I feel like it's an author's responsibility to give warnings for these kinds of things, but I don't think a full-scale rating system is necessary. Or possible. Though it would be gratifying to know that calc gaming has become big enough that such a system is necessary.

Also, http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Apalpable&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

I think a rating system is silly.
Why?

1) It's a calculator and is therefore not enforced in any way. If you slap a MATURE rating on a game, guess what? Immature kids will still get the game (even more so than before). That's more traffic towards the adult material and away from the normal games.

2) Different standards between people, but that's just a reiteration of what's been said.

3) A rating system (especially on ticalc.org) will require users to register to download stuff. This (in ticalc's case) is a terrible idea.

I'M not sure why some people are so uptight about swearing, to be honest, no offense Compynerd. It's just a word, and the words darn/dawn/hell aren't even bad words. I was surprised when you told me you felt that Illusiat 13 was filled with swearing because I don't think it has that many. I think a rating system would be a bad idea, same for warnings about possible mild language, because of the points raised by other people above. I only would rate a game as mature if it really has an extreme amount of questionable content, personally, and such game wouldn't even make it to ticalc.org anyway. The current rating system that exists is that a game will get rejected from ticalc.org or taken down if it has a certain level of swearing/bad themes.

People are not going to censor their game just for one or two people out of 100. They'll just try like me to use some common sense and not make their RPG NPCs swear every 2 word or so, for example. And the rating system would be too much work, especially for games that are extremly hard.

Personally I will never put a warning about swearing in Illusiat 13 description, because unlike what you claimed to me in a PM, I do not feel it has enough swearing (if any at all) to warrant a warning.

As for the forums I don't want to censor people by disallowing swearing nor let anyone call someone out just for saying one bad word out of habit. It will make people even more scared of posting.

I think the storyline is more important that sensoring stuffs.

pff

1. Rating never work, it is just about parents getting what their kids want in order to get them to stfu and gtfo. (you would not beleive some of the things pre-schools have said to me )

2. Heh, I think people who know how to get games on their calcs are mature enough to handle some of the things you mentioned

as I said, this is just my view on it, so do not take it as fact

Lol that last one wasn't even bad, it's just that there was an unrelated program with a questionable name in the animated screenshot.

Yeah fortunately there aren't many such games around and usually if there is bad content it's generally not bad enough for the average user to be censored from ticalc.org. The only example of ticalc.org game and program that got rejected/taken off from ticalc.org for innapropriate content was Drug Wars and an ASCII porn program (the latter triggered the Ticalc.org CD controversy in 2001)