hit by “mature” report, is it responsible for entries not showing up
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My only points were:
1. The criteria for a mature blog seems pretty arbitrary, it kind of reminds me of the case of The Little Sisters Bookstore.
2. The system doesn’t seem to be set up to protect anyone.But, like I wrote “…scratch that. I forgot I was in the Forum for a minute and thought I was commenting on a post.”
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The system is not set up to protect anyone. That is correct.
I’m connected with people who run Little Sisters and they have no interest in NOT being known for being open to more than PG-13.
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I mean that literally. My ex-roomie is an ex-partner of a major Little Sisters person. I’m not just blowing smoke out my chocolate starfish!
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“The criteria for a mature blog seems pretty arbitrary,”
I have asked many times for someone to create something to use when considering whether a blog is Mature or not, something that is objective not subjective, something that is workable. So far no-one has.
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Dude, you should SEE where I live. Honestly, any time some tourist gets in my face I go all “tapeworm dysentery rat-infested” on them and if they challenge me I just take them to Chinatown where they can watch the seagulls pick off the rats…
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My roommate in 2000 watched porn for the Ontario Provincial Government… he and nine other “regular people” were the star council who decided what porn could be bought and sold legally in Ontario… they also made the decisions on what had to be cut out of the movies for the distributors to get the flicks into the stores. And this was five years into the Internet Free-Porn Revolution.
“I have asked many times for someone to create something to use when considering whether a blog is Mature or not.”
Mark, buddy, I’ve seen you write this before and I get the feeling you’re leaving that as an open challenge to the WP bloggers… has there been any internal dialogue about getting Matt to pay someone to write the guidelines? I used to work for a great little Communications firm in Toronto who did that kind of thing. Someone would interview you guys (WordPress) then come back a week later with a plan. They were taken over a few years ago by Porter Novelli http://www.porternovelli.com/, which is one of the largest communications firms on the planet. Or go with the very largest, Hill & Knowlton http://www.hillandknowlton.com/, they’re slave drivers with their staff but they’ll write the guidelines for you based on similar companies offering similar products.
Two weeks after WordPress hired either of them the criteria would be in place and you can just point to the updated TOS when someone asks about the Mature guidelines. But until there is objective criteria for what makes a blog “Mature” then there should be no Mature button. I have to ask… who decides now for WP if a blog is mature and is there a whole new set of arbitrary guidelines when they’re replaced?
Mark and raincoaster… dudes. This is messed up. I’ve read your blogs… are you two fighting For placing restrictions on sexual content on WP, and asking bloggers to censor their content if they don’t want to be marked as Mature?
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I’m not fighting for anything, particularly because I don’t give a rat’s ass about any one else.
Sexual content being marked mature is pretty obvious.
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I usually make the Mature decisions.
As for what is / is not mature, if the multi-billion $$ Google cannot get it set in stone how can someone else?
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Mark, I’m sorry, but that’s just funny… like totally in a smiley emoticon doing a spit-take way. I’m just picturing you saying “nope, nothing wrong with that… but it is mature.” then bookmarking the site. For some reason Slayer’s “Raining Blood” is playing in the background.
WordPress is missing a section in their user agreement stating what “it” considers to be “Mature”, Google is just a search engine. No user agreement. This isn’t about legal and not legal, it’s about having a corporate strategy that makes sense. Seriously, call Porter Novelli or Hill & Knowlton… I honestly used to do stuff like this — not exactly like this, more about internal policy, corporate forecasts, planning and white papers for companies like Hewlett Packard, Cognos and a few others. But then my brain melted and I quit. I did write one policy paper for the Canadian Blood Services that was about their internal Internet activity policy… but that was basically a cease and desist letter to their employees regarding surfing for porn on work computers.
Call Hill & Knowlton’s London business development office at [phone number removed – Mark] and ask about how they can help you write policy papers for WordPress… it’ll change your life for the better.
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Given the personal and offensive nature of your reply I am not further commenting on this issue.
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Woah… there was no offence meant at all… I totally apologize Mark. I was trying to be funny and I missed it.
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