Resolution talk:Personal image hiding feature

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Q - What does it mean to "affirm our support for user choice"?
A: It is important for readers to be able to customize their experience on the projects, and to make their browsing and searching useful and comfortable.
Q - What does this mean for suggestions proposed so far, by community members and others, to provide users with a choice in what images they see?
A: A variety of useful suggestions have been proposed to help customize image display; from solutions for individual pages where the curation and selection of images is controversial (e.g., Muhammad), to options for customizing search results, to options for all images.
Q - If there is a simple feature like this that is designed by community members and supported by the vast majority of people in a community (say, in a long-running RfC), would it be implemented?
A: For features that are not controversial and supported by a vast majority of community members: yes. Gathering feedback on a feature request, and gauging community interest in it, is a bottleneck for implementation.
Q - Could different communities choose to implement different solutions to this set of issues?
A: Yes. Currently most communities implement their own solutions and editorial guidelines for issues that divide readers. Any tools or features developed could be implemented by communities that want them.