Board Thread:Administrator Notice/@comment-1669199-20140104230141/@comment-1669199-20140111000305

MoonMoonTheWolf wrote: Genesjs wrote:

I'll say it again: So what if a handful of shows are doing things differently than a handful of other competing shows/programming? That doesn't prove that the mainstream audience, young or old, is okay with how the former is more daring with their writing/content compared to the competition.

Not just a "handful" of TV shows. This change has occured with almost all modern TV shows and movies rated PG-13.

Genesjs wrote:

What use would creating such pages have for this place? Its not our place to set a rule of guidelines/suggestions for parents/guardians to use while monitoring their children as they browse this site. Anything we could hope to tell them should be knowledge they themselves should already know if they're already responsible/caring enough to know/remember how to properly watch what their kids are doing. Creating pages like that would be a waste of everyone's time, because the burden of having such knowledge rests on the parents/guardians themselves -- we're not caretakers or teachers for new parents/guardians.

Just to remind you, I wasn't the person here who brought up the idea of having a parent page and didn't make having one a priority in my statement (that's how your reply sounds; please disregard that if it's not what you meant.) I addressed that idea after reading it on this thread and on another one here specifically about having a parent page, since the idea is in some ways related to the topic.

Genesjs wrote:

Wikia encourages new users to read about the Children's Internet Protection Act when they begin the sign-up process for making an account on Wikia. We don't need to put up a banner telling people they should be at least 13 years of age before joining SNN, as Wikia has been attempting to do that with everyone who joins them long before anyone here signed up themselves. Also, we already have links to the rules/policies pages on the main page, so all anyone looking for information about our rules & guidelines needs to do is read the basic summary about SNN and follow the links to these pages while they're on the front page. We don't need to repeat ourselves or make it easier for newcomers to find this information in a separate banner that takes up space on the main page when, arguably, this information is already in easy-to-spot locations on the front page already. Again, they just need to take the time to read what's on the main page already, then they'd find the links to the rules/policies pages. And even if we do consider making such a banner, what makes you so certain it wouldn't be ignored just like the information Wikia themselves encourage new Users to read when they're signing up for an account?

I was already aware of this and knew that it would not be necessary; the idea for the homepage was just a potential solution for the associated concern of parental control, if that is a real issue here. If it is not a real concern in this topic, then I agree that parental supervision and what these young children view on the internet is their own responsibility completely. I already had that opinion anyway (as seen in my previous posts); I was simply providing an idea in case parent-approving this wiki will be unavoidably needed (which it most likely will not).

Just like to say this real quick before I address your arguments: I saw your comment regarding that User last night, but I didn't have time to reply to it. Indeed, it was an oversight on my part regarding said User's overall involvement in this affair. I apologize for this mistake. As for your arguments...

"PG-13" applies to the general age group for teenage audiences (ages 13 to 16. Mature ratings start from 17 years and up). I don't recall ever seeing a Teen/PG-13 Sonic game/movie/TV show/etc. ever being made and given such ratings. Even Shadow the Hedgehog was an E-10+ game, despite some of the content that game possessed. So let me ask you this: What does created media with PG-13 ratings have to do with the Sonic series, and why should we care about those higher-rated media when they haven't been shown to have any impact on the Sonic series' general ratings?

It doesn't matter who brought the idea up originally, if you or anyone supports the implementation of this idea (not saying that you actually do, I'm speaking hypothetically) then I, along with others who disagree with the idea and its so-called "merits", needs to speak up as to why we don't think it wouldn't work/would be too much work, which is what I'm attempting to do right now. At any rate, I already stated why I'm against the idea, so I won't trouble anyone with a repeat of something I already stated.

If you already knew it wasn't necessary, then why bring it up in the first place? At any rate, '''(for convenience's sake, I shall write the following in bold so it should be easier to spot) the real issue of this forum is to address a potential lapse in Mod/Admin responsibility in regards to upholding a set of rules that were established for the Chat room when it was originally implemented: Prevent the spread of strong vulgar speech on the chat for the sake of making the Chat room more User friendly towards those with language preferences on a children's franchise's website, and to make sure that inappropriate content such as pornography and other blatantly controversial topics (the ones that would cause flame wars/trolling as easily as breathing) and bullying is kept under check in order to make sure we're upholding an oath to keep this Wiki child friendly and to stay on good terms with Wikia who, last I checked, is against such content/bullying being hosted anywhere on their site.

Anyway, I also already explained my thoughts on this issue, so I won't repeat myself.