It's their site, and we agreed to The Rules and their enforcement of The Rules when we signed up.

However, given that this IS an adults-only site (one has to be 18 TO be here), it's interesting that there is a 'PG/PG-13' system in place.


According to MPAA guidelines:

"...PG Rating
A PG-rated film may not be suitable for children. The MPAA says a PG-rated should be checked out by parents before allowing younger children to see the movie. There could be some profanity, some violence, or brief nudity, however there will not be any drug use in a PG film.


"PG-13 Rating
PG-13 indicates there's material in the film that may not be suitable for children under the age of 13. A PG-13 movie could go 'beyond the PG rating in theme, violence, nudity, sensuality, language, adult activities or other elements, but does not reach the restricted R category.' The MPAA will give this rating to films with drug use or more than brief nudity, although the nudity in a PG-13 is not sexual in nature. In addition, the MPAA states 'there may be depictions of violence in a PG-13 movie, but generally not both realistic and extreme or persistent violence. A motion picture's single use of one of the harsher sexually-derived words, though only as an expletive, initially requires at least a PG-13 rating. More than one such expletive requires an R rating, as must even one of those words used in a sexual context.'"

http://movies.about.com/od/miscellanous/f/film-ratings.htm



If no one can be under 18 can be here, why the 'not-suitable-for-under-18-YO-eyes'?

Most likely because the Forum-Postings are accessible to the general public!

@ totage:

If it's as you suggest and it's because major advertisers are picky about where they'll place their ads, perhaps those major advertisers should think twice about placing their ads on adults-only websites, regardless of what type of adults-only services/entertainment they're providing. Otherwise, it looks a tad bit hypocritical.




In any event and as I said before, everyone agreed to PG-13 content when signing up, so it's a moot point.

Advertisers join publishing networks such as Google and give them their preferencse (such as no vulgar language) the network then distributes the ads on publishers sites (like Mingle). If Mingle displays an ad of an advertiser that didn't want their ad shown on a page with vulgar language and that page has a swear word, Mingle could get a TOS violation, losing not only the revenue from that ad, but their entire account on that network.

If Mingle were to list as an adult only site, we probably see porn ads, which I don't think they would want.

BTW, I'm not arguing or anything just stating how advertisers and money heavily influence the web.

I think the Mingle rules are okay. You can still get away with things that are deleted on other sites. I once said "Work your a$$ off" elsewhere, and it was deleted ..

Having to beat around the bush makes it fun. Sexual innuendo is more fun. And we've gotten away with quite some serious sexual innuendo here .. I can remember a few conversations .... phew!!

If everything was allowed, the feel of the site would change, not for the better.

Advertisers join publishing networks such as Google and give them their preferencse (such as no vulgar language) the network then distributes the ads on publishers sites (like Mingle). If Mingle displays an ad of an advertiser that didn't want their ad shown on a page with vulgar language and that page has a swear word, Mingle could get a TOS violation, losing not only the revenue from that ad, but their entire account on that network.

If Mingle were to list as an adult only site, we probably see porn ads, which I don't think they would want.

BTW, I'm not arguing or anything just stating how advertisers and money heavily influence the web.

This isn't a cheap-shot at the rules. I'm just throwing out a question -

How does everyone on here feel about the blocking of "swear words" on this site by replacing them with asterisks?

Do you feel it's age-appropriate given that you have to be 18 to be on here? Does it impede your ability to say what you want to as freely, or does the restriction force you to reconsider the language you use?

Give me your feels, folks.