[uf-discuss] Exploratory discussion: content rating

[Drew McLellan]

On 27 Jul 2006, at 14:46, Scott Reynen wrote:

> On Jul 27, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Drew McLellan wrote:
>
>> All content published on the web is unrated (in terms of nudity,  
>> violence, profanity etc) by default. There is currently no  
>> *simple* method for authors to express a rating for their content  
>> so that visitors may choose to filter on their level of comfort.
>
> This was discussed at some length last October:
>
> http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005- 
> October/001684.html

Unless I've misunderstood, that proposal was different in that it was  
attempting to apply a 'xxx' rating to a link.
Here we're talking about rating an item of content itself, like a  
photo, paragraph or perhaps an entire page.

Interesting to see the NSFW model cropping up again.

drew.