[bksvol-discuss] Re: adult ratings Re: Re: Uh oh -- re weird, Adult rating

  • From: "Lisa Leonardi" <lml5280@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:20:40 -0600

I see your point.  However, if I had a child who was a member of bookshare,
I would not feel too safe if there wasn't any type of adult rating.  I know
the system isn't perfect, but I think it's good that there's one in place.
I've run into some erotica books on bookshare and would be horrified if I
had a child and that child came in contact with that type of material.  So,
I think the system, no matter how arbitrary, is good.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shayla Parker" <shayla@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 2:14 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] adult ratings Re: Re: Uh oh -- re weird, Adult
rating


> This is neither here nor there, but I've always been more than a little
> amused by the Bookshare adult rating system. Automated checker or not,
it's
> always seemed quite arbitrary to me, particularly as it more often than
not
> depends on the discression of an individual validator. I highly suspect
> that what I consider to be adult content and what some other validators
> think is adult content are very different things.
>
> Though, personally, I find the entire concept to be vaguely pointless.
> There's an underlying assumption in this sort of system about people's
> inability to deal with complex topics that is in the end more than a
little
> paternalistic. If people don't want to read a particular sort of book
> that's one thing, and for that I suppose the system is useful. But telling
> young people what they should and shouldn't read is an inherently flawed
> idea, as is the whole concept of 'look away! look away! bad things in the
> book will leap off the page and infect you!'
>
> I imagine it's partly a legal issue for Bookshare, though, which is a
shame
> really because more than one excellent book I remember fondly from my
> teenage years is out of reach of Bookshare's younger members. I have no
> suggestions on how to make the rating process more intuitive, or even more
> uniform as it clearly is not now. So in the end I am entirely unhelpful
> except to muddy the waters a little bit.
> skp
>
> At 10:05 PM 1/16/2005, you wrote:
> >Sue,
> >
> >Yes, but the way the bookshare site works is that adult rated books
should
> >not show up without logging in.  Not only can I see them when I'm not
logged
> >in, but the adult rating is totally missing.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
> >To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 10:49 PM
> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Uh oh -- re weird, Adult rating
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > HHi Cindy,
> > >
> > > Even if folks can see the titles and authors without logging in, they
> >can't
> > > download them if they are copyrighted..  So I don't see any big deal.
> > > <<lol>
> > >
> > > Sue S.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 10:28 PM
> > > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Uh oh -- re weird, Adult rating
> > >
> > >
> > > -But I did at least on Love Slave, which was rhe first
> > > I did. I don't think Rosamund needed it. I can' t
> > > remember if I did on Until You, but that probably
> > > didn't need it either. After that I stopped scanning.
> > > Unless it's no longer necessary to log in to see Adult
> > > rated books, that is no longer marked Adult.
> > >
> > > Cindy
> > >
> > > > You know, I never marked Adult on the bErtrice Small
> > > > books.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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> Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
> Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
> I know. But I do not approve.
> And I am not resigned.
>
> -- 'Dirge Without Music', Edna St. Vincent Millay
>
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