At risk of starting another heated debate.. you have essentially made the google search for matrix room discovery which is overall a fantastic thing for the community as a whole.

I still don’t see why there shouldn’t be an equivalent of “safe search” that turns off nsfw/nsfl/extreme content. Users can still turn safe search off to see whatever they want.. but default behavior probably shouldn’t promote nsfw/nsfl/extreme content

Tagging is hard. Ran a script the other day that gathered 840 home servers and over 11k public rooms. Reviewing every room by hand is impractical/impossible for one dev.

Possible solutions:

• public reporting (shot down because of abuse potential)
• automatic filters (shot down because of arbitrary closed filtering)
• filtering by obscurity (what we have now but stuff still pops up on the front page from time to time)

It might help to hear from some of the big matrix devs and community operators.. thoughts on moderation and techniques.

Many rooms don’t change often but some are fairly dynamic and their tags should probably have some flexibility as well.

Permanent description approval is a great idea as long as you don’t get overwhelmed by the amount of rooms. Automating still seems like the easiest solution..room owners can submit a ticket for you to manually fix incorrect automated tags.

Yes, only rooms approved by Kommisar Krud.

And what about sex rooms "curated" ny "kxra"/"thekyriarchy" pushing little boys to demand they were never boys and their penises were "lies" from the "patriarchy"? Do such rooms demand special "victim" status for "Political Correct" bullshit?

Or what about treasonous rooms by "Baffy" and his dozens of Sockpuppets, who want to violently overthrow the government of his U.S.A.? That shit is probably illegal.

Yet der Kommissar is worried about silly LARPERS, who fall outside the "Politically Correct" handbook left by Joseph Stalin. :-\

Maximus asked for a tldr and the backlog got longer:/

TL;DR: mr. Milk is very passionate about things not being censored. I also don’t like censorship, but wanted more strict tagging so users who don’t want to see the worst of matrix rooms can filter by tags.

The heated debate has likely scared away others from commenting their valuable opinions on this topic. Maybe someone’s different perspective can help improve things.

colonelkrud: thank you for the TD;DR, appreciated. Since you're asking for someone with a different opinion:
I think the discussion is not on track anymore and is missing more important points:

1. this is a personal project, not a business project and not a project affiliated with an entity that claims to be neutral or has the resources to handle all the consequences of a neutral approach in the current politically-correct climate of the world.
2. This is a13xmt project, and he's the sole person capable of deciding. Also, its their right to decide whatever they want. It's done free of charge, out of their own time and energy and has no need to explain his choice in the first place.
3. I believe this is a lot more about illegal vs legal rather than neutral vs politically correct. As an individual, there is basically no law that protect you against any attack if you were to list or reference in any way something which is illegal, or is nearly-illegal (e.g. something not illegal, but with enogh political pressure to cause you troubles big enough to have a significant impact on your life). This is very problematic and is not something a single invidivual can handle with something like the Matrix federation size I believe.

So TL;DR: As an individual, it's too risky to host a non-curated or non-moderated list of anything. Make sure that whatever you do is not illegal and be on the safe side!

I’m talking about nsfl (not safe for life), nsfw (porn/not safe for work), and extreme (illegal in most countries) content

I never was trying to make the point for neutral vs PC. Milk has been replying to every comment i make accusing me of that :/

I believe this is a lot more about illegal vs legal rather than neutral vs politically correct.

that is exactly what I was talking about.. with the includion of porn filtering.. but people seem to agree that porn should be tagged as porn.

and that one was a little trolling, right?

I've been trying to discuss this topic seriously. I am not really one for trolling. I was genuinely concerned about you hosting a non-moderated list and problems that could come up in the future of the project.
I apologize for sounding misleading, I never intended to imp[ly that I spoke on behalf of this project. I do not claim this project as my own. I was simply speaking as a member of the community in the dev room and making suggestions according to my subjective view of this project.