondary user group that had access to the NSFW areas. It was one of the easier things to do with XF.

 

[Nomad]

I have in the past had NSFW areas on forums that I owned and worked on but knowing that it can land you with issues such as being blocked and in some cases, can give you a bad reputation, I don't tend to offer these areas anymore on my forum.

I still see some places that allow NSFW areas but it's not as common as it used to be years ago.

Unless your niche is NSFW, I do not think it is good to allow NSFW content in your community. I do not feel safe to use community where they allow NSFW content. If you want to use it, I think you better hide the section from normal users

 

[Kyng]

In general, no. My 'Jokes' section is a bit less stringent about this, but I don't have an NSFW section - and nor would I want one.

The thing is, everyone has their own kinds of NSFW content that they enjoy - and in order to effectively run an NSFW section, I would need to have a stomach of steel that can handle everyone's preferred types. But I know I don't have that: I had an NSFW section on my Discord channel for two days, and I absolutely hated it.

Of course, I could get other staff members to run it - but, I'd still have to cover for them in the NSFW section when they aren't available, and settle any disputes between them and the members over NSFW content - and that's not something I'm willing to do. And if I abdicate those responsibilities (and have nothing to do with the NSFW section whatsoever) - then at that point, it'd be better off somewhere else.

 

[Nomad]

I have been a member on a couple of communities where the admin allowed NSFW content. I believe the admin's intention was to provide a place where users could talk about issues that they want to be publicly hidden, instead, the users started talking "po*n"