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RE: Porn on Steemit - How I Am Approaching It
A lot of the discussion in the comments seems to focus on porn, but what is your take on fine art nudes and the like? I'm a photographer who does fine art nudes and (for lack of a better term) "regular" photography. I may on occasion post some nudes and other times not.
Also, I've noticed that photo posts sometimes pop up with a generic thumbnail of a flying saucer, but there seems to be no rhyme or reason for when it does and doesn't appear. This thumbnail would be good for any nude photos, but I can't figure out how to control when it does and doesn't get used. Any ideas?
(I'm fairly new to Steemit, so any advice would be appreciated).
I upvoted @katecloud's post on body painting. Artistic nude expression, especially like her work, is stunning. I am referring more to the daily posts by NSFW porn accounts that I thought would mix in with all the other posts. After learning how I didn't understand what was going on, I decided to make a new post reflecting my new views: https://steemit.com/mybad/@derekareith/porn-on-steemit-my-updated-view
As far as getting your pics sorted properly in your posts, I'm probably not the best person to ask. I use the editor and use the add image button as I make my post. I haven't had any issues so far, but I have seen some people struggle with their thumbnails and their pictures showing up as UFO's. @missjessica had it happen once, but she re-uploaded the pic and it worked fine. Check out http://www.steemit.chat and ask around as I'm sure someone's got the answers if you can't find them by searching.
Happy to follow, by the way.
PS - I'm assuming Dark Star is a Grateful Dead reference and as a lifelong Phish fan, you know I loves me some Dead. :)
Darkstar -- Definitely a Grateful Dead reference, but it's this strange word that has popped up in numerous places for me. I finally got the idea that the universe was throwing me a hint, so I adopted it as a name for myself and my endeavors.
The editor... I'm guessing you mean the built-in editor when you hit the "Submit a Story" link at the top? You know, it's funny... I use that and I've seen other people talk about the Add An Image button, but it doesn't show up for me. I have to use a URL for the image to get photos to embed in a post. I'm guessing this might be a browser issue? I'm using Firefox.
Ah, I'm glad to see you are just talking the real deal porn. I can still see why artistic nudes should be hidden for work purposes, though. I might have to experiment a little. I used to have posts on another blog auto-post to Facebook, and I would use a 1x1 pixel image in posts first so Facebook would pick that up as the thumbnail (so the post looked like it had no thumbnail) and title it with NSFW, to warn people what the content was. That worked great for Facebook, so maybe a similar approach would be good here.
I use Chrome as well as Brave, which I highly recommend checking out. Here's how it looks in editor for me:
This site is so new, it's going to be an ongoing learning process for all of us. Each day I'm learning so much, and I still feel like a total newb sometimes.
In the end, we'll make this platform the best it can possibly be and this is why I am glad to have conversations like in this post to help ensure I am not hurting the site with my actions.
Oh wow.... you know what? I have that too, except mine by default comes up with the Markdown setup. I didn't even notice the Editor switchover link until I looked at your screenshot and compared it to my setup. Now I feel like a doof... lol!
Oh well, at least I learned something new today. XD