[naikrovek]

it's a nearly perfect analogy for a laymans view of what content moderation should look like.

"my children will see no violence" looks wonderful on paper but there are a great many edge cases where this simple rule is plainly broken all the time in harmless ways.

in reality, what crosses the line one has in mind when they create the simple rule is created is far, far more complex than anyone who makes these rules is prepared to admit.

there is so little "black and white" in these things; it's almost entirely "grey" areas. that's what this quiz is meant to convey.

it is extremely effective at this.

[pessimizer]

> it's a nearly perfect analogy

People are saying that it's not, and that it's a strawman for what a layman's view of what content moderation should look like.

[howenterprisey]

Heh, I thought the quiz was almost entirely not grey areas. It seems like the police car and ambulance were about as gray as it got, the others seem pretty obviously non-gray.

[jakelazaroff]

That's why the analogy is so good! The police car and ambulance were the most obvious ones to me (other than the Honda Civic); surfboard and ice skates were much tougher. It shows how we're really seeing things through our own lenses, even when they seem so obvious that no one could conceivably disagree.

Also interesting: the fact that 50% more people described a skateboard being used as a vehicle than a skateboard being carried.

[jhugo]

Are you saying that everyone easily agrees on what a “vehicle” is, except in the case of a police car or an ambulance?

That roller skates are clearly either a vehicle or not, but a police car is a gray area?

note that the question was whether the rule “no vehicles in the park” has been violated, not whether it should be allowed to be violated.