Board Thread:Administrator Notice/@comment-1669199-20140104230141/@comment-24252369-20140110014335

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 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).