Mature Content System "Upgrades"
RantAs $realitysquared[1] states in his journal, "In my personal opinion the sole purpose of a Mature Content filtering system is to keep the tagged content away from underage users."
I disagree.
Though it is[2] illegal for minors to be exposed to pornographic content, deviantART purports to police its galleries of such adult material.
The Mature Content filter as it was, therefore, was a division merely between those who preferred to avoid such content and those who sought it. It made no distinction as to whom should be restricted from viewing mature content, simply because it was not, I assumed, deviantART's place to instate policies that are crafted according to what people should do or should think.
Apparently I was wrong.
But the new Mature Content filter slays a large portion of the community that would view and provide valuable critique for adult content of what is — or most definitely should be — purely artistic in nature.
The new system is, in this respect, destructive. It is destructive to the already failing community that is deviantART, a community that professes to be one where artists can share and critique to better themselves and one another, but whose actual impression is one increasingly like MySpace.
The majority of people who view genuinely artistic mature content (and I refer here to visual content) outside an artistic context are too ignorant to realise that it is not pornography; these people should not be members of deviantART in the first place, and hence should be disallowed from viewing mature content.[3]
An age restriction on the mature content filtration system is detrimental to the health of the community, simply because it is an arbitrary restriction.
I rest my case.
[0] For both artistic inspiration and anatomy reference
[1] A deviant whom I respect and admire greatly
[2] I will not say "should be"
[3] If you want an example of a real art community, take a look at PixelJoint.
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As a courtesy to foreign members of dA, I try to speak in the native language of every artist on whose work I comment. I do my best on my own, but often I need to make use of online translators to assist me, so I apologise in advance for my mistakes!
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As a courtesy to foreign members of dA, I try to speak in the native language of every artist on whose work I comment. I do my best on my own, but often I need to make use of online translators to assist me, so I apologise in advance for my mistakes!
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