Speaking as the one who wrote in, yes I'd love those guides! But I recognize how much work it would be. Even a lighter level, like talking to parents who use these settings and summarizing their personal best practices, would be helpful.
Your Youtube "bitch bitch bitch" incident is a perfect example of the problems with any automated content-flagging system. The best settings in the world, either managed by myself or by a company like k-ID, are useless if the content itself isn't properly flagged.
Human-powered classification is useful. My kids aren't ready for R rated movies, and I trust the MPAA to flag things properly - they have people applying ratings to each individual film. Similarly, Apple Arcade is a human-curated collection of kid-friendly stuff. I'll let them install any of those apps. But human-powered classification doesn't scale. And when an algorithm or some other automated system is flagging content, at a certain scale it's destined to let stuff leak through.
I'm increasingly convinced that the only way to truly handle this is to watch/play things with my kids and do a qualitative analysis of what they're into & what they want to engage with. And that's exhausting, and leads to "no" as my default answer until a parent has the time & brainspace to dive in with them. I don't like it.
I think those guides would be a useful resource. As a parent who frequently sees questions about games and media posted to the local town parents group on FB, it would be the sort of article I could share as a resource. So it might also benefit Crossplay as an introduction to new readers. Though I have no meaningful insight on how effective it would actually be in growing your audience.
Yeah, unless Valve, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft all sit down and make a go at this together I'm not sure this would go anywhere. Without buy in from the companies this just turns into another competing standard. Which is too bad, it is a worthwhile Idea.
Agree that the art is very "/imagine girl looking at phone, in the style of pixar, --v6.0"
Also this seems like an interesting idea but I cannot imagine pulling this off in a universal, cross-platform way. Unless they used... the blockchain? (sorry sorry)
Speaking as the one who wrote in, yes I'd love those guides! But I recognize how much work it would be. Even a lighter level, like talking to parents who use these settings and summarizing their personal best practices, would be helpful.
Your Youtube "bitch bitch bitch" incident is a perfect example of the problems with any automated content-flagging system. The best settings in the world, either managed by myself or by a company like k-ID, are useless if the content itself isn't properly flagged.
Human-powered classification is useful. My kids aren't ready for R rated movies, and I trust the MPAA to flag things properly - they have people applying ratings to each individual film. Similarly, Apple Arcade is a human-curated collection of kid-friendly stuff. I'll let them install any of those apps. But human-powered classification doesn't scale. And when an algorithm or some other automated system is flagging content, at a certain scale it's destined to let stuff leak through.
I'm increasingly convinced that the only way to truly handle this is to watch/play things with my kids and do a qualitative analysis of what they're into & what they want to engage with. And that's exhausting, and leads to "no" as my default answer until a parent has the time & brainspace to dive in with them. I don't like it.
I think those guides would be a useful resource. As a parent who frequently sees questions about games and media posted to the local town parents group on FB, it would be the sort of article I could share as a resource. So it might also benefit Crossplay as an introduction to new readers. Though I have no meaningful insight on how effective it would actually be in growing your audience.
Yeah, unless Valve, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft all sit down and make a go at this together I'm not sure this would go anywhere. Without buy in from the companies this just turns into another competing standard. Which is too bad, it is a worthwhile Idea.
https://xkcd.com/927/
Agree that the art is very "/imagine girl looking at phone, in the style of pixar, --v6.0"
Also this seems like an interesting idea but I cannot imagine pulling this off in a universal, cross-platform way. Unless they used... the blockchain? (sorry sorry)