blaineak opened this issue on May 03, 2005 ยท 165 posts
pdxjims posted Wed, 04 May 2005 at 11:15 PM
Deecey, See items one through five above. If it's completly "family freindly", then you have to decide who's family and how friendly. The highest "moral" compass? Then watch the traffic decline to the site by leaps and bounds. Besides, who's morality? And grey is a pretty color too. If this is a "family values" site, then ban everything but Cinderella pictures with no low cut gowns. About 4/5 or more of the traffic would go away. NVIAT is one of the big draws to the site. If this is an art site that allows people to filter out nudity and violence, then leave it alone and let the poor small business make money. It's only "family friendly" when a parent takes responsibility for what their children view on the 'net. The 'sity has some pretty good controls. They've already gone overboard on the kiddy porn issue to please some people who see child porn in innocent fae pictures. Now, are some of the pics bad? Yeah. Some are pretty bad. Bad lighting. Stiff posing. Bad choice of textures or poke through on clothing. Are some controversial? Sure. They're marked for nudity or violence. If you see one that should be and isn't, notify the mods and it will be. Sometimes one will be posted that's in violation of teh TOS. The mods will catch it. If they don't, let them know it's there and they'll make a decision that half of the members won't agree with anyway. That's their job. To make those decisions and take the heat. I don't always (as in seldom) agree with their decisions, but I respect them for being able to make them. The controversial should be here if this place is an art site. The bad should be here to let others provide the advice to make it better. The flags should be here to provide the tools for parents or prudes to control their viewing. Gee. Looks likes it's all in place.