Hi all. I was excited when I saw a new Dead by Daylight community was created and I’ve been trying to post daily to get it going. Its not my community, but I would love to have a thriving Dead by Daylight community on the Fediverse.
Some Dead by Daylight game content can be mature in theme, and I marked some posts as NSFW because I thought they might be a bit borderline, but I also noticed those posts I did mark as NSFW saw almost no interaction. Not even from the community owner. I suspect the issue is the NSFW flag and I second guessed and removed it, but I wanted to hear perspectives from others on that. Is violent game content worth marking NSFW? Should I just wait and see if anybody is bothered? Does marking things NSFW limit their growth a great deal?
OP has the issue that people are not seeing NSFW posts as most users block NSFW
Piefed allows to distinguish between NSFW and “gore/gross”
At this stage, there are three options
So are you proposing that OP marks such posts as NSFL instead? Do posts marked as NSFL get more engagement than posts marked NSFW? You could be correct, but I don’t think that it’s obvious from your comment how your suggestion solves the issue.
Right, I think the NSFL tag indicates something more extreme than NSFW, so if someone is blocking the latter, they’re most likely blocking the former.
That’s what I thought too, but I could be wrong.
I don’t think you’re wrong and feel that your comments have been entirely reasonable and appropriate to the topic at hand.
I’ve seen people ok with gore but not porn
Those people are weird, and unless the NSFW and NSFL tags can both be applied to the same post at the same time, this solution ignores the significant overlap that can happen between them (i.e., a lot of NSFL is also NSFW and vice-versa). I still think that the vast majority of people who filter out NSFW will also filter out NSFL.
Thanks, good to know that they can both be applied and that “NSFL” is labeled as gore/gross.
I still don’t think that doing this would really address the OP’s issue because the other thing to consider is that even though this tag option is available in Piefed, I expect that it would have absolutely no effect on Lemmy instances, which are the majority of the Threadiverse.
It’s not the first time a similar issue is raised, which is why Piefed implemented that feature.
Same for crossposts comments consolidation, user and posts flairs, keyword filters…
Those issues get raised regularly, the current solution is to use Piefed to solve them.
Cool, thanks. I hope that Lemmy eventually implements that tag too and makes it interoperable with the Piefed one, because as it is currently, this solution would only be a solution for users seeing the post from Piefed itself and wouldn’t address the majority of users.
There’s only one way to find out, and that’s by giving NSFL a try
Fair enough, but it would make sense to include a “this may or may not help” when suggesting something that requires setting up a new account like this would.
I thought that “might consider” conveyed the same idea
I can’t speak for anyone else, but to me that seemed to imply that you were suggesting it as a solution that might be worth trying, not as something worth trying that might be a solution. Language is tricky.
It’s Friday evening on my side, I’m not going to get into a semantics debate about a two sentences comment.
Hopefully this can still be useful to OP, and the later comments will clarify.
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