PG RATING in FORUM???!!!? MATURE? or PG?

What measure? I didn't know there had been an official declaration on these things.

coco

P.S. Never mind . . . I just read the first page more carefully. I agree with their position, pixels or no.

Er, the one where they would remove images of avatar nudity?

* Edit: Ok. Well, I disagree strongly with it. I think it was an unnecessary move.

If the nude pics are in links, as they usually were before, then you aren't being assaulted by anything. It's your choice to click the link and see the pic, or ignore it and not see it. I'm really having a hard time understanding what's wrong with that.

Torley, the silly part of all this is that you and I allegedly assured the Lindens that we're over 18 when we set up our account -- and with an account, no forum access.

I initially was going to respond to this whole thread by noting the general movement in America toward a more Puritan viewpoint on sex & morality, but on further reflection even that is irrelevant -- efforts by Congress to impose controls on adult content on the internet (as futile as it may be) have yet to go beyond the same 18-yo limit that SL already uses.

So, IMO, the idea that children could read these boards is immaterial. They may, but if they do it's because they lied or otherwise sidestepped the TOS.

That leaves us with the regular SL members who do not want to view adult content. And they're numerous, I'm sure. Their view deserves respect, as well. The Lindens would be getting into a slippery area if they started making fine distinctions between one forum and another. Easier just to apply the same PG rules to all of them. If I want to view adult content, I can just log into SL itself

Or maybe someone could create a (tasteful) SL fansite that leans toward the adult. (SLerotica.com didn't seem to get very far)



Why not? I think there's a web-wide convention on some privately owned boards that, while they don't want you posting nudes on their board they don't mind if you link offsite with a warning.

Cindy

I agree with you, Juro. I guess I should have said, "makes us all seem more adult to the casual reader who might think we are speaking civilly by choice" or some such.

coco

As for this rest - I'm not used to seing everyone ELSE in the shower as I go about rl. Blame the Puritans.

coco

I could be wrong. But I think the picture that was moved was a solo picture, which means it pops up in all it's glory. It was my understanding that multiple pictures show up in a listing and therefore must be clicked to be seen. In the past I have seen warnings that clicking on this link might not be suitable for office viewing.

So here's my take on the removal of that particular picture. It popped up with no warning. Whether you are an adult or not, sometimes your computer is situated in areas where co-workers or young people or others might be in a viewing range. While I don't have that problem, my chihuahuas are used to pixel nudity and my work area is very private, I can understand others concerns. True you might just avoid skin posting but sometimes it's nice to see the responses to a particular skin, even if you can't view that skin at the same time.

So I don't see it so much as censorship but consideration. Am I right Lindens?

Having a forum that is divided into PG and M just sounds like a lot of hassle to me. I can't possibly imagine the waste of time that would be.

Just a question though...are there set standards for what is considered PG or M? My opinion of what is considered M could be completely way off base when compared to someone else's opinion. Just because something may offend you, doesn't mean that it should be banned completely from the forums. Dont like it? Dont look at it!

I would hate to think that a day may come where everything I do, say, read, look at, listen to, build, can no longer be just because someone else finds it offensive. Give me a break.

I'm sorry but did you read my whole post? I think it's the one that just pops up that was the problem. Can you see the difference between clicking on a link and having the picture open up in the post? Is there no middle ground here?

Maybe the New Products - Body Shop should just have a M disclaimer in the Sticky portion - pertaining to Av nudity.

Really is silly not to be able to have full nudity in Skin Ads, since how you will look naked is one of your shopping criteria.

Also - if the forums are restriced to PG level type things then language is really going to need to be curtailed.

Some people do seem to like to use profanity here.

Not an offsite link. When one picture is uploaded, it opens automatically. When there are several pictures uploaded, it shows just the links. I actually prefer this method because it also shows you the size of the picture which is helpful when on dialup.

See this picture is from a post with attached images