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by ClassicFarris 4309 days ago
Your comment about the bool, got me thinking. This would have been better implemented if it was thought of along the lines of movie rating system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_picture_rating_system

However, this got me thinking that across cultural lines there are a lot of shades to what is "safe". So a website based in Austria might want to restrict different content than a website based in Australia, and who knows where the "browser" is based.

Of course your comments about the site actually implementing anything/correctly still apply.

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I vaguely remember in the early days of the web (95-96?) there was a hopeful rating system very much like what you get for movies. I can't remember what the header was, but it was formatted something like "Violence 1; Sex 10; Drugs 5; Gambling 0". For obvious reasons it didn't catch on.