What's to be done?  It seems like the Y!360 pages are quickly growing full of unfiltered adult content material. 

This stuff is hard to filter and easy to abuse. (Ever try searching for an image based on its attributes? Not easy!) Ever see the abuse at Zoto photo sharing? (Got so bad I stopped using links to my Zoto page.) How do you detect adult content in an IMAGE? How do you manage to filter text content and avoid throwing out the good content while tossing the bad? And then manage this task in almost-real-time? How do you make the filtering system scale?

So... what to do? Require a Yahoo login to view any 360 page and  assume ALL 360 content exists behind the 18-year age firewall? (That's the one that exists now and is based on the birthdate provided to Yahoo when the account was created.) 

The Flickr solution?

Flickr uses an algorithm that's closely (but not exclusively) tied to the "May Offend" link accompanying each photo. If that link is clicked X times, and the photo has Y and Z attributes, then the photo is removed from public viewing.  Sure spam and porn sneaks in, but it doesn't last for long -- minutes, hours at most, instead of the days and weeks we see on Y! 360 pages.

I'm sure the 360 team is working on it, but a solution is needed soon! 

Maybe this guy has some idea how this will all play out?