Nabble being blocked at work (high school) due to adult content on What's Cool

[drinaldi]

I teach high school social studies and was delighted when I discovered Nabble.  I used it, with administrator approval, for several classes and multiple projects.  I even taught some other teachers how to use it.  When I recently went to set up some new forums, I found the site blocked and when I inquired as to why, I was told it was due to adult content.  My question is this, "Is there any way Nabble can filter content on that "What's Cool" section so folks like me don't get fired?" My IT folks will allow access once I've set a forum up, so all's not lost, but it would be far more convenient to have access at work.  Thanks much.

[Peter <Nabble>]

We are working on ways to identify adult content automatically. This is not an easy task and sometimes things pass when they shouldn't.
You can see here that sometimes Google makes mistakes: http://www.abhishekrungta.com/google-still-shows-you-porn-links-for-simple-queries/168/
Does Google get blocked? :-)

[drinaldi]

Thank you for the reply.  Ironically, my response to the admin was almost identical to yours.  We are allowed to use wordpress, blogger, wikispaces, etc., and I'm sure there's some "inappropriate" content hosted on those platforms too.  No reaction from IT when I pointed that out.

I appreciate the difficulty in solving the problem, and for now, the work-around of setting up at home and getting forum by forum approval will work, but I know many folks won't use Nabble if they have to jump through that hoop.  Thanks for all the work you do.  It's great.