Weird... So I was doing my Drupal module collecting for a project and stumbled upon "Fetchgals"
Fetchgals is a public domain webspider used to download and/ or display free content gathered from adult entertainment TGP sites (Thumbnail Gallery Posts). This module provides a user interface for the fetchgals package and automates the entire process. It also allows you to display the content gained right there on your own Drupal site.
Okay FTR I am pro-porn and all that. Until something like this comes up and makes me re-think how, and in what circumstances I can appreciate bootie on the web.
Mostly because as soon as I read the name and the description I was like "Eep! creepy programmer boys using Drupal for their porn collections" - and then felt like my own personal favorite of an Open Source CMS had just flipped over and shown me it's wormy underside.
To be frank, it's mostly the title, and the fact that the assumption that the type of porn one would want to see is ladies and probably comes from the most typical of skin-sites. I'd be totally behind a module titled "bootie-call" which allowed anyone to scrape the sites of their choice for free naughty pics.
But of course I am one of how many developers who are going to have such "radical" views about porno and I'd probably have much more success just saying - "Look, a module like that alienates girls 'cause we hate porn." That's not the objective truth that's silly propaghanda. The objective truth (for me anyways) is that a module like that is alienating because I don't want to feel like my gender is always the object of porn-searches and never presumed the searcher.
Bahhhhhhhhh.........( eyes roll grits teeth)
Hi, as the author of the
Hi, as the author of the fetchgals module I'd just like to stick up for my work a little...
...The actual module itself is a simple shell and has NO pornographic 'ability' or content of its own. This is the single only reason it has been permitted to be published on the Drupal.org website. All the module actually does is to pass arguments to an external perl script called 'fetchgals' which is available for download (for free obviously) from Sourceforge. Why I'm telling you this is because you seem to be under the impression that either myself or Drupal are responsible for the naming of the fetchgals spider script. This is quite incorrect... And to be honest I have no idea who wrote it; I don't think it's even being developed any more as the last update to it was on May 25, 2004 which was quite some time ago...
Anyways, I'm straying from the point here which is regarding the name of the module... Whilst I share your view that the name 'fetchgals' is blatantly a Benny Hill stereotyped name, I couldn't very well name the Drupal module anything different. I mean, you wouldn't call the gmap module 'That Google Map module thing' would you? The name needs to reflect the program/ script that it interacts with else it becomes misleading or at worst, irrelevant.
One cool thing I will mention here is that I do get feedback from users about the module. Well over half the comments and questions I get are from women (or maybe men posing as women?!) the rest are from corporations/ site owners asking how to automatically tag the links with affiliate IDs so they can make free money... Oh the internet... How it pains me... Everyone wants something for nothing :o(
Pobster (just trying to restore your faith in the goodness of Drupal!)