Topic on Talk:Personal image filter

As the technical side seems to have been carefully considered, a few UI comments only:

1. As "allowed" is green, so make "denied" a light red. More visually intuitive.
2. The message "changed" could be ambiguous. It might be better to explicitly state "(was allowed | was denied)"
3. (also ) "Hide content" would be better as "Content options". The term "Hide content" may convey an expectation or impression that more hiding options exist than is the case (text? specific images?) or that censorship is now endorsed, and comes across a bit badly too. Retitling as "Content options" does not suggest censorship nor does it imply a wider level of control that we really offer. "Options" is a very widely understood term.
4. (also ) Not very useful. The initial text one hovers over says that this image can be hidden (or content options exist). It doesn't help to list the categories this image is in, as a hover item. If they proceed it will be displayed anyway. A better use for hover would be a short explanation - "Click here to show or hide this image and others like it."
5. (also ) This style is very unnecessarily confusing. The real issue is that some filters are listed separately, as "additional filters" (additional? User confusion!). It needs to be simple to the point of cluelessness as its target is people who may have no computer knowledge at all. In all other screens, the list of categories is not broken up. It would be better if not broken up here, either. A better layout would be a list of categories (as before) plus a textual note "This image can be blocked by denying any of these categories: <list>"

Last, one aspect not considered. Images that are not in a content filter category, but should be. Perhaps all images should have a small icon in the form of a hanging or side tab that, when hovered, states something like this:

"Content filter / WIKI_NAME can be set to hide certain kinds of content. To view applicable categories and report that this image belongs in one of them or is wrongly categorized, click here [Dialog appears where user can enter a reason and click 'report' or 'cancel']. To set your content filter options click here."

Also the popups for content that is already filtered should make it easy for a user to report mis-categorization. FT2 03:02, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

This post was posted by Krinkle, but signed as FT2.

If there is a message string like that in the system, it has failed imo. It should say things like "WIKI_NAME can hide categories of images you do not wish to see. To hide this image and others like it, click here". And on clicking, you would have the option to add categories to the image as well if it hasn't been categorized yet.

I see no compelling technical reason to do this with a limited artificial category-set; this should be addressed. Notsuohs 03:07, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

This post was posted by Krinkle, but signed as Notsuohs.

Regarding colours green/red in (1) above, it strikes me that this is a cultural choice rather than an "intuitive" one.

Tony Wills 10:20, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

This post was posted by Krinkle, but signed as Tony Wills.

Also, user must have the possibility to turn off the filtering UI elements shown with images. Consider that user doesn't want to hide any image; then the elements pairing any images are excessive and possibly irritating. So there should be an option in "Display Settings" etc, like "Turn Off Filtering UI with Individual Images".