[bksvol-discuss] Re: Adult rating



My thoughts exactly.

Jim At 09:23 PM 6/8/04 -0500, you wrote:
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> the problem of adding classification notes in the long synopsis is that: 
> 
> They can occupy precious real-estate. 
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> They may be written in non standard forms or difficult to understand
>abbreviated forms. 
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>  Thus the selection box: 
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>Violence could have values: 
>none. 
>some violence. 
>Violence. 
>Extreme violence. 
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>based on appropriate word counts performed by the system, with the usual
>manual overrides allowed 
>A similar box could be used for sexual words. 
> 
>Guido 
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>  "some
>" to the Long Synopsis? That would be much quicker than
> waiting till the book becomes part of the collection, and then writing a
> review.
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>  I thought the synopses were related to the content of a book, while
> reviews relate more to someone's opinion about the book. If that's correct,
> then it does seem appropriate to add brief notations about violence,
> profanity or sexual content to a synopsis.
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> Regards,
> Paula
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>><> But I'm wondering why
> descriptions related to adult content of the type we've been discussing
> should go into a review and not into the longer synopsis. I see one problem
>> with that approach. The validator or submitter who had the concern might
> not be able to access the book once published. We do have volunteers who are
> not elligible to download the books after publication. Also,
>> people use to web braille and tb topics and braille book review are use to
> seeing those content disclaimors posted with the book descriptions. I know
> there is no mechanism for a separate review on such services, of
>> course. but it seems to me that you'd want these concerns more accessible.
> If somebody sees a synopsis and thinks a book looks good, they may not
> bother to read somebody's review, since they're already
>> convinced they want to download it, based on the synopsis, or just the
> author.title, without benefit of needing to read the review. Just some food
> for thought and a possible change of policy.
>> mary
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