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NSFW (Not Safe For Work), a universal sign that something is objectionable or inappropriate or offensive online, is now going to become a part of many web developer's standard coding techniques. The idea is to put the rel="nsfw" attribute in link (a href) tags, much like the currently widely used rel="nofollow" attribute. This NSFW attribute will denote objectionable content that might get you in trouble with your big-brother-IT department. There is even a greasemonkey script for Firefox to block links that have the NSFW specification in the page's code. It is a smart idea, and may help computer users everywhere avoid NSFW content a bit more easily. However, I wonder if we still click on NSFW links, knowing that the link is not acceptable because of our insatiable curiosity, but I will leave that up to the statistician, Gallup pollers, and techie-shrinks for now. via Slashdot
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Subscribe to commentsChristopher FinkeDec 31st 2006 5:54PM
There is also a "NSFW" Firefox extension (that I wrote): http://www.efinke.com/nsfw/ that allows you to customize how NSFW links are styled. It's more a proof-of-concept than anything else, but if rel="nsfw" comes into wide usage, it could be handy to have your browser do something special with those links, whether that be hide them completely or make them big and bold so you can find them more easily :-).
jpbDec 31st 2006 5:53PM
The big problem I see with the nsfw thing is that trolls aren't going to tag their links.
David FowlerDec 31st 2006 10:18PM
This is a good idea. Why not extend it to email as well? Not just the links in an email. Put the NSFW in the header so the mail client knows that that message is not G rated.
I bet the NSFW tag would increase the clicks. LOL. Especialy if the rendering included clues like Red coloring for the link.
alanJan 1st 2007 10:14PM
it would be nice to have yet another obvious thing to tells us to be careful. please. if you put a "caution, wet floor" sign up, people will run by it while looking at it. so, if you put up a nsfw tag, people will just click because that's what people do best: they totally ignore all the warnings simply because they're too curious for their own good.
i give it five minutes before a pr0n site uses nsfw tags to increase it's traffic by advertising that it is nsfw.