memes

NSFW has typically been used for things that are visually disturbing, like gore and sexually explicit materials. Using it for ideas that aren't safe for work feels like it would devalue the tag.

Would it be safe to look at, at work?

My rule of tumb: if someone is walking by would they stop and backtrack and go "WTF are you looking at at work?!" if no then it's not NSFW. If it's just text it's not NSFW. ASCII art not withstanding.

The internet is NSFW. Tags can't fix stupid.

Text is never going to need the tag. To the contrary, if you're at work reading text posts, and it's tagged NSFW, it draws the eye more.

Tagging text posts would defeat the entire purpose of the tag in its useful purpose.

Drug use isn't NSFW anyway, not in images or text.

No, depictions of drug use aren't nsfw. And if we start censoring it, why not also start censoring other relatively harmless concepts like depictions of weapons or cursewords? We don't want this, and trying to enforce it would add additional, unnecessary work to both you and the admins.

I appreciate the many voices here. It seems like consensus is that the tag is not needed as a general rule. I want to be clear, also, that the NSFW tag is not censorship, but also doesn't seem necessary either. Thank you guys for chiming in!

I think that would be a bit much.

I suspect that this may be partially a result of a recent post of mine that some may considered to be in bad taste. So this response is likely to be a bit biased.

For what it is worth, I considered tagging mine as NSFW but ultimately decided it was not necessary. I thought the image was very clearly a staged representation of drug use. Similar to how the Eric Andre meme is clearly a staged representation of murder. Further, there was no blood nor any indication of physical injury and I liked it to an image of somebody smoking pot or drinking to excess.

Do I think drug use alone require a NSFW tag? No.

Should drug coupled with blood, gore, physical injury, exploitation, etc? Possibly.

are we talking a joint? if so then it should apply to alcohol and cigarrettes. I can understand for injections. some folks are neddlephobes.

Well mate this tag is more useful to me around kids than in the office. Perhaps because I'm 100% wfh.

Anyways, I appreciate it also with gore images like certain Ukraine and Gaza pictures. So it's not just about work for me and others.

Now if we had a mandatory tag like this for politics I'd do the big brains meme and be soooo happy.

If you can't show the list to your boss then it should be marked nsfw

Maybe we need a new tag:
ANFW absolutely necessary for work

I think for issues like this it may be good to develop a practice of using the spoiler tag with a warning attached. This way it's up to the reader to decide if they want to read it and is flexible enough to cover all of the various use cases.

When in doubt, use NSFW. I don't feel good when people make memes about crack or users because it directly affects me. I stopped following a community because of that. Thanks for asking anyway.

If it’s particularly gory maybe?? I don’t think so in general.

Isn’t NSFW for gore/erotica.

While I personally have no issue with it being not censored, I could see it being difficult for people struggling with any sort of addiction or dependency issues. I understand not all of them are addicting chemically, but some get hooked mentally as well.

If you do drugs I would say that alcohol must be too, why one and not the other?

I think it would be safer to have an NSFW tag, especially considering the different ways people use drugs and the various effects of it.