At 06:46 PM 5/9/96 EDT, you wrote:

While that they aren't going for "this isn't appropriate" is to their credit, they do have a lot of problems with the nonsensical nature of some of their ratings; take a look at the definitions, for instance. (It's also obvious that they simply copied them from their ratings of video games. A lot of their HTML references for the definitions are messed up, incidentally.)

I would agree the questions seem too video game orientated, and I don't like some of the questions either. However, it is a fair effort, and I don't think if something is questionable (for instance, someone errs by labeling someone that is 18 years old as a teenager) the whole system falls to pieces. Or some crucial piece of information on my home page, that some child might have seen, but won't be seen because I labeled a character in one of my stories as a teenager even if he/she was a teenager. I'm sure this is something that could go on for a very long time in some cypherpunk thread (something I'm not interested in argueing about), but there is no such thing as a perfectly objective or unbiased system. For instance, I don't like the distinctions other systems make for homosexuality, but I also understand some parents may wish to screen on it... _______________________ Regards, Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. -Spinoza Joseph Reagle http://farnsworth.mit.edu/~reagle/home.html reagle@mit.edu E0 D5 B2 05 B6 12 DA 65 BE 4D E3 C1 6A 66 25 4E