Seems ASACP has a new agenda

[Allfetish]

Originally Posted by Bill

What, practically speaking, can be done to repudiate them and try to correct their behavior?

I've been annoyed at ASACP ever since I realized their meta tagging system was essentially useless for any professional adult site builder. Registering every site I build with their too-complicated tag system isn't practical.

All we need is one universal tag that can tell ANY browser "This site is not for kids".

ASACP's inability to see the power of such a tag has always convinced me that they are a fraudulent organization, more interested in perpetuating their own existence than in solving the problem.

I completely agree. It would be so much easier if it became a standard on the internet to merely add a general tag, or hey, even content specific tags such as "violence", "full nudity". "Hardcore sexual activity", etc.

It is really such a simple thing. Then let the common browsers implement this with a sort of password protection that the parent can enable. Problem solved - at least if the parent actually cared enough to learn to use the system - but chances are, if they did, they'd be sitting next to their child on the computer watching as it is wherever possible.

IF the government is going to make laws out of it, I personally would not mind it if they did make it mandatory that we used these tags. Jsut as long as they didn't require BS such as a centralized registry where we have to provide our names, addresses, etc or some sort of licensing/fee structure. Of course, I'm not really what you'd call an optimist already, and from my seven years in this business I'd be shocked if the government did something that actually made sense relating to the industry.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by Allfetish

I completely agree. It would be so much easier if it became a standard on the internet to merely add a general tag, or hey, even content specific tags such as "violence", "full nudity". "Hardcore sexual activity", etc.

It is really such a simple thing. Then let the common browsers implement this with a sort of password protection that the parent can enable. Problem solved - at least if the parent actually cared enough to learn to use the system - but chances are, if they did, they'd be sitting next to their child on the computer watching as it is wherever possible.

IF the government is going to make laws out of it, I personally would not mind it if they did make it mandatory that we used these tags. Jsut as long as they didn't require BS such as a centralized registry where we have to provide our names, addresses, etc or some sort of licensing/fee structure. Of course, I'm not really what you'd call an optimist already, and from my seven years in this business I'd be shocked if the government did something that actually made sense relating to the industry.

Think a while about this. TV's have the V-chip which effectively blocks programming that a parent would deem inappropriate for their children and it is totally ineffectual. Why, most parents don't want to go through the hassle of learning how to program the damn thing. Instead they would rather bitch that the government "needs" to do something. Every TV show is rated and rated for specific content.

Who is going to rate websites? Judging by what I read here....freesite builders who cant figure out which category to submit thier freesites to, certainly aren't to be counted on to rate their site for content. Do you really want to submit your sites to a rating group and wait months for them to tell you what your meta tag rating should be and then every time you update that site...go through the same process again....and again....and again.

Finally, child protection shouldn't be about a child running into an adult site once in a while. I'm old enough to remember running into my parents bedroom when no one was home so I could check out dad's stash of Playboys and ya my little winkie got hard and I'd pull it out and play with it too.

Child protection should be about getting rid of the vermin and predators out there who are looking to do actual, physical harm to them.

My solution for every convicted sexual deviant...nail their balls to a log, set the log a fire and hand them a butter knife.

[Linkster]

As far as tags - there already is a free solution thats been around forever called ICRA - http://www.icra.org/webmasters/
and most of us use it on our sites (at least the ones Ive seen) - and its instant - you just fill in a quick form and they give you a meta to insert.
Im not sure why anyone would want to take on anything else as this system is already used by the major search engines and it works.

[Bill]

Whoops, my bad, I meant ICRA when i was talking about tags. I don't know why, I've always confused the two.

It's the ICRA tag that's useless.

ASACP doesn't have tags to put on sites.

Sorry about that.