Anyone worried these four DVD ads are too raunchy for work? NWS?
 

Three review links might pose problems for some people at work, esp. those w/nosy co-workers or bosses.


The creme de la creme would be this:


http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/ts1149041695.jpg


Flesh for Olivia

It's about "a woman who works for a pimp named Claudio (Dean Paul) who is a bit of a voyeur with a few pent up issues of his own. He digs on watching his employee do her thing with members of the same gender..."

To the boss it might seem to be this large:


http://www.seductioncinema.com/2006/...for_olivia.jpg



Then we have this little number:

http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B000FDEV2U.jpg

Candy Stripers

It's "about nurses who've been infected by alien phalluses, only to become sex-crazed, sugar-obsessed zombie chicks..."


Full disclosure: Mrs. Pusser was a candy striper back in high school.


Again, it might look like this to the boss:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0...V51622763_.jpg


Last is a nice little violent number. While most cry out about sex more than violence, this has a nice touch of both:


The Hole

http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/ts1147478956.jpg


The theme: "Dong-woo's enough of a mama's boy that he sees no problem in interrupting a session of love making so he can tend to his insomniac mother."


By now you've figured out what it would look like to some at work.


Anyway, do some here feel these are a problem? I don't visit DVD Talk too often at work but I know whenever I do it seems someone walking by my desk has an eye peeled to see what's on my computer. Oi.


Obviously we want Geoff to make money and support our obsession(s).




Edit to add: after I started this thread with three another popped up.



http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B000FBFZ40.jpg


The word "porn" does read well small. I don't want to get the nickname "PORN KING" around the office. Nope. That just won't do. "Hey it's Buford Pusser the PORN KING". I don't think so.


I rented the first four in the series and will check this out. Interesting documents of the 70's. But I probably won't watch it at work. :(


More full disclosure: When I first started posting here I didn't really think about things not be safe for work since I'd never spent any time on a forum before and didn't view the internet at work. But I was schooled in that and maybe I'm a bit oversensitive about stepping over the boundaries now.

Yes, especially the 1st one. But we've been down this road many times before and I respect Geoff's decision on it and just stay off the forum if there's anyone around.

Luckily I've had an office to myself for the past 6 months, and will until August when I should get a new officemate I imagine, so it hasn't been an issue.

That first one did bother me at 8:45 am when I was in Other. I saw it last night and I'm fine with the 10 pm rule or whatever was in place. Sucked that it was there during business hours, though.

That's just for banner ads (or at least was; dunno if that's still the case or not). The images in question are from the DVD review pool, and there isn't that sort of system in place for those. If it's in rotation, it's in rotation.

Should it not be simple to have questionable covers or titles blocked during someones business hours? And by questionable it would seem that titles containing the words such as "Porn" would be an easy choice. And spreadlegged nasty girls would also count.

I saw the "Bad Olivia" one last night and it does give one pause. My first response was to think that I was not in the Forum I thought I was in. :lol:

If the site wants people who are in the workplace to be able to post and see advertisements than some controls are necessary.

I mentioned the Olivia one in another thread......but I don't think my work would care either way.....

The only way would be to have someone evaluate each cover individually (it's not like there's an algorithm called isChickSpreadeagle() that takes in a 98x140 thumbnail and gives it a thumbs-up or not), and even then, there'd still be complaints since what's offensive and what's not is so extremely subjective. Besides, if I were to block things during "business hours", wouldn't I have to get into all sorts of messy time zone code? And then people would gripe that they work unusual shifts and don't want to see 'em...

I really do understand the complaints about the Olivia cover, though.

couldn't the person doing the review decide if it's work-safe or not?

The person doing the review doesn't always have the cover art. (Oftentimes the cover art, keepcase, etc. is shipped separately from the actual DVD.)

To require the reviewer to seek out cover art online, let the reviewer make his or her own determination (which means a lot of stuff could still slip through), for me to write some code to determine when and where to display it...honestly, and I don't want to sound like some sort of dismissive jackass, but it's really just more trouble than it's worth.

The easiest solution would be for people who are consistently bothered by cover art to block images.dvdtalk.com .

My biggest complaint is that Porn King wasn't about me. I need a copy for my own collection...

As far as the covers being offensive, they're tame compared to dozens, if not hundreds, of previous covers in the mainstream pool.

If Amazon Sells It... We'll run it as SFW

I hate to be *that guy* (actually, I love it), but it isn't DVD Talk's responsibility to make sure you you don't get busted looking at potentially offensive content at work. If you are worried about it, don't use the site while you're at work!

Oddly, Amazon doesn't have the cover art posted on their site.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...285950-6700151

I agree it's not work safe, but it doesn't bother me

That is interesting.



The photo doesn't bother me either, something about it is quite inviting.

Aside from the dvd covers, what about dvds that aren't allowed to be sold in the U.S.?

For example, the hole dvd - review:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=21978

links to:

http://www.hkflix.com/xq/asp/filmID....qx/details.htm

Which says :

What about it? DVDTALK is not selling the product, it is reviewing it!! There is quite a bit of difference here (and NO, promoting/reviewing the DVD does not equate selling).

To sum it all up at work you should probably be working (not you Ranger) not worry about the quality of coverworks being channeled through DVDTALK.

Pro-B

After being curious enough about the movie, I was just a bit irritated to find that I can't even buy it.

What is the point of promoting movies here if we can't buy them?

I could be misremembering, but I think the way it works in this case is that HK Flix sends Geoff a list of movies they have available to review, the reviewers send Geoff their requests from that list, and then screener copies are distributed from there. As far as why HK Flix is sending out review copies of movies they can't sell, I really couldn't say. The inability to sell this particular title might have come about after that list was compiled but before the review was posted.

I guess that is understandable. It seems like it is an issue of the film studio deciding not to sell it in the U.S. or something. I can't imagine that it would be about the content.

People said it was DVDTalk's responsibility? I don't think so. I think a concerned member raised an issue, an issue if not resolved in a way they can deal with will decrease their use of DVDTalk and potentially lower DVDT revenue.

So, while it is super that you are here to outline what DVDT's responsibilities are I think Geoff prefers to hear his users concerns than not.

Oh come now. I never said that it was unreasonable that someone raised this concern or that suggestions were made as to how to fix the problem. I'm not here to "outline" what DVDTalk's responsibilites are or what concerns are valid - I just made an observation that I suspect many people would agree with.

You and I have been members of this site for over 5 years and I don't recall ever having any disagreements with you. Have I done something to offend you? Your response in this thread and the espresso machine thread struck me as very condescending and rude. If I've done something to annoy or upset you, please tell me what it is and I will try to fix it.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0...V55539127_.jpg
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=22012

That bug eyed alien looks like he has his naughty bits up against that girls rear. :whofart: Not even art would approve of that.

Well art would approve it the guys were more clearly buggering the alien. So there.

http://www.carloneworld.it/images/4_...mo%20ragno.gif

Ciao,
Pro-B

It's called being Bushdog. ;)