This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:
- missionary (1x)
Now, I’m curious. If I were to get into the habit of dropping the “m” word frequently, would that earn me PG status?
Other than that horrendous word, I do tend to keep it pretty clean around here. But the internet, by its very nature, is a PG affair.
And that includes this blog. I don’t screen the links in my blogrolls, and I don’t assess the political, religious and moral backgrounds of people I link to. Sometimes I link to things because they are offensive.
Things like this or this, which everyone really should sit and ponder at some point in their lives. But maybe not at 8, and a little parental guidance is suggested.
HT: OpinionMom
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Uh, I am rated R. I have used the word cocaine (7x), death (3x), dangerous (2x) and heroin (1x).
So, okay… I guess I can understand the cocaine, heroin and death words might raise red flags. Particularly since the tool looks for their mere presence and doesn’t analyze their context. I have a whole bunch to say about the affects of alcohol and drug use on the fetus. The word heroin is from a quote from the Institute of Medicine. I don’t recall that being a raunchy or offensive institution.
But dangerous? Come on dangerous? I protest that word too ~ really! I think I deserve at most a PG. :o)
I hope you will continue to link to my blog. I have never been considered risque before. Maybe I should be flattered.
How funny! Of course it’s some sort of algorithm, and not an intelligent assessment.
I never thought about it, but I agree that the internet requires parental guidance. My daughter is constantly asking me to move her computer into her room. The answer is a big NO!
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How funny. My blog is PG too, but I had the word “sex” in there somewhere… Was that in one of your comments?? lol
Anna-Marie, are you saying I am a bad influence on your blog?
Julie, I don’t know. I am on the family-friendly blogroll, after all, so I have maintain some sort of standard. I wonder…if your site got rated R for those words, how would DARE fare?
Hmm…G-Rating. But it isn’t a blog, so I don’t know if it can read it. I may have to play with it some more.
Ah! IE users can’t comment? I may have to figure out what is up with that. As if I had a clue.
Laura, I would never put the computer in my child’s room, either. She has a blog and she has time to play around. I don’t stand over her shoulder (and at this point, any trouble she’d get herself into would be purely accidental), but mom is close by. Mostly she just wants to go to that blog pets page to play with the little animals and she keeps asking me to put yet another pet in her sidebar!
My old blog got a G-rating on that thing too. I know it’s just for fun, but the algorithm is really just pathetic.
Have to agree that any blog with a blogroll (especially a those Special Interest “ring” blogrolls) deserves at least a PG-rating. One of the first things I noticed upon visiting here is that one of your blogrolls links to a pretty offensive racist, so it’s pretty much a given that you can’t control what others write, but unless you want to just lock down and have what probably would be more of a personal homepage than a blog, a PG rating should be a given.
Oh, and I had a computer in my room for the bulk of my childhood. Of course, there was no internet access then…
There is some interesting stuff in blogrolls. I dropped one because the owner got on my nerves, but I generally figure that most people surfing through here are adults capable of at least some level of discernment.
We had an old Apple 2E in our classroom, but our family’s first computer was the 486 I bought in college.
Dana, BTW I tagged you for the 8 random things meme on my blog.
OK, Melissa. I don’t know what the deal is, but I just opened this up in IE and, although it loaded slower, this appears to be working fine.
I guess we’ll see if it publishes, but now I’m really confused.
We kept the only television and computer in a common family area to provide a safe environment for our children and to act as a silent invitation to meet as a family.
PG is a good thing, when properly applied.
I only rate a G, no bad words found. Does that mean I’m not cool, pertinent, substantial, consequential, …?
Nope, it means you have a nice place to hang out! And you don’t say “missionary” more than absolutely necessary!