User blog comment:DontAskWhoJoeIs/Proposal: ABOLISH Irritating Featured Content Restrictions/@comment-30107948-20200104144034

virtually every point you made on this proposal does not work and i already explained why on our discussion earlier on discord.

> However, a flaw in this statement of his is how he failed to mention how you must be 13+ to sign into SBFW, and yet you do not need to be 13+ to watch SpongeBob.

the d rating isn't a 13+ rating, it's a 15+ rating. the c rating is a 13+ rating, and you can request to feature content that is c-rated. along with that the featured content goes on the main page, a page people can read without being logged in.

> By refusing to feature D rated content on the front page, we as a community are in a way, intentionally or not, censoring creativity, which is something I strongly stand against. We must be better than Susan Wojcicki and modern YouTube. Which is why I am proposing to allow D and Z rated content to be featured on the front page, once again.

how is this censoring creativity? we're allowing people to make d and even z-rated content as much as they wish, it just can't be featured. it can win some other awards, just not the featured content one.

also, you're even going as far to allow z-rated content to be on the front page. the z rating is a rating with no restrictions other than restrictions we have no choice but to follow. this is just making me opposed to the idea more so.

> After all, what's the difference between this and linking to an article titled "Snail Sex" in the automatic Welcome message EVERY new user to SBFW receives? There really is none...

there is a huge difference.

again, you do not have to be logged in to read the front page. and when you're not logged in, you do not get the welcome message. notjoe said in our discussion earlier "well you don't have to be logged in to read the message." while that is correct, the likelihood of someone not logged in reading the message is, very small. the likelihood of someone not logged in reading the main page however, is incredibly high.

this is a very poorly done proposal in my honest opinion, none of the points here really make sense, and i personally see nothing good coming out of it. maybe whoever is reading this thinks this is a good idea. but i don't.