User blog:Squidnerd/Proposal: Revert To The MPAA System

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I'm not here to treat liberals on this wiki as second-class citizens even though they should be, I'm here to fix something really annoying that's present on every fanfiction page: the rating system.

Overview
In 2016, libtard revolutionary freedom fighter The Terrible Travis tried to destroy the wiki launched a campaign for administrator amid frustrations of inactive staff and an unenforced policy. He desired to "upgrade" certain aspects of the wiki, one of which was the rating system. He thought the age-based MPAA system was out-of-line with SBFW's values and sought a replacement for it.

Like the majority of his promises, he pretty much ignored it for a long time after getting promoted to administrator. Ponyo Fan, one of the inactive administrators, proposed to change the rating system...but guess what? It was even more strictly age based, just not using the symbols the MPAA uses. Pretty pathetic attempt to demonstrate your validity on this wiki (like this proposal). Even Travis thought it was just a load of crap.

Eventually, SpongeBot678 proposed an alternative. It was better than Ponyo Fan's, I'll give it that, but it did nothing except change the MPAA ratings into ABCs and lowered the age bar for R-rated content. At it's best, it's useless; at it's worst, it ruins a culture based around the MPAA.

A Few Reasons Why This Wouldn't Work:
 * It's still age based, that was the main thing that started this debate in the first place.
 * The majority of users are familiar with the MPAA ratings, it's unnecessary to force them to adapt to a pointless system and getting used to it.
 * Many spin-off's have referenced to the MPAA system, whether stating it in the episode script or putting it in their theme song. Life in Bikini Bottom, which went into great lengths to prove it was PG-13 and not R, is now rated D, which discourages users under 15 from reading it.

What This Proposal Will Do

 * The A rating will revert to G.
 * The B rating will revert to PG.
 * The C rating will revert to PG-13.
 * The D will revert to R, and and the age recommendation bar will be raised from 15 to 17.
 * The NC-17 rating will be reinstated, with no restrictions on content other than FANDOM's Terms of Use (that's de jure though, because FANDOM's Terms of Use pretty much bans anything above G).
 * Abolish the Z rating.

Voting
Unlike real movies, there's actually nothing preventing an 8-year-old from clicking on an NC-17 article here. Ratings were always meant to be advisory, and making up strange letter systems isn't going to help.

Vote, , or.

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