What type of work will you not accept?

Inspired by an interesting thread on a completely different subject on here dating back to just a year ago, I decided to make this topic. My question as follows.

What type of work do you not accept?

So to answer myself...

What type of work do you not accept?

I will not accept any work that asks me to develop a gambling, adult (soft core, hard core, adult ads of any kind such as escort services), pharmaceuticals of any kind, hate sites, political sites, and spam sites.

Fixing someone elses CSS has always been a nightmare job and I usually end up recoding the entire thing just to please myself. Recently stopped accepting this type of work.

I'm pretty relaxed with designing for 18+ material.

Well originally I'd have said just Adult, but now I think about it out I'd agree with you on the gambling and fake-pharma.

Why wouldn't you do gambling? I can understand the other two.

Originally Posted by Dan Why wouldn't you do gambling? I can understand the other two.

Some, such as myself, feel it wouldn't be good for the portfolio and I know a few people who pretty much sabotaged their work because they did stuff like that. What sucks is that gambling sites are usually advanced and have a lot of UI and GUI work, when bug free is very good for your reputation as a developer.

Originally Posted by Spherions Some, such as myself, feel it wouldn't be good for the portfolio and I know a few people who pretty much sabotaged their work because they did stuff like that. What sucks is that gambling sites are usually advanced and have a lot of UI and GUI work, when bug free is very good for your reputation as a developer.

You haven't got to show said work within your portfolio.

Originally Posted by Dan You haven't got to show said work within your portfolio.

Reread my post. Sites that have extensive programming in the UI department are great, why wouldn't you show them, the problem is, they're gambling sites. Understand what I said now?

There's no type of site I won't develop. Money's money, and what they do with it post-launch is their business.

I think I don't want to do restaurant menu no more. I just had one, not only I have to type out all the menu items and price, he suddenly wants to change all prices to +10%. so I have to click the calculator... type... oh no...

Whoring.

As for web-related work, anything not worth my time. Subject matter would be fairly open (contrary to popular belief I'm not a prude who would shy away from pictures of pretty ladies) so long as the job was interesting and/or paid well (and wasn't illegal, but that should go without saying). Cookie-cutter e-commerce, "affiliate marketing", ebook sites however; no thanks!