Comment 7 for bug 1582885

@edgarswooth I believe in newer versions of variety Peter has mentioned he's removing the ability to rate images: http://peterlevi.com/variety/news

Basically as I understand it he's proposing reducing the number of wallpaper sources to more reputable sites like Unsplash - making "safe mode" unnecessary/redundant.

Personally myself I'd rather not see a reduction in the number of wallpaper sources. But at the same time, I share the same concerns that the OP does about inappropriate imagery popping up especially on work computers.

My "solution" to the issue is to run variety on my home PC and mark images as favourites. Then on my work PC I simply copy over my favourites and only rotate through those (I don't download any new wallpapers at work) That way I've personally vetted each and every wallpaper showing up on my work PC. Its an imperfect solution but it works for me.

I would still like the ability to mark wallpapers as safe vs unsafe OR perhaps use something like https://github.com/yahoo/open_nsfw.

It seems like you should be able to build a database of "safe" vs unsafe imagery relatively easily. Meaning you start with some core "safe" imagery that's been pre-vetted, then you let users score images, once a particular image achieves a certain threshold of approvals its deemed "safe". Over time it should be possible to "build" a library of safe images.

That said I'm probably oversimplifying things greatly :) If it was so simple I'm sure Peter would have implemented it already.

I believe there were also concerns about copyright infringement and downloading imagery from un-vetted sources so there's that angle as well.