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separate, don't hide
To separate it, have people need to log in, and be verified by having paid.. that's as much as anyone can do. It can even be an advantage, but I would prefer not to have my writing swept under a lable of 'everything else' in there with how to unplug a drain or something.
I write here so that people will read my stuff. If I'm just hidden away so that no one can even find it, what point is there in that?
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posted by
pinkwhirlwind
on June 19, 2003 at 11:16 AM
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Separation
As on eBay, Mature Audiences would actually be separate from the general site. For instance, the blogs in this category would not appear in the general site's Top 10 or be featured on the home page.
Of course, there is no way to completely prevent minors from viewing any blog, but restricting access to adult material is one way to help prevent it. The category approach is clearer at restricting access than labeling a post. One option would be to have two blogs, with appropriate content in each.
posted by
Humayun
on September 21, 2002 at 11:55 AM
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Adult stuff
Also, it would be hard to judge what is and what isn't adult content. For example, most of my stuff is *about* adult content rather than actually adult content in its own right. Being able to flag individual posts would be preferable.
Maybe actual adult content (pics/dirty stories etc) could go into a separate but associated site (see http://www.backwash.com and http://adult.backwash.com for a site that does this) so that the top ten didn't get taken over by porn - which it probably would if there was any on here?
posted by
emilyd
on September 20, 2002 at 8:01 AM
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How about...
a mature audiences label rather than category? I wouldn't want to put my blog into the mature audiences category, but I definitely think that a lot of my content is inappropriate for minors. (There are some things kids just shouldn't know about their teachers.)
Besides, won't a mature audiences category just attract the kids to that area while repelling most adults??
posted by
timshell
on September 19, 2002 at 6:05 PM
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