You are receiving this email because you are either the sender or the recipient of postcard DE-7511890. This postcard’s image was removed from your galleries.
The reason for this might have been one of the following:
The postcard had the address side showing.
The image did not correspond to the actual exchanged postcard.
The postcard was too explicit for the website. As we explain in our Community Guidelines, Postcrossing aims to be a family-friendly website, and we have to bear in mind the children that participate in the project.
The copyright owner of the image filed a complaint about its usage.
I was reading this thread in the anticipation to see the not-so-family-friendly man-in-speedo I am not dissatisfied, and the removed postcard in my opinion has quite distinct Tom-of-Finland fully clothed males pornography vibe
I can understand why admin deleted your received card.
Do you remember that in 2019 the singer Jason Derulo was pissed at Instagram because they removed their picture. Instagram said it showed aroused genitalia.
Sadly, I don’t think we’re going to reach a definitive conclusion here — the issue has very much to do with one’s perception of what is acceptable or family friendly, which is deeply personal.
At Postcrossing, we try to keep an open mind but have a few red flags for full frontal nudity, porn, or aroused genitals, among other stuff. Basically, if it’s not appropriate for daytime TV, then it’s probably not ok to show here.
It’s fine that members exchange these postcards between themselves (if they’re adults and interested in the topic), but these images don’t need to be posted on the website. This is the kind of thing that is most likely to get us in trouble with advertisers, and we depend on them to run the website.
A content filter or NSFW switch is an interesting idea… but at the moment I’m afraid this is not a high priority on our to-do list. I hope you understand.
I think the image is not necessarily needed for discussion.
It definitely was not just a man in a speedo, or how I thought it would be I had such a laugh attack about it yesterday because I first looked it’s a boxing glove thinking it was an image from Postcrossing team, that they punched the image away and only then saw it’s was what you wrote, and something extra really was happening there.
But yes, for example I think a normal fully nude is ok, but not that speedo-man.
I would put the images elsewhere, maybe link there, and warning.
I don’t think no one want to intentionally surprise anyone with such photo, even if everyone were adults.
While I don’t think nude photos are necessarily NSFW or not okay for kids to see, I think this is a good idea. Also for otherwise graphic pictures like blood or violence.
We have so many different cultures that what is okay for me might not be okay for someone else.
But it should be up to the one who doesn’t want to see to “click” the box and for the card sender or receiver to click that their card might be sensitive.
Ok… Let’s take a timeout here, cool down a little bit, and tomorrow we’ll deal with the flags and try to stir this conversation in a friendlier and more productive direction. Hope that’s ok!
So having reviewed this new string of posts on this topic, we’ve decided to remove them. Yesterday’s posts started off on the wrong foot, and there’s no point in keeping these around.
Coming to the forum to discuss an idea, share concerns or give constructive feedback is welcome and healthy… but not coming here to call the team or everyone who doesn’t see the world a certain way “cowards”, “not decent”, “perverts” or worse. Like the Forum Guidelines say, “Be agreeable even when you disagree”.
Creating a NSFW filter and moderating millions of images is not the kind of task that can be done with a few lines of code. Even if such a filter was implemented, those that want to go around it would surely be able to, as we don’t have a way to confirm someone’s age beyond their word. Besides, an unwanted side effect from these filters is that people would likely start posting more daring or risky content, having the opposite effect… so these things need to be very carefully brainstormed and executed. We would like to get to this one day, but at the moment this is not high priority.
The thing is, if the pointed out image that restarted this conversation had been brought to our attention, we would have agreed and removed the image (which we have now done), as it features full-frontal nudity despite not being in a pornographic context. For reference, our red lines are here.
I do have a postcard bought at the Munch museum (the photo is taken by Munch in 1907) of a nude woman. I would not consider this as “porn”, but others might.
I would send this to anyone interested in such a postcard and upload it (sent in an envelope). If the receiver choose to delete this, it would be ok with me.
I bought a card I thought is showing alphabets, but at home I saw the alphabets are formed by two people presenting some positions it’s only silhouettes of persons and I thought of this thread then. I think a child only thinks the persons are like that, and not more to it, and to know what happens, it’s not bad as it’s not photos or even realistic persons.
But, I will consider very long before sending this. I will upload it, like normally, as it just looks like alphabet. (So it’s not 18+ but still not something I would send to a child.)
I had such a laugh attack about it yesterday because I first looked it’s a boxing glove 
it’s only silhouettes of persons and I thought of this thread then. I think a child only thinks the persons are like that, and not more to it, and to know what happens, it’s not bad as it’s not photos or even realistic persons.