Poll for a SFW version of Purpleport

If it's a case of being able to send link to a portfolio to people outside of PP or to show friends etc, perhaps an answer is to have a portfolio also somewhere like Instagram where they don't allow full nudity etc and link that? Or have a sfw portfolio in the form of a website (wix and Adobe are easy to use)

Holly Alexander said

No because you can already amend your filters for that.

You could create your own portfolio hosting / networking website which can cater for SFW only if you have the time and resources if it's a passion of yours :)

Thank you for the tip and yes I certainly would consider it an option :-)

Sensual Art said

To anyone replying "no", you're missing the point: the OP is asking how much support there would be for it, not how much opposition to it.

I believe the question arose because of a conversation she had with a friend who is not a member on here, so the perspective is more about how the site is seen by casual visitors.

Yes Sensual Art is quite right. I told a friend I was on Purpleport and she checked out the website. Her initial impressions weren't favourable and she told me so. To the purpleport community it may be another day at the office, but to visitors who are not used to artistic nudes and nudes not so artistic, it can be quiet a shock.

The Portrait Cowboy said

I told you the other day you could disable adult and NSFW content when you were talking about your 'best photographer' ranking system.

There is zero point in having a separate website when you can customise your own user experience here.

I use the filter all the time because my cookies are deleted on browser exit, it defaults to SFW only. I have to turn NSFW on to view some of my own images which may be close to NSFW. I'm not sure if my friend turned the NSFW filter on to view that content because visitors by default get the SFW content only, unless something was miscategorised ;-)

I can't see there being much uptake. If the idea is to share pics with others who 'might draw the wrong conclusions" you might be better off setting up your own modelling website - it's not hard to do. I wouldn't waste your time though unless you just want to share with friends - anyone who works in the business is unlikely to be fazed by content here.

All you have to do is turn off NSFW and Adult in your filter settings, not sure what else you want.  It's a very different experience. What's missing in your opinion? or is it a reputation thing because you would rather not be associated with somewhere that has "nakeed ladeeze" 

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What hasn't been mentioned is whether an SFW version would influence the type of people joining and hence behaviours on the site? It isn't just about hiding images, methinks? 

Sensual Art said

To anyone replying "no", you're missing the point: the OP is asking how much support there would be for it, not how much opposition to it.

I believe the question arose because of a conversation she had with a friend who is not a member on here, so the perspective is more about how the site is seen by casual visitors.

Ah - the PurplePorn issue? 

Allesandro B said

All you have to do is turn off NSFW and Adult in your filter settings, not sure what else you want.  It's a very different experience. What's missing in your opinion? or is it a reputation thing because you would rather not be associated with somewhere that has "nakeed ladeeze" 

Please read my earlier reply.  Saying "All you have to do" is entirely disingenuous.

Gothic Image said

What hasn't been mentioned is whether an SFW version would influence the type of people joining and hence behaviours on the site? It isn't just about hiding images, methinks? 

Good point.  I'd not considered that.

Gothic Image said

Sensual Art said

To anyone replying "no", you're missing the point: the OP is asking how much support there would be for it, not how much opposition to it.

I believe the question arose because of a conversation she had with a friend who is not a member on here, so the perspective is more about how the site is seen by casual visitors.

Ah - the PurplePorn issue? 

Pretty much.

Gothic Image said

What hasn't been mentioned is whether an SFW version would influence the type of people joining and hence behaviours on the site? It isn't just about hiding images, methinks? 

This doesn’t make sense to me, to be honest. Anyone can shoot SFW (Safe for Work) images now—the entire site demographic can choose to focus on them. They don’t because, A: models typically get paid more for nudity, and B: many photographers prefer to shoot nude images, as it aligns with their creative interests. Models naturally gravitate toward higher-paying jobs, and photographers shoot what inspires them, which often includes nudity.

What you're essentially proposing is a single-genre version of the site, which, to be honest, would need to be restricted to headshots or text-only content to be fully safe for any workplace, otherwise your basically asking to make a version that is (Instagram) but Instagram already exists this is PP, its its own thing,

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tandi said

I use the filter all the time because my cookies are deleted on browser exit, it defaults to SFW only. I have to turn NSFW on to view some of my own images which may be close to NSFW. I'm not sure if my friend turned the NSFW filter on to view that content because visitors by default get the SFW content only, unless something was miscategorised ;-)

What you think 'may be close to NSFW' would be, to others, NSFW. It's why the tag exists. Users are typically trusted to categorise their own content but for images that are either accidentally miscategorised, or intentionally miscategorised (they do not believe the content to be NSFW) there's a "report" button for the average user, and admin can (and do) intervene and change an image's status manually. Furthermore, I think users who continuously miscategorise their content can lose their ability to tag something SFW. So all in all, PP is pretty well policed in terms of making sure things don't slip through the net.

Sensual Art said

To anyone replying "no", you're missing the point: the OP is asking how much support there would be for it, not how much opposition to it.

I believe the question arose because of a conversation she had with a friend who is not a member on here, so the perspective is more about how the site is seen by casual visitors.

 
Opposition to the idea is just as important as support for the proposed concept. For instance, you wouldn't start a poll and only give people the option of voting yes if your intention was judge by ratio or percentage the number of people who were in favour of an idea. To me, I'd rather know that 10% of people liked the idea and 90% of people didn't out of 100 voters than just knowing 10 people liked the idea without any further context.

From previous tandi posts, it seems as though they're exploring the viability of starting their own version of purple port that was purely SFW. This is almost entirely conjecture, but that's the read I have on the situation at the moment. It doesn't really matter either way, but that's the vibe I'm getting. And if that's the case, then sure - they can have at it, but I wouldn't be interested in joining such a website and having yet another platform I had to commit time and effort to in order to try and be noticed for my photography.

The people replying 'no' aren't "missing the point", as you put it - they're simply adding what they perceive to be relevant input to the conversation in order to build contextual feedback.

tandi said

I told a friend I was on Purpleport and she checked out the website. Her initial impressions weren't favourable and she told me so.

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I'm not sure if my friend turned the NSFW filter on to view that content because visitors by default get the SFW content only, unless something was miscategorised ;-)

I don't know how much use would be made of it, but might there be a solution to your problem in an extension to the existing URL filter?  I can share my portfolio here with any of these URLs:

• https://purpleport.com/portfolio/sensualart/
• https://purpleport.com/portfolio/sensualart/?filter=nsfw
• https://purpleport.com/portfolio/sensualart/?filter=adult

The difference will be seen if you open them in a private window (or a browser where you've not visited PP before, or have perhaps deleted cookies).

The problem I believe you're describing is that a casual visitor can easily change the filters such that they can see all the NSFW/Adult content, and that being able to prevent that would make it safer for you to share your portfolio with "muggles".  I wonder whether a new filter option on that URL could solve it?

(Insert sarcastic reply about analysis paralysis here).

Sensual Art said

Allesandro B said

All you have to do is turn off NSFW and Adult in your filter settings, not sure what else you want.  It's a very different experience. What's missing in your opinion? or is it a reputation thing because you would rather not be associated with somewhere that has "nakeed ladeeze" 

Please read my earlier reply.  Saying "All you have to do" is entirely disingenuous.

I'd rather not and no it isn't.  

Generally, I would prefer it, if such platform would exist and function well, as I have no interest shooting anything beyond SFW swimwear, but mostly fashion and dance.

Sana 🖤 all it needs is someone to create one :)

Sana 🖤 said

Generally, I would prefer it, if such platform would exist and function well, as I have no interest shooting anything beyond SFW swimwear, but mostly fashion and dance.

in most work places Swimwear is (not) SFW, especially for a male, a man sitting at work looking at images of girls in swimwear may get him in big trouble or fired.  therein lies the problem, there is no SFW boundary that fits all :-) better to have the option to turn of all those images when you need to but again even doing that is not 100% accurate.

The best option is - if your at work and should be working, don't sit on a website looking at pictures :-D even Instagram get the odd NSFW images, Twitter is full of them and don't get me started on google, the entire internet could be classed as adult and NSFW so how can we expect more from this tiny site managed by only a few its a little unreasonable tbh imo

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