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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

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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]

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

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.

Yaw, Disney is safer for work, but still isn't what you want on your screen when your boss/coworker walks by.

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.

You should redirect them to amazon using your affiliate link and hope.

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.

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?

perhaps redirect to a google search for disney. That way, there is a slight joke, but we still get our google fix.

disney.com made me laugh :)

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.

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.

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

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

I like the idea, only problem is keeping it clean and simple... maybe version 2.0 will have this :)

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).

bookmarklet was added today.

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!

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)

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? :)

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.

Great idea ELI... I like the 'rating' system... clever.

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