Content Rating System

[kidmock]

Describe the problem to be solved I would like to be able to rate content loosely based on the MPAA or ESRB

Describe the solution you would like: I would like to enforce a rating system and by extension force moderation of videos based on content. The NSFW is nice but I don't think it adequately covers content rating

I'm thinking something like:

• Everyone - Safe for all ages
• Teen 13+ - May contain crude humor, mild violence and content not suitable for younger audiences
• Mature 17+ - May contain strong language, violence, gore, and sexual topics.
• Adult 18+ (current NSFW?)- May contain topics that are sexually explicit, prolong violence, and that may be otherwise disturbing to viewers.

Content creator would be required to "rate" their content based upon this criteria.

Viewers would be able to flag and/or report content that doesn't meet the criteria for moderators to re-classify.

Federated sites could choose what content ratings to replicate.

[test2a]

While I understand the kids and teens rating, the adult rating itself is too big in itself.

How do you differentiate between nsfw, conspiracy, and other subgroups?

Do we specify each one separately? Wouldnt that confuse the users because they would need to "choose"?

[kidmock]

I've always subscribed to keeping things as flat as possible and as deep as necessary.

I'm merely talking about content rating not content categorization. Over categorizing creates the paradox of choice. Going into subgroups kind of deviates into the genre realm which is already existing functionality.

Simple choices makes compliance easier to follow, review and enforce.

I'm not sure what all the "Offensive" categories are but I think it comes down to Language, Violence, Nudity, and Sex With degrees that range from Mild to Graphic.

So if we have:

• Mild Language

• Mild Violence

• Mild Nudity

• Mild Sex

• Graphic Language

• Graphic Violence

• Graphic Nudity

• Graphic Sex

Perhaps we could have the basic rating system as follows with the option to set advanced options above.

Whereas: Everyone = has no mildly or graphically offensive content Teen = May have mild language and mild violence and no nudity or sex Mature = May have graphic language and graphic violence but no graphic nudity or sex Adult = May have graphic nudity or sex

[test2a]

Quick question, what does lbry or vimeo or dailymotion or YouTube use? I have no accounts in any service so I dont have any idea of these

[kidmock]

I don't think they use anything and that's part of their problem.

Traditional media use either an embedded tag like Apple's Atom (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corespotlight/cssearchableitemattributeset/1616027-contentrating?language=occ)

While others use the MPAA/US-TV Ratings in .nfo files with tags like: (https://kodi.wiki/view/NFO_files/TV_shows)

Here's a couple of examples of Apple media files:

mediainfo Blue\ Bloods\ -\ S01E01\ -\ Pilot.mp4 | grep Content ContentType : TV Show ContentRating : us-tv|TV-14|500|

mediainfo Star Wars - Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)]$ mediainfo Star\ Wars\ -\ Episode\ IV\ -\ A\ New\ Hope\ (1977).mp4 | grep Content ContentType : Short Film ContentRating : mpaa|PG|200|

They use the US-MPAA and US-TV rating embedded in their metadata.

I'm kind of getting my cue from the content distributors with my suggestions. I know it's a little US centric. But other countries do similar things

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_content_rating_system

[Chocobozzz]

Thanks for reporting this issue, but this is a duplicate of https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/1588