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Re: Setting World Maturity Ratings

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Hi Amiryu,

A General rating for a world indicates that the world is safe for work, safe for young kids, etc. The age of the people who visit that world is of secondary importance.

If your world includes a spa where the intended attire provides the amount of coverage in your picture that world would need to have at least a Moderate rating. See coverage templates for General/Moderate ratings here: https://kitely.atlassian.net/wiki/displ ... Guidelines
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Each World Manager is responsible for managing his or her Virtual Worlds, and will be put in charge of controlling the activity of the Users who visit her or his Virtual Worlds ("Your Visitors").

A World Manager may designate access restrictions, in order to prevent certain Users from entering or being a part of his or her Virtual Worlds in any way ("Access Restrictions"). You hereby undertake that you shall proactively institute such Access Restrictions to comply with all applicable laws and prevent violations of these Terms by Your Visitors.
It is the world manager's responsibility to make sure people comply with our TOS in their world. You have direct control of what content you place and who you allow to build in your world. To minimize your risk do not offer public sandboxes, limit building in your worlds to people you trust and direct other people to build in the Kitely Merchants Sandbox.

As for people who enter your worlds and misbehave, it is your responsibility to promptly stop people once you become aware of their actions. You are not required by us to constantly monitor your worlds for violations. You are, however, required to take reasonable actions to make sure that you do not create an environment that encourages people to break our TOS. In other words, you shouldn't label a world as General while setting it up to be used for Moderate or Adult activities. If you are setting something for General use you need to be more proactive than if you set it to Moderate. If you set it to Adult you reduce your need for moderation and proactive action even further.

It's your choice how you wish to label your worlds as long as you comply with our TOS and maturity rating guidelines.
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Re: Setting World Maturity Ratings

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So I have a question. My sim is set at Moderate, but shows in-world as General. I gather in the thread most people are talking about not having Moderate as an option even though it's in the Kitely Maturity Ratings. The world page is the only place to check the rating?
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Hi Roswenthe,

At this time there are two places you need to define the world maturity rating, via the viewer and using the Access tab in the Manage World dialog which you open via your website account. Setting just the website will restrict inworld access but it will not change the maturity rating you see in the viewer. Changing the setting just in the viewer will restrict inworld access but will not change the setting in the website which will cause the world to be treated as if it only had the maturity rating that is defined in the website. For example, if the world is set to General in the website but to Adult via the viewer then it will show in everyone's public worlds page results but will block people who are not set as Adult from actually being able to enter the world. In order to comply with our terms of service you must always set the maturity rating in the website but we recommend that you set it inworld as well.

Please note that we'll eventually unify both these settings into a single maturity rating setting, we just haven't gotten around to doing that yet.
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OK, thanks, I found it in the viewer.
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I found where to change the maturity rating of my world in the region/estate settings. I changed my world to Adult. Here's what's interesting. My world is adult, but the setting of my avatar is Mature. When I went to enter my, now adult, world I got in with no problems. Is that the intended function? So that the owner can always access his/her world?

ETA: I should have waited until Ilan made his post. I now have everything set to Adult.
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Hi Sherrie,

In general we try to enable people to always be able to access their own worlds. When that can come in conflict with the website-defined access controls we prevent the user from changing the world maturity rating to something that exceeds his or her website-defined maturity rating. Once the inworld maturity rating and the one in our website are unified this type of logic will be applied to changes made via the viewer as well.
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<--sticks his head in the sand and hums quite loudly - "i can't hear you" = be damned if i will be turned into a policeman regulating others behavior - the whole forced morality issue is beyond stupid. It is not my duty, responsibility or interest to protect others children, I have had my own to protect and my goodness they grew up to be quite nice in spite of 9 million adult hits for the keyword "toy" that are sex sites. Oh, I should sue each and every one of these sex sites for exposing my 8 yr. old to unwanted images of raunch? Bahhhh, it is my responsibility to be sure my 8 yr old is not on the computer without adult supervision and a loving hand at the ready to move the mouse for him to the right direction. Parents are too lazy to keep a watchful eye out for their kids and decide what is appropriate for viewing however they are energetic enough to sue me or others?
Soo, i am a 60 year old man running around on skates using a 10 year old avi, I get kicked and banned from the sim for being too small. I turn around and there is a stud avi (cartoon btw), naked, asking each and every girl cartoon avi for sex (sex is when people touch and feel isn't it?) in local chat in a rather rude way. Turns out this stud is really a pimply faced 12 year old who lied about age when creating the account. He gets to stay in the sim.
This is how stupid the forced morality becomes trying to "protect" children. No one is protected from anything as it's just not possible to do. It is the sole responsibility of the parents of these children to monitor what they are seeing and doing on their private computer, not me or anyone else.
What is happening is fear of legal retribution hence all the disclaimers, painted underwear, don't show private parts (we can all look at our own anytime can't we) as they are so nasty and despicable. The end result is mass confusion trying to manage the unmanageable so I will stick my head in the sand and keep it there and pretend all this modesty and prudishness over cartoons is just a very bad dream.
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oopsee joseppe wrote:<--sticks his head in the sand and hums quite loudly - "i can't hear you" = be damned if i will be turned into a policeman regulating others behavior - the whole forced morality issue is beyond stupid. It is not my duty, responsibility or interest to protect others children, I have had my own to protect and my goodness they grew up to be quite nice in spite of 9 million adult hits for the keyword "toy" that are sex sites. Oh, I should sue each and every one of these sex sites for exposing my 8 yr. old to unwanted images of raunch? Bahhhh, it is my responsibility to be sure my 8 yr old is not on the computer without adult supervision and a loving hand at the ready to move the mouse for him to the right direction. Parents are too lazy to keep a watchful eye out for their kids and decide what is appropriate for viewing however they are energetic enough to sue me or others?
Soo, i am a 60 year old man running around on skates using a 10 year old avi, I get kicked and banned from the sim for being too small. I turn around and there is a stud avi (cartoon btw), naked, asking each and every girl cartoon avi for sex (sex is when people touch and feel isn't it?) in local chat in a rather rude way. Turns out this stud is really a pimply faced 12 year old who lied about age when creating the account. He gets to stay in the sim.
This is how stupid the forced morality becomes trying to "protect" children. No one is protected from anything as it's just not possible to do. It is the sole responsibility of the parents of these children to monitor what they are seeing and doing on their private computer, not me or anyone else.
What is happening is fear of legal retribution hence all the disclaimers, painted underwear, don't show private parts (we can all look at our own anytime can't we) as they are so nasty and despicable. The end result is mass confusion trying to manage the unmanageable so I will stick my head in the sand and keep it there and pretend all this modesty and prudishness over cartoons is just a very bad dream.
Thank you, thank you, Totally agree Opsee. Couldnt put it in any better way.

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Re: Setting World Maturity Ratings

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The maturity rating guidelines are there to allow as many people as possible to use Kitely at the same time without stepping on each others toes:

If a website contained content that isn't suitable for work or linked to such content without stating it isn't suitable for work you would avoid visiting that website from work. In Kitely suitable for work means General rated. If teachers can't decide what Kitely worlds are safe to bring children to then most parents will object to having Kitely used in the classroom. If parents can't trust that their teens won't be exposed to Adult content in Moderate rated worlds then they'll act to prevent their teenage children from using Kitely, the fact that porn sites are just a click away in their browser would be irrelevant. Many adults don't want to see adult content even in the privacy of their own homes, the Moderate rating exists in order to give them a place where they can enjoy themselves without the restrictions of a General-rated world. All these groups of people (and many that I didn't list) deserve to have places they can feel comfortable in and they need to have a simple way to decide what those places are before they visit them.

If your world can't be honestly categorized as safe for work then don't call it General. Call it Moderate or Adult, because that is what it is. I don't understand the insistence on calling something safe for school and the workplace when it isn't. The type of people who care about those things would only get annoyed about your world and complain about it being mislabeled. By calling it Moderate you're indicating it isn't suitable for their use. This has nothing to do with Kitely forcing its morality on you and everything to do with allowing other people to use Kitely without you forcing your morality on them. Label things correctly and each person can go to the worlds where they can feel comfortable in. Let's all just call things by their name. The maturity ratings guidelines are there to help remove confusion about what that name is.
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