Your chance to speak out about lens ratings
Take this survey to show us what you think about how ratings should work on lenses.
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What does the Motion Picture Association say about ratings?
G Ratings for Movies Means...
R Ratings for Movies Means...
What are your definitions of G and R ratings?
Everyone has a different definition of G and R rated, and a lot of it has to do with personal experience. Religious beliefs, parenting status and style, and career choices affect what you want to see and what you want to be able to see.
So, pick a side or define both! Sound off on your definition of a G and R rating.
Define G and R rated lenses.
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byA G rated lens contains...
Cherrybomb2009 says:
A G rated lens is not JUST elementary school stuff. The help lenses here, such as the html lenses, and even some (and I do mean some, NOT all) of the fashion lenses. Although they're G-rated and appropriate for kids to view, it may be stuff a kid wouldn't be interested in at all. Also, there's the issue of individuals who would never read G-rated lenses because they think it's all kid-geared stuff, when in fact it could be that html lens they could benefit from. PG ratings to fill the gap in between sound good to me.
Posted December 04, 2009
Greekgeek says:
Disney stuff. Some scary stuff you might get in a kid's fable or on Saturday morning cartoons, but no swearing, no nudity, nothing more "sexy" than kissing (and this is peck-on-the-cheek or Princess Bride kissing, nothing more.)
Posted November 21, 2009
makingamark says:
G rated lens are lenses that contain material which you wouldn't mind a teacher printing out and distributing your pre-teen kids. In other words it's safe for all eyes - whether Squidoo members or not - and responsibly handled.
Plus the only adverts which can be seen on G rated lenses MUST be G rated too - otherwise the rating system is a complete nonsense.
Kids view Squidoo lenses without being logged in. Filters that operate for Squidoo members only can be completely irrelevant to them.
There are far too many G rated lenses at the moment which are nothing of the sort - and nothing seems to happen to them!
Posted June 30, 2009
An R rated lens contains...
Greekgeek says:
Hints of sexual activity, full nudity, multiple swear words, violence (and we're not talking Superfriends or Saturday morning cartoon "Bam" "Pow" stuff, but Grand Theft Auto or action movie violence with blood, visible wounds, death, people in pain.)
Posted November 21, 2009
prosperity66 says:
I can't believe parents let their kids that are less than 6 (and even less than 10) alone on the Internet!
Posted July 22, 2009
The_Health_Lady says:
The rating should be a bit different than how the motion picture rating are. For example: I always thought that most Walt Disney movies should be R rated since they depict a violent death of one of the main characters. (think about this you'll realize it's true) Yet if someone wants to have a lens on lets say Bambi , then it could be G rated if they didn't show the death. Show a picture of Momma getting blown away by the hunter then it's R rated.
So it's not necessarily what you lens discusses or talks about but how and in what context it is taken.
Posted July 02, 2009
makingamark says:
any text or image or product which you wouldn't want a teacher handing out to your pre-teens in class. The same goes for all adverts - would you let a teacher hand out gambling adverts to your pre-teens?
Posted July 02, 2009
CoolFoto says:
swearing and/or sex and/or nudity.
Posted June 30, 2009
Are you pulling for a PG rating?
A PG rating isn't in the plans at this time, but we know that a lot of lensmasters feel passionately about it. What are your thoughts?
I want to stop seeing that splash page.
If you're ok seeing R-rated lenses, you can skip the splash page by changing the Safe Browsing setting on the My Profile tab of your dashboard.
What other ideas do you have?
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- Greekgeek Greekgeek Nov 21, 2009 @ 6:21 pm
- PG rating is desperately needed. I've got Greek art statues. They've got dangly bits. It's not pornographic, but I feel guilty every time I click on the G rating. Then I've got a page about funny things students have turned in on student papers, and one little swear word ruins the G rating, but it's certainly not R! I had that lens invisible on search results for years because I'd rated it R, and it nearly got et during the adult lenses purge. PLEASE please please give us PG!
I don't think we need a splash page for anything that could be found on TV before 10PM. ;)
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- Onegreenguy Onegreenguy Sep 21, 2009 @ 10:39 pm
- Life isn't just black or white there are shades of grey also. Isn't Squidoo about life and all its shapes and forms, just condensed onto lenses? I personally think a PG rating would round out the equation nicely. Sometimes "gosh" and "golly gee" just don't fit the scenario ya know...
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- Pukeko Pukeko Aug 20, 2009 @ 8:31 pm
- I think rating and appropriateness is extremely subjective. The issue needs to be clearly defined rules and an opportunity to both dispute your rating and change your content if you don't like the rating. Here in New Zealand we often hire American made movies which say on the printed label some form of "not suitable/recommended for persons under 15/16/18 years of age" yet they have a New Zealand PG rated sticked and a "family" sticker in the corner. (I have one in my hand now).
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- boshemia boshemia Aug 7, 2009 @ 10:11 pm
- I'm going to second thefluffanutta. As a parent it is my responsibility to monitor the information that my children see on the internet, and while Squidoo may be trying to be responsible about what children have access to - most sites are not. If I'm not doing my job, then that really isn't your fault is it?
I think limiting all Squidoo pages to a PG rating would be a great idea...
"A PG-rated motion picture should be investigated by parents before they let their younger children attend. The PG rating indicates, in the view of the Rating Board, that parents may consider some material unsuitable for their children, and parents should make that decision.
The more mature themes in some PG-rated motion pictures may call for parental guidance. There may be some profanity and some depictions of violence or brief nudity. But these elements are not deemed so intense as to require that parents be strongly cautioned beyond the suggestion of parental guidance."
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- DAnnieB DAnnieB Jul 23, 2009 @ 6:47 am
- We need a PG rating -- having to rate a page that is PG "R" is stopping a lot of people from seeing it -- because a lot of people simply won't sign up just to follow a link from someone else's page.
That stops a lot of people from (in order of importance I think) realizing how great Squidoo is, from reading great lenses and - if we have to get crass - from buying things.
I think you are shooting yourselves in the foot by NOT having a PG rating!
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