Content is hard to create and yet content is what makes your website visit and drive traffic. That’s why even a small website often has a group of people behind it, ensuring smooth operation and a constant stream of content. But there are other ways websites can access content visitors want to see: user-generated content.
Allowing user-submitted posts on your website is one and creating an online forum is another, while WordPress’ own comments function is a third way that user-generated content gets to your website, and that only scratches the surface. What about your visitors? upload content you don’t approve of? Your website is at your own risk and if you don’t want NSFW content on your website, you have to find ways to filter it. That is the subject of this tutorial. But before we show you how to set a filter for NSFW content, we would like to discuss what this expression means. Here is what we want to talk about:
NSFW stands for “Not Safe for Business”. Of course, the exact terms vary from workplace to workplace, as expected, and are not even limited to business – abbreviation typically refers to graphic internet content for personal viewing.
This broad definition may include text, image or video content that is unsuitable for the workplace for a variety of reasons, such as nudity, violence or blood. For the purposes of this training, We will take NSFW content as erotic imagesWhether it’s photos or graphics, it’s the type of inappropriate content that will most likely be uploaded and shared due to its ubiquity and popularity.
You’ve built a website and created a community that engages with your website and generates interest and traffic to it. Why should you care if they’re posting some NSFW content every now and then? Well, there are actually a few reasons, but they are divided into two:
First, depending on the jurisdiction, freely posting certain content may not only be inappropriate in the workplace – may be illegaland a website owner or operator may be responsible. You should always be in control of what is going on on your website. While sharing NSFW content is not generally illegal, most jurisdictions prohibit sharing content with children and minors.
Latter, can be offensive for some visitors. If your website and community isn’t specifically built to share what we call NSFW content, you may find that you lose traffic due to the childish behavior of a minority of your visitors. In particular, if you are trying to create a family-friendly environment, you need to have a mechanism to control the content of that environment. Otherwise, you run the risk of running into trouble with angry parents who, for example, might use parental controls to block your website, even if its primary purpose is not to share NSFW content.
If you want to filter your user-uploaded content, you will need some help. Fortunately, the team behind ModerateContent.com can help. They run a commercial service that uses AI to filter sensitive content.
They have developed a plugin to integrate their service with WordPress (currently out of date, but not outdated). The plugin is called Image (NSFW) and you need to install and enable it to start filtering NSFW content. The plugin uses ModerateContent’s free API to filter out inappropriate content.
After doing that, you need to configure your plugin. You can access the plugin’s settings panel by going to NSFW Image/Settings.
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Then you will have enabled the settings panel. Here you will find the free API key already entered and you can test the plugin to see if it works by clicking. Scale button.
The following options allow the plugin to automatically filter every uploaded image. Enable Debug Logging lets you see the plugin’s logs in detail, Activate Action Remove allows the plugin to automatically remove an offending image, Enable Action Email allows you to notify an administrator when an inappropriate image is detected, Warn When Image while the control manages the extent to which the plugin responds to the image, Manual Review Level Allows you to control the rating at which your admins should review an image.
In the next section, you need to make the plugin work for each of the events where an image can be uploaded. These triggers are all set to: True by default it means the plugin will always react. If for some reason you want to enable free sharing of NSFW content in certain contexts, you can enable it. Once you are satisfied with your settings, click Save Changes.
Once the plugin starts filtering your users’ images, you’ll be able to find them by going to: Image (NSFW)/Images.
As a result
As you can see, there are many reasons and at least one easy way to filter all NSFW content (or at least image content) from your website. One thing to remember though is that AI is (until now) no substitute for manual review of data, and you can eventually block allowed content. Another thing to consider is that visitors will appreciate knowing the rules in advance: after all, the fair is fair. Therefore, we recommend that you let them know that their posts will be subject to automatic filtering. Still, even if you don’t want to go against the law or get angry easily, now you know how.
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