[bksvol-discuss] Re: VAT's proposed change to adult rating system
- From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:00:03 -0800
I would not mind the current single switch setting if it were actually
limited to the described test. The "would a book store be able to
sell the item to a minor?" test. I don't see any means of automating
that test, so just loosening the reins to allow either submitter or
proofer to un-check it would be a major improvement.
The automated tool is simply far more sensitive than the test warrants.
On 3/28/10, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank you. That is an improvement. I still don't think a solution has been
> reached, though, until these labels are made just informational rather than
> something that will prohibit access by certain people due to status.
>
>
> _ _ _
>
> "As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the world"
> Virginia Woolf
>
> The Militant:
> http://www.themilitant.com
> Pathfinder Press:
> http://www.pathfinderpress.com
> Granma International:
> http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 3:48 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] VAT's proposed change to adult rating system
>
>
> Because numerous problems around the adult rating system have come up
> frequently the following was proposed by the Volunteer Advisory Team
> to Bookshare. It is currently under consideration by Bookshare for
> implementation.
>
> From VAT to Bookshare:
>
> Based on discussions on the volunteer booklist, and amongst ourselves, we,
> the volunteer advisory team, would like to request that Bookshare make the
> following changes to the book rating system:
>
> 1. Both submitters and proofreaders should have the ability to make
> decisions concerning a book's content status.
> 2. That three checkboxes indicating whether or not a book has "strong
> language", "descriptions of sexual situations" and "violence" either replace
> the current method of rating a book as adult or not, or be developed in
> addition to the current adult rating structure.
> 3. That the results of these checkboxes be placed prominently on the new
> books list, most popular books list and book searches, any screen that shows
> multiple books as well as on the book information screen.
> 4. That options can be configured in My Account, so that a user can elect
> not to be presented with titles that have been marked as containing strong
> language, explicit descriptions of sex or violence.
> and
> 5. That Bookshare publish guidelines, including, but not necessarily
> limited to a complete list of words which the tools consider to indicate
> adult content, for volunteers to employ when making these designations, so
> that as much as possible of the subjectivity can be
> removed.
>
> Judy s, co-chair, VAT
>
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