Casette opened this issue on Jan 20, 2007 · 433 posts
Keith posted Sun, 28 January 2007 at 6:57 PM
Quote - QUOTE:
"Can anyone provide a single bloody rational reason why this image has a "DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SHIELD YOUR VIRGIN EYES!" warning thumbnail?"
Easy, to get hits, of course. It's an old tactic. It could, of course, also be a lame form of
protest against the new policy. I've seen several of those too. SIGH. People just NEVER
change, no matter HOW much time passes. :)Greywolf
Which, of course, shows the utter failure of the way the system is set up. What the policy in essence does is create the opportunity for this type of gaming which will, of course, makes the content advisory label absolutely useless. It's as if movies were required to label themselves NC-17 if they showed any depiction of sex, even if ti was only one of those TV flashbacks (no total nudity, nothing naughty displayed, only a man and a woman making out in a bed) that you might see regarding two characters who had a history.
By insisting on the label you've lumped together a prime time network TV series with softcore porn from a pay per view movie channel. You're providing zero useful information while allowing some producer to try and ramp up viewings by having a five-second shot that has utterly nothing to do with anything else in the film to bump up the rating.