Open farski opened 8 years ago
What about using something like https://www.esrb.org/ratings/ratings_guide.aspx at both the show and episode level?
Existing reference for RSS:
It would be really helpful to know from those in a position to re-broadcast podcasts as part of any network whether "cleaning" content is worth my time. We're a liberal Democrat podcast and our listeners in that mode expect a certain amount of swearing!
I recommend a wider array of ratings options. Apple's current clean, explicit, and unmarked (seems to still work) aren't quite clear. I think something like film ratings (G, PG, R, and X) would be better. Or consider descriptive ratings like television shows ("LSV" = language, sex, violence).
Apple recently did a 180 on how their
itunes:explicit
tag works, to the extent that some potentially useful functionality was lost, though it's uncommon at this point for people to actually be making clean versions of explicit content.