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Imgur Is No Longer Classifying Memes With Adult Humor As Mature (theverge.com) 22

Imgur announced changes to its content moderation policies, no longer classifying memes with adult humor as mature. Going forward, only memes with sexualized or lewd content will receive the mature tag. The Verge reports: Imgur is making the changes after it collected feedback about its content moderation over the course of this year, including that its policies, "especially surrounding mature content, feel inconsistently applied, too subjective, or just rather confusing as a whole," according to a post from Imgur product manager Martyn O'Neill. Now, mature content consists "solely of sexualized or 'lewd'" content.

Following the adjustments, O'Neill says that "warnings / post removals" are down nearly 35 percent month over month. Far fewer posts are being marked as mature as well; that stat has declined by almost 50 percent.

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Imgur Is No Longer Classifying Memes With Adult Humor As Mature

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  • Especially down here in the Southern U.S.
  • by quonset ( 4839537 ) on Saturday October 12, 2024 @06:15AM (#64858853)

    With all their [imgur.com] postings [imgur.com], the mods probably threw in the towel.

  • ... but "mature" never really applied to this stuff anyway.
  • who cares? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by hjf ( 703092 )

    Who cares at this point? I've been an imgur user since the beginning. but in the past few years it has become a platform for the "radicalized left" to post cringy memes. Calls for eating the rich, kill all CEOs, fuck trump, etc. It's a democrat group jerk at this point. I don't care for american politics. I just want to see funy memes 50% of everything posted to imgur nowadays are screenshots of twitter with political messages.

    • Don't forget outrageous antisemitism. Starting years ago anything remotely Jewish got flooded with people "criticising Israel". And of course the whole website's been proven to be rigged and controlled by the staff multiple times.

      • by hjf ( 703092 )

        have you seen it lately? I had a guy doing mental gymnastics to defend Iran. basically saying "well, yes, they're a theocracy, but they're not forcing it upon people outside their borders".

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