New content classification level
Time was, there was no content rating on Project Wonderful, but then people would say things like “I don’t want NSFW content on my site” and we said “Yes that is entirely reasonable” and made three rating tiers:
- C = safe for children
- SFW = safe for work
- NSFW = not safe for work
The NSFW tier didn’t include adult content though, mainly because we use PayPal as our payment processor and they put certain limits on what is allowable. This was unfortunate, because we have some amazing publishers who do more adult stuff, like Oglaf, and we had to have weird unfortunate compromises like “only put the ad boxes on pages where you can’t see the following body parts”. It was a difficult situation that didn’t really make anyone happy.
In the time since then, we’ve been able to have a few conversations with PayPal, and we’ve been able to expand the sort of content we accept. There’s now four rating tiers:
- C = safe for children
- SFW = safe for work
- NSFW = not safe for work
- ADULT = sexy stuff
First off: by default, all existing ad boxes are set NOT to accept adult content. This is something you need to explicitly opt in to. Without opting in, nothing adult will ever show up on your site. To opt in, you need to log in, go to “My ad boxes”, click on “Edit”, and change your approval settings.
If you do choose to opt in, you should know that not ALL adult content is allowed on Project Wonderful. There’s other networks for that. We’re not allowing things like cam sites, picture dumps, chat sites, etc. What we’re specializing in is illustration and stories: drawings, comics, ebooks, along with some other kinds of content. Be sure to check out our ratings guidelines to see exactly what’s allowed.
As always, thanks for making Project Wonderful so awesome!
