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Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by grexican on Monday May 04, 2009 @03:00PM (#592842)
Looking for thoughts, feedback, rants, raves. The site is essentially a safe way to share not safe content. With URL shorteners becoming popular it's hard to know if what you're clicking on is safe to visit (especially at work).

isNSFW.com aims to fix that.

Cheers -eli

Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by cedsav on Monday May 04, 2009 @03:35PM (#592901)
err.. the "I'm at work" button should not redirect you to Disney.com. try Google instead. Otherwise, great idea.

[added link: http://isnsfw.com/yLyQTM]

Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by grexican on Monday May 04, 2009 @03:45PM (#592920)
really? people seemed to LOVE the disney.com redirect. They found it quite amusing :) It originally went to google though, like you suggested. We'll see how things test out and it might very well make it back to google.

Thanks for the feedback -eli

Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by mattmaroon on Monday May 04, 2009 @04:55PM (#593055)
You should redirect them to amazon using your affiliate link and hope.
Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by biohacker42 on Monday May 04, 2009 @03:49PM (#592929)
The redirect to Disney is definitely clever and funny. But I have to agree with cedsav, the joke will go from cute to annoying pretty fast, google is better.
Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by webwright on Monday May 04, 2009 @03:50PM (#592932)
Yaw, Disney is safer for work, but still isn't what you want on your screen when your boss/coworker walks by.
Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by cedsav on Monday May 04, 2009 @05:11PM (#593082)
I see how it can be funny, but the Disney homepage has some music playing, which kinda gives away that you're not doing anything work-related.
Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by maximilian on Monday May 04, 2009 @05:19PM (#593101)
perhaps redirect to a google search for disney. That way, there is a slight joke, but we still get our google fix.
Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by tracy on Monday May 04, 2009 @05:11PM (#593086)
Define "people". How many, how diverse? Are these 'people' in your target audience? Can you extrapolate the opinion of those 'people' to hundreds of thousands of other people?
Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by jpd on Monday May 04, 2009 @04:07PM (#592967)
It would make more sense if the button was labeled, "I can't; I'm under 18!" I can't imagine many working people would be thrilled at the latest Pinnochio news.
Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by dunk010 on Monday May 04, 2009 @05:21PM (#593106)
disney.com made me laugh :)
Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by harpastum on Monday May 04, 2009 @04:00PM (#592952)
Why not just return the visitor to the previous page (if it exists)? If it doesn't exist, Google seems to be the best bet.
Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by Sidnicious on Monday May 04, 2009 @07:26PM (#593298)
I have a better idea (from a usability standpoint): Remove the "I'm at work" button entirely. It serves no purpose (other than being cute the first time it's clicked) so it will never be used. If I'm at work, I'll just close the page or go back.
Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by ks on Monday May 04, 2009 @03:38PM (#592908)
I like your idea.

Perhaps you should make the rating optional? If you want people to use this, you should make the number of steps required to a minimum

Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by bigsassy on Monday May 04, 2009 @03:35PM (#592902)
This is a great idea. I really hope that this becomes ubiquitous with posting NSFW links.

It would be nice if you could affix multiple content descriptors, much like how the ESRB handles their rating system. See below for a reference:

http://www.esrb.org/ratings/ratings_guide.jsp

Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by techraven on Monday May 04, 2009 @03:49PM (#592928)
I like the idea, only problem is keeping it clean and simple... maybe version 2.0 will have this :)
Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by jemmons on Monday May 04, 2009 @09:25PM (#593411)
How about a bookmarklet to drag into my bookmarks bar? I know it doesn't seem like much, but constantly copying and pasting URLs into shortening services is an inconvenience (and is seriously low-hanging fruit).
Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by grexican on Monday June 08, 2009 @11:43PM (#648490)
bookmarklet was added today.
Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by dandelany on Tuesday May 05, 2009 @05:24AM (#593857)
Just something little: Since you've got such a nice URL, you might make the NSFW-ness a little more obvious by generating links with NSFW capitalized (ie. http://isNSFW.com/XsYK8G rather than http://isnsfw.com/XsYK8G). isnsfw isn't as immediately parsable. Otherwise, very well done!
Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by cedsav on Monday May 04, 2009 @03:39PM (#592910)
a couple wording suggestions:

"Offensive Material: Link contains offensive content such as references to religion, abortion, 911, and the devil."

"Link MAY contain", and 911 should be 9/11 (unless you're referring to the US emergency number)

Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by paulgb on Monday May 04, 2009 @08:55PM (#593392)
I like the idea of a url shortener indicating the content. My real pet peeve is tinyurls to PDF files though. isPDF.com appears to be available, any takers? :)
Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by aplusbi on Monday May 04, 2009 @07:26PM (#593297)
Suggestion: being able to select more than one rating. A link may have gore and nudity, it would be helpful if you can easily specify both.
Re:IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For ... by keltecp11 on Monday May 04, 2009 @03:11PM (#592864)
Great idea ELI... I like the 'rating' system... clever.