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Qualitipedia (commonly known as the Miraheze Reception Wikis) is a former network of eight reception wikis now a single wiki that criticized or praised various forms of media. Despite the common name, they were actually created on FANDOM back in 2013, with the first wiki being Crappy Games Wiki. Afterward, other wikis were created, such as Awesome Games Wiki, Terrible TV Shows Wiki, Greatest Movies Wiki, and Awful Movies Wiki, before being forced to move to Miraheze in September 2018 after FANDOM shut them down due to policy changes. After moving to Miraheze, the network suffered from multiple controversies that permanently damaged it and Miraheze's reputation. Qualitipedia was eventually shut down on September 26, 2022, following a successful RfC; [1] afterwards, multiple revivals were created, most notably New Qualitipedia on an obscure wiki hosting service named Telepedia. [2]

Overall, due to toxicity and a declining userbase, Qualitipedia officially shut down on a sour note 9 years after its first inception on FANDOM.

• 1.1 Overall
• 1.2 The Outcast Network era (2019-2020)
• 1.3 Post-Outcast Network era (2020-2021)
• 1.4 Allistayrian era (2020-2022)
• 1.5 DuchessTheSponge era (2021)
• 1.6 The Final Months (2022)
• 1.7 CJ's New Qualitipedia (Mid-November 2023-present)
• 2 Redeeming Qualities
• 3 Reception
• 4 References

Why It's Low Quality Nowadays

• They tend to make a lot of petty, idiotic and nonsensical reasons why something is good or bad, which makes the pointers look unfunny, spiteful and can also make the pages age poorly with some people.
• They tend to be massive hypocrites, as if they're simply reminding the userbase to follow Miraheze's rules, but yet they have also constantly violated Miraheze's policies, such as harassing people with a different opinion, and the staff and the stewards of the Miraheze wikis did absolutely nothing to stop them.
• It's not hard to get brainwashed from their Anti-SJW belief, as they can convince an average user to become an anti-SJW or pro-Gamergate thanks to their pages.
• The network community is just awful, with a lot of users acting very immature, sciovinist, arrogant and toxic. The worst offenders had to be the staff, who kept abusing their power and making poor decisions, most of which results in a lot of drama. But not only they see themself as reliable and centrist! Watch out they incross the fingers behind
• Even if they were well-written, some of the pages were laughably bad and crudely written , especially the ones made during The Outcast Network era.
• For example, things related to cancel culture, controversy, or censorship are often classified as bad qualities, even though they may not count as ones due to these claims coming off as spiteful and unaffecting the quality of the source that it is talking about, even though some can actually be worth noting.
• The worst offender of this has to be the Pokèmon page the Best Shows & Episodes Wiki, as many of the bad qualities on the page were nothing more than petty complaints about the show's controversy, which is especially bad due to Allistayrian's troublesome administration and the userbase treating popular opinions as facts.
• On that topic, because of how nitpicky these pages are, some pages can even feel like attack articles, like with the latter two wikis as mentioned above.
• The wikis would occasionally defend media that's typically medicore-at-best. For example, the Best Shows & Episodes Wiki defended Barney & Friends , Hannah Montana , other Disney Channel sitcoms, Dora the Explorer and the later seasons of Sesame Street . This is despite the former three having mixed-to-negative reviews—and also despite the fact that Hannah Montana has a 5.3 on IMDb while Dora the Explorer has a 4.3—going so far as to revert edits that list HM as "a bad show" on the Disney Channel [7] and It's A Laugh Productions, Inc. [8] pages. The Barney & Friends page was also deleted as soon as it put on Terrible TV Shows Wiki for "being a biased hate page", despite the show having a lot of negative reviews as well and despite the accuracy of the "Reception" header.
• This also not only contradicts, but also nullifies the whole point of what Qualitipedia is saying, because the wikis are supposed to be written in the same exact point of view as the public's, whether or not the reception goes back-and-forth over time. The wikis are basically supposed to shun these shows based on what their reception says, but they instead just defend them anyways, even if they do see them as "bias".
• The reboot wiki, known as New Qualitipedia, is no better, since the wiki would only carry the same issues from Miraheze had on to Telepedia, as even the founder of said wiki farm, Original Authority, is aware of NQP ruining Telepedia's reputation just like what the old wikis did to Miraheze. Because of that, it has got to the point where he even warned them that he would close down the wiki if they continue to cause more problems on the platform. [9]
• Meanwhile in the Companyball wiki.The Mirahezeball page have a sensical negative opinion about the network that it making looks bad

The Outcast Network era (2019-2020)

• The group has proven to be irresponsible, as one of the worst cases of doxxing happened during their handling of Qualitipedia. In March 2019, a user named Zenko (now called Vos) joined the wikis and wanted to contribute peacefully; however, she found herself constantly involved in drama, which was the fault of a user named Se, who wouldn't stop annoying her. Afterward, a page about Zenko mocking her in the same vein as Encyclopedia Dramatica was made on Fun Shitposting Wiki, which she vandalized because it contained her personal info. In other words, they doxxed her just for the sake of being "satirical" . Despite being in the right doing that, Zenko was unfairly hated and later added to the Unfavorable Wikis and Users Wiki ; in 2022, SuperStreetKombat mentioned that there were rumors that she committed suicide, which were thankfully untrue.
• They once featured a small YouTuber on Atrocious YouTubers Wiki just because they made a poorly-written page of another bad small YouTuber on Amazing YouTubers Wiki (though it was later unfeatured). [10]
• They even featured this page, despite being one of the most popular and greatest YouTubers at the time. The page itself is also biased and poorly-written, so much so that it makes you wonder why it got featured in the first place. [11]
• ElectricDragon505 (AniMat) (2016-Present); imported on Rotten Websites Wiki titled Mat Brunet (2016-present) [12]
• Vailskibum94 (imported on Terrible TV Shows Wiki)
• IULITMx; imported on Crappy Games Wiki) [13]

Post-Outcast Network era (2020-2021)

• While this doesn't seem bad at first glance, it ended up contributing to even more drama then before.
• The infamous Celebtards [14] [15] and Celebsmarts [16] pages. No words can describe how awful these pages are and also they give false information.
• This problem got even worse in the New Qualitipedia, as a lot of these glaring flaws started getting lots of attention, causing even more drama.
• To officially form the rebrand, Allistayrian (formerly known as Zeephare), a former admin of the network, decided to do what was called the Great Purge, essentially deleting every existing page on Qualitipedia. This received universal backlash and many people retired.

Allistayrian era (2020-2022)

• Allistayrian was an overall strict admin with insanely high standards who would delete every page she [lower-alpha 1] would consider poorly-written even if said pages are actually decent, especially from January to April 2021. After returning to Qualitipedia in June 2021, however, she improved and undeleted most of the decent pages.

DuchessTheSponge era (2021)

• He caused some infamous opinion wars, a good example being the Spongebob page on TTS&EW. [17]
• During this era on Qualitipedia, he made a few false accusations of some users such as Crappy Games Wiki founder of being a pedophile after creating an NSFW blog about hentai, which resulted in his retirement, and he also banned SuperStreetKombat from SephSpace for supposedly "defending the no custom heading rule", restoring the YouTube page on Rotten Websites, and removing Nintendo from Crappy Games Wiki's forbidden list, which also resulted in SSK leaving Miraheze for a while until he came back two weeks later.
• He was also responsible for custom headers that added absolutely nothing to the pages and only caused drama and edit wars, which caused them to be banned many times, although for some reason their ban was revoked.
• Speaking of the Websites Wikis, he also deleted the YouTube page on Rotten Websites Wiki and prohibited it from ever being recreated simply because the website is "liked by a lot".
• These ways also became pointless once two new bureaucrats arrived, as they gave better ways to improve Qualitipedia despite still failing.
• The logos of the wikis that he made were laughably ugly and bad, as it's just some text lazily slapped on the bottom of the cliparts which is unproffesional.
• He was one of the biggest responsible for shutting down Qualitipedia due to his disastrous administration; after he wrongly accused Grust of pedophilia and SuperStreetKombat of the things listed above, no one even wanted him to be part of the staff anymore.Making him an incompetent admin

The Final Months (2022)

• Ever since Allistayrian retired, a lot of drama happened that severely damanged and killed Qualitipedia.
• Certain admins had secretly attempted to kill Qualitipedia, with no new idea of improvement and barely any support like askimg the stewards for shut down the network. [ citation needed ]
• In August 2022, in the Qualitipedia Discord server, a bot created by Bukkit, a former admin of the network, ghostpinged everyone in the server, causing them to spam nonsense in the chat. As a result, DeerGazer (then known as TigerBlazer [ citation needed ] ), another former admin of the network, snapped and then left the Discord server and announced to retire for good, even though they already retired in April (before making a full retirement blog when the RfC to close Qualitipedia was open). After that happened, many people retired, which not only saddened many people but also led to damage control without the help of many useful admins.
• In early September of 2022, Bukkit and Marxo Grouch demoted SuperStreetKombat for promoting a few users to moderators with "no consensus", despite there actually being one, which was unfair considering that they could've warned him to stop instead of discussing his demotion in a private Discord server beforehand.

CJ's New Qualitipedia (Mid-November 2023-present)

• This reboot is just as bad as the original Qualitipedia, since it only retains the same amount of drama, opinion bashing, poorly written pages, and all of the other problems as listed below.
• A lot of users reported to be wrongfully banned indefinitely due to the Abuse filter being poorly implemented. Thankfully, Original Authority, the owner of Telepedia, fixed a bit the filter and unbanned those who were unfairly banned.
• Add to that, it caused quite a stir because they continued to copy pages from there for a while, and as if that wasn't enough, they even go far as to ban you for doing so, like what happened to one user just because he did so even though he did not attack anyone or any page on this wiki.
• Admins can take a long time to respond to trolls, which resulted in some admins having to be quickly promoted (Such as Raidarr) in order to keep the wiki intact, due to a troll raid.
• This also led to drama as well as edit wars between users and even staff.
• The Mature template (and sometimes the NSFL template) often gets added to pages that don't even need it such as a few Teen Titans Go and Ed, Edd, n' Eddy pages.
• On top of that, there was even a "Caution" template, which is very pointless because served the exact same purpose as the "Mature" version before the former template was eventually deleted.
• Speaking of other overused phrases, ones such as "cringe/cringy/cringeworthy/cringe-inducing" and "x started/ended on a good/bad/decent/high/sour note" on every season starters and enders listed on episodes, can be overused to death. The same thing goes for the amount of bias and nitpicky information as well, some of which hasn't even been removed yet.
• Due to excessive vandalism, an email address is now required to edit any page after December 2023, even though the wiki was originally free for registered users to edit without the need of adding their email addresses to their profiles.
• A small group of former users, Szczypak2005, Brazillian User, Robin1020th, and ChessGuy66, who were initially well-behaved users, started to create chaos by demanding that CJWorld be demoted for the "no copy-paste" rule, vandalizing pages, creating sockpuppet accounts, as well as creating their own hidden wikis that they claimed to be "better" than this wiki, which nearly gave New Qualitipedia a bad reputation for a while until at least some of the issues were later resolved.
• Despite having a page about sources that are/aren't reliable, a myriad of pages have videos and references of sources (most notably Mr. Enter or IGN) that are on the page's blacklist, which pretty much contradicts what it says about who should or shouldn't be considered reliable when documenting the reception of a game, movie, show, etc., and thus contributes to how poorly written these pages are.
• They're even banning redeeming qualities from works created by AI, even though it's not even inappropriate in any way. Sure, AI has started to become controversial these days, but even then, that doesn't really count as an excuse on banning redeeming qualities.
• They've also continuted to ban media like The Loud House Movie and the last two Star Wars movies just for being "too divisive" despite the fact that these same pages are already on existing on living wikis like the Okay Movies Wiki in which these pages have barely caused any drama from there.
• They can also be way too soft towards stubborn users and often side with them for whatever reason such as when MisterSandManAU was adding his own personal bias to a few pages or not letting anyone help him with his sandboxes and yet most of the staff members or even a few users just let that slide.

Redeeming Qualities

• It used to be good back when it was on FANDOM and during its first months on Miraheze in 2018.
• Antoons [18]
• The wacky world of Tex Avery
• The Loud House (season 4-present) [19]
• Family Guy (season 8-present) [20]
• Teen titans Go!
• 13 Reasons Why [21]
• Ren and Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" [22]
• Tomorrow's Pioneers [23]
• Boku no Pico [24]
• The day that my butt whent psycho
• Tom and Jerry
• Looney toons
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Teen Titans
• Happy tree friends
• Mickey Mouse
• Shawn the Sheep
• Steven Universe
• The Angry Video Game Nerd
• Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition [25]
• Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) [26]
• Rovio (2016-present)
• Hong Kong 97
• Action 52 [27]
• Five nights at freddy's fan games
• Balan Wonderworld [28]
• Popeye(2021)
• Snow White and the Seven Clever Boys
• LJN [29]
• PETA Browser Games [30]
• Mario Forever [31]
• Super Mario Bros. [32]
• Fallout: New Vegas [33]
• Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville [34]
• Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2
• Angry Birds
• Super Smash Bros Ultimate
• The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
• Disney Epic Mickey
• Canis Canem edit
• Pokémon Diamond and Pearl [35]
• The Smurfs [36]
• Cuties (despite once having redeeming qualities on the page) [37]
• Leaving Neverland [38]
• Chicken Little
• Home on the range
• The Super Mario Bros Movie (1993)
• Adventures of Buck Wild
• Norm of the North
• 2001: A Space Odyssey [39]
• The Angry Birds Movie
• The Fox and the Hound
• Fantasia and Fantasia 2000
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Toy story,Toy story 2 ,Toy story 3 and Toy story 4
• Madagascar,Madagascar 2 and Madagascar 3
• Shrek and Shrek 2
• Twitter [40]
• YouTube (2017-present) [41]
• Common Sense Media [42]
• All about explores
• False cheatin sites
• 4chan [43]
• Emu paradise
• Encyclopedia SpongeBobia
• Oska software
• The Cat in the Hat
• Horton hears a who
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone
• While the community is incredibly toxic as mentioned in WISN#4, there are also a lot of good users here, even if they did make some controversial decisions, although most of them either retired, became inactive, were about to leave the site.
• At least some of biased page were thankfully removed in late 2021 and 2022, especially on Crappy Games Wiki.
• And speaking of Vic's innocence, Qualitipedia also were in full support of Michael Jackson's innocence regarding his pedophilia controversy and are against Leaving Neverland.
• New Qualitipedia is an improvement over the original wikis (even if it's not much better), especially considering they have more centrist-based views and the usage of more constructive terms.
• They at least made SuperStreetKombat a moderator after arbitrarily demoting him.

The Qualitipedia wikis were criticized for the same reasons, including treating popular opinion as fact and the lack of qualifications for whether a product is "good" or "bad"; [44] [45] despite this, there are some users who were upset when it was shut down but understood why the shutdown happened. [46]

• ↑ Requests for Comment/Closing Qualitipedia - Qualitipedia (archived). Accessed 15 March 2024.
• ↑ Wiki requests queue | Meta Wiki . Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Pound Puppies (1986) - Terrible Shows & Episodes Wiki (archived). Accessed 20 March 2024.
• ↑ Comgás (As Aventuras de Gui & Estopa) - Terrible Shows & Episodes Wiki (archived). Accessed 20 March 2024.
• ↑ Funimation (2019-present) - Terrible Shows & Episodes Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ /snow/ - Waffle crew / DCA thread . Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Disney Channel (1983-2008, 2017-present): Difference between revisions | Qualitipedia . Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ It's A Laugh Productions, Inc.: Difference between revisions | Qualitipedia . Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ User talk:Original Authority | Meta Wiki . Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Atrocious YouTubers Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ 11.0 11.1 MrBeast (2012-2016) - Atrocious YouTubers Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Mat Brunet (2016-present) - Rotten Websites Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ IULITMx - Crappy Games Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Celebtards - Terrible TV Shows Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Celebdumb - Terrible Shows & Episodes Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Celebsmarts - Best Shows & Episodes Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ All public logs - Terrible Shows & Episodes Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Antoons - Terrible Shows & Episodes Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ The Loud House (season 4-present) - Terrible Shows & Episodes Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Family Guy (season 8-present) - Terrible Shows & Episodes Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ 13 Reasons Why - Terrible Shows & Episodes Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Ren and Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Tomorrow's Pioneers - Terrible Shows & Episodes Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Boku no Pico - Terrible Shows & Episodes Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition - Crappy Games Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) - Crappy Games Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Action 52 - Crappy Games Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Balan Wonderworld - Crappy Games Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ LJN - Crappy Games Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ PETA browser games - Crappy Games Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Mario Forever - Awesome Games Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Super Mario Bros. - Awesome Games Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Fallout: New Vegas - Awesome Games Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville - Awesome Games Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Diamond and Pearl Pokémon Diamond and Pearl - Awesome Games Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ The Smurfs - Awful Movies Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Cuties - Awful Movies Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Leaving Neverland - Awful Movies Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ 2001: A Space Odyssey - Greatest Movies Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Twitter - Rotten Websites Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ YouTube (2017-present) - Rotten Websites Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ Common Sense Media - Rotten Websites Wiki (archived). Accessed 10 March 2024.
• ↑ 4chan - Rotten Websites Wiki (archived)
• ↑ Miraheze Reception Wikis are Rotten Websites by SMG4Nerd4591 on DeviantArt . Accessed 11 May 2024.
• ↑ I hope Miraheze kicks the Reception Wikis off their platform. : r/rant . Accessed 11 May 2024.
• ↑ R.I.P Qualitipedia 2013-2022 by Fakemon1290 on DeviantArt . Accessed 11 May 2024.
• ↑ Allistayrian came out as a transgender woman in 2022. [ citation needed ]
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Many families are finding it increasingly difficult to find appropriate TV shows for their children’s age group.

More often than not, you come across media that is deemed “age-appropriate,” but it ends up containing content you’re not comfortable with.

I’ve rounded up the best three websites that are designed to “shine a light on the world of popular entertainment, while giving families the essential tools they need to understand, navigate, and impact the culture in which they live.” (Pluggedin.com)

Why are age-appropriate media reviews important?

People, families specfically, are wanting more detailed information about the content that’s really in mainstream movies, videos, television episodes and games. The entertainment industry ratings will only tell you so much, oftentimes glazing over some pretty important details.

The 3 websites listed below go much deeper, diving headfirst into content and the meaning behind it, so you can feel rest-assured as a parent trying to navigate this media-crazed world!

Family-friendly TV and movie ratings

The 3 websites below are very popular for finding honest ratings and reviews. They’re not Catholic-specific, but used among many Catholic and faith-based families.

1.) CommonSenseMedia.org

This is by far one of the most popular websites for TV show and movie reviews for children. Common Sense Media has been in the business since 2003, and is highly-trusted for their honest reviews of age-appropriate media.

“Our kids are on the front lines of a digital revolution. Devices, social networks, and media are changing childhood in radical ways. We all want kids to grow up healthy and happy as the world accelerates around them. Common Sense has helped hundreds of millions of parents, teachers, and policymakers navigate this accelerating landscape. Today, our mission to ensure kids’ digital well-being is more relevant and vital than ever.” CommonSenseMedia.org

2.) Kids-In-Mind.com

According to Kids In Mind,

“The purpose of kids-in-mind.com is to provide parents and other adults with objective and complete information about a film’s content so that they can decide, based on their own value system, whether they should watch a movie with or without their kids, or at all. It’s like a food labeling system which tells you what a food item contains. That’s it. We make no judgments about what is good or bad — or anything else. Indeed, we do not “condemn,” “critique” or “criticize” movies. And we don’t “praise” or “recommend” movies either. We advance no “beliefs” and we do not “preach” anything. We are not affiliated with any political party, any cultural or religious group, or any ideology. The only thing we advocate is responsible, engaged parenting.”

Sounds good to me!

3.) PluggedIn.com

Plugged In is actually a branch off of Focus on the Family, which is a Christian-based family website.

“Plugged In looks at films through a biblical worldview filter, keeping families—especially those with children in the home—ultimately in mind. Realizing the MPAA’s ratings system is greatly lacking (and often untrustworthy), we strive to be reliable “information providers,” highlighting both the positive and negative content elements, a requisite for discerning individuals regarding the making of wise entertainment choices. While providing a numerical rating for each movie and varying colors of caution for broad age ranges in an effort to help categorize where a film generally stands within the cultural context, we refrain from telling people to view or not view a specific film. Instead we outline content in categories such as “sexual,” “drug and alcohol,” “violence,” “crude or profane language,” “spiritual,” etc., then provide summation and perspective for that content, equipping families (and individuals) with information they can draw upon to assist in making media decisions.”

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So there you have it! 3 trustworthy websites to help you make informed decisions on the television shows and movies your children are watching. What do you think? Are these websites helpful for you? My children are still a little young to get into big-name movies and TV shows, but I’ll definitely keep these websites in my back pocket for when they’re a little older.

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Common Sense Media ( CSM ) is a non-profit organization that "provides education and advocacy to families to promote safe technology and media for children." [3] [4] [5] [6]

Founded by Jim Steyer in 2003, Common Sense Media reviews books , movies, TV shows , video games, apps, music, and websites and rates them in terms of age-appropriate educational content, positive messages/role models, violence, sex and profanity , and more for parents making media choices for their children. Common Sense Media has also developed a set of ratings that are intended to gauge the educational value of videos, games, and apps. The nonprofit's "Learning Ratings" attempt to assess different types of learning qualities within various forms of media.

Donations from foundations and individuals and fees from media partners finance Common Sense Media. Today, the organization distributes its content to more than 100 million US homes via partnerships with a variety of traditional and online media companies. Common Sense Media describes itself as "the nation’s largest membership organization dedicated to improving kids’ media lives". [3] By 2016, the organization had over 65 million unique users and worked with more than 275,000 educators across the United States. [7] In 2016, Charlie Rose reported that Common Sense Media was the United States largest non-profit dedicated to children's issues. [8]

• 1 Early history
• 2 Entertainment reviews
• 3.1 Digital passport
• 3.2 Graphite
• 4.1 Online privacy
• 4.2 Violent video games
• 4.3 Media and child health
• 6 References

Early history [ ]

After founding JP Kids, an educational media company for children, and Children Now, a national child advocacy and media group, Jim Steyer founded Common Sense Media in 2003. In an interview with the New York Times , Steyer said he intended to “create a huge constituency for parents and children in the same way that Mothers Against Drunk Driving or the AARP has done." The group received $500,000 in seed money from a group of donors including Charles Schwab, George Roberts, and James Coulter. [3]

To assess parents’ concern about their children’s media habits, Common Sense Media commissioned a poll, which found that “64 percent [of parents with children aged 2–17] believed that media products in general were inappropriate for their families. It said that 81 percent expressed concern that the media in general were encouraging violent or antisocial behavior in children.” The polling firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, said that “only one out of five interviewed ‘fully trusted' the separate industry-controlled ratings systems for music, movies, video games and television.” [3]

Entertainment reviews [ ]

Common Sense Media reviews thousands of movies, TV shows, music, video games, apps , web sites and books. Based on developmental criteria, the reviews provide guidance regarding each title’s age appropriateness, as well as a “content grid” that rates particular aspects of the title including educational value , violence , sex, gender messages and role models, and more. For each title, Common Sense Media indicates the age for which a title is either appropriate or most relevant. An overall five-star quality rating is also included, as are discussion questions to help families talk about their entertainment. In addition to Common Sense Media's traditional rating system, they also offer a set of learning based ratings, which are designed to determine complex educational values. [9] [10]

Common Sense Media partners with a number of media companies that distribute the organization’s free content to more than 100 million homes in the United States. According to Common Sense Media’s website, the organization has content distribution contracts with Road Runner, TiVo , Yahoo!, Comcast , Time Warner Cable, DIRECTV , Disney , NBC Universal , Netflix , Best Buy , Google , AOL/Huffington Post, Fandango, Trend Micro, Verizon Foundation, Nickelodeon , Bing , Cox Communications , Kaleidescape, AT&T , and NCM . [11] The organization’s current rating system differs from the system used by the Motion Picture Association of America and the Entertainment Software Rating Board. It has received positive support from some parents, and was singled out by US President Barack Obama as a model for using technology to empower parents. [12] [13] Common Sense Media began allowing studios to use their ratings and endorsements in order to promote family-friendly movies in 2014. The first film to use the endorsement was Disney’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day . [14]

Education [ ]

Common Sense Media has played a role in influencing billions of dollars in government spending on education-related technologies including classroom broadband access and various learning apps. In April 2015, they launched the national advocacy effort, Common Sense Kids Action, to push for certain state and federal efforts to bolster education for children. [15] As of 2016, the Common Sense Education program had grown to include over 300,000 member teachers in approximately 100,000 schools. [16]

In 2009, CSM partnered with Harvard University and the organization Global Kids to organize a three-way communication with parents, teenagers, and educators about issues faced in the online world. [12]

Common Sense has 2 free education programs for schools and other organizations to use with students and parents. The goal of these resources is to help young people learn how to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly in today's ever-changing digital media world. More than 75,000 schools and over 158,000 educators around the world are using these resources. [17]

The first product is a Parent Media and Technology Education Program that was launched in late 2008. The program includes a comprehensive library of resources, like tip sheets, workshop slides and script, videos, and discussion guides that educators can use to engage and educate parents about technology issues ranging from media violence and commercialism to cyberbullying and cellphone etiquette.

The second product, launched in 2009, is a K-12 Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum consisting of more than 60 lesson plans, student handouts, videos and interactive components that span three topic areas: Safety and Security, Digital Citizenship, and Research and Information Literacy. The curriculum was informed by research done by Howard Gardner's GoodPlay Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

The resources were developed with support from many foundations, including the Sherwood, MacArthur , and Hewlett Foundations, which enables Common Sense to offer these products to educators for free.

Digital passport [ ]

In 2012, CSM released its "Digital Passport," an online curriculum designed to teach children how to safely and responsibly navigate the Internet. The courses can be accessed for free by classroom teachers, who are then able to monitor their students' progress. Digital passport lessons are presented as games that reward progress with badges. [18]

Graphite [ ]

In 2013 CSM launched Graphite, an online resource for teachers that allows them to review and rate educational technology. The project is supported by Chicago philanthropist Susan Crown and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates ' bgC3 . [19]

Advocacy issues [ ]

Online privacy [ ].

Common Sense Media supported the U.S. Department of Commerce's creation of an "online privacy policy", which would include a "Privacy Bill of Rights" and would make clear which types of personal information companies are allowed to keep on clients. [20] It has also called for updates to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) rules to ensure that they keep pace with changes in technology since the law was passed in 1998 – as documented by Common Sense Media in a report to the Federal Trade Commission as part of a review of the law. [21]

The organization also helped Massachusetts Representative Edward Markey and Texas Representative Joe Barton draft legislation that required websites aimed at children under 13 to obtain parental permission before collecting personal information. According to the Wall Street Journal , the group also wanted websites to feature an "eraser button" that would allow children and teens to delete information that they’ve posted online about themselves. The group also favored a ban on "behavioral marketing" to children—ads targeted at children based on their online activities. [22]

In 2004, CSM pushed for the passing of California’s "Eraser Bill". As of June 2006, social media websites must allow California children under age 18 to remove their own postings. [23] The same year, they advocated the passing of California Senate Bill 1177, which prohibits the sale and disclosure of schools' online student data. The bill also forbids targeted ads based on school information and the creation of student profiles when not used for education purposes. [24]

Violent video games [ ]

Common Sense Media played a major role in the passage of the 2005 California law criminalizing the sale of violent video games to minors. The organization submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court regarding the case Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (formerly Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association ). [25] They published a survey, conducted by Zogby International, which asked 2100 parents whether or not they supported the "video game ban bill" – CA Law AB 1793; results showed that 72% of the respondents expressed support for the bill, and another 75% held negative views of the video game industry when it comes to how they protect children from violent video games. [26]

On August 12, 2006, Common Sense Media protested to the Federal Trade Commission about the ESRB's rating downgrade of a revised version of Manhunt 2 from "Adults Only" to "Mature". It protested on the basis that the revised version of the game, which was censored to prevent the game from remaining banned in both countries, was still banned in the UK via the ratings given by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). They also noted that players could still play a "leaked uncensored version" of Manhunt 2 on modded PlayStation 2 , as Take-Two Interactive mentioned. The organization asked the FTC to launch a federal investigation into the ESRB rating process, citing the wide availability of the leaked version and the damage to children that the censored version still had. [27]

Questioning whether CSM media had begun functioning as a lobbying group rather than advocacy group the Los Angeles Times called Common Sense Media "one of the most zealous voices when it comes to encouraging state legislation limiting the sale of ultra-violent games to minors and was "splitting hairs" regarding the difference between lobbying and advocacy in its efforts. [4]

Media and child health [ ]

Common Sense Media participated in the FCC's Child Obesity Taskforce in April 2006 and hosted Beyond Primetime , a panel discussion and conference on issues related to children and media, featuring lead executives from the nation’s top media. [28]

In June 2006, Common Sense Media and The Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health released a white paper , which outlines the ways that media exposure can impact children's health. The paper evaluated 173 media-related studies from the past 28 years and concluded that "In 80% of the studies, greater media exposure is associated with negative health outcomes for children and adolescents." [29]

In October 2006, Common Sense Media released a white paper compiled from existing research on body image perceptions in children and teens. The paper states more than half of boys as young as 6 to 8 think their ideal weight is thinner than their current size and that children with parents who are dissatisfied with their bodies are more likely to feel that way about their own. [30]

In September 2017, Common Sense Media released a study which it developed in collaboration with the University of Southern California ’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism focused on families in both Japan and America and technology use. Surveys of families in the United States were compared to surveys of Japanese families and found that both countries struggle with the impact of technology on family life and relationships. [31]

Common Sense Media released a PSA with Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in 2017 called Device Free Dinner which featured Will Ferrell as a distracted dad at the dinner table, in order to raise awareness for responsible technology and media usage. [32]

Research [ ]

Common Sense Media's Program for the Study of Media and Children provides data relating to the developmental influence of technology on children. [33] [34]

References [ ]

• ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Common Sense Media – Company Profile" . LinkedIn . Retrieved December 25, 2010 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 [1] , NYT , May 5, 2003. Accessed Dec 15, 2011.
• ↑ 4.0 4.1 Pham, Alex (September 10, 2010). "Common Sense Media: Advocate or lobbyist?" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved December 25, 2010 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ Kimberly Palmer (16 April 2014). "How to Protect Kids From Powerful Advertising" . USN . Retrieved 31 July 2014 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ Emily Siner (7 November 2013). "Facebook Takes On Cyberbullies As More Teens Leave Site" . NPR . Retrieved 31 July 2014 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ "Our Mission" . Common Sense Media . Retrieved August 18, 2016 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ "The Steyers" . Charlie Rose. December 15, 2016 . Retrieved January 25, 2017 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ Kamenetz, Anya. "Transforming The Market For Kids' Media By Rating Its Educational Value" . Fast Company . Retrieved September 17, 2012 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ "About Our Ratings" . Common Sense Media . Retrieved December 11, 2011 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ "Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)" . Common Sense Media . Retrieved December 25, 2010 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ 12.0 12.1 Rosen, Judith (February 13, 2010). "Common Sense Raises Issues at B&N" . Publishers Weekly . Retrieved December 25, 2010 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ "About Ratings" . Common Sense Media . Retrieved 20 April 2011 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ Cieply, Michael (5 October 2014). "Movie Watchdog Group Gives Out Its First Seal of Approval" . NYTimes.com . The New York Times Company . Retrieved 29 April 2015 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ Singer, Natasha (26 April 2015). "Turning a Children's Rating System Into an Advocacy Army" . nytimes.com . The New York Times Company . Retrieved 14 June 2015 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ "Digital Compass, Common Sense Education's Digital Citizenship Student Interactive for 6th-8th Graders, Named 2016 Best Website for Teaching & Learning by AASL" . Common Sense Media. June 28, 2016 . Retrieved August 18, 2016 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ "Digital Literacy Curriculum Available as Free iBooks Textbooks" . EdNet Insight. 1 March 2014 . Retrieved 15 August 2014 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ Noguchi, Sharon (August 27, 2012). "Training Tomorrow's Netizens" . Silicon Valley Mercury News . Retrieved September 17, 2012 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ Toppo, Greg (26 August 2013). "Yelp for teachers: new site Graphite launches" . usatoday.com . Gannett Company, Inc . Retrieved 25 April 2015 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ Albanesius, Chloe (December 16, 2010). "Commerce Dept. Unveils Online Privacy Plan" . PC Magazine . Retrieved December 25, 2010 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ (PDF) Common Sense Comments on Children's Online Privacy Protection (Report). Common Sense Media. 2010 . http://cdn1.www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/Common_Sense_Comments_on_Children_and_Privacy_Protection.pdf . Retrieved December 25, 2010 .  
• ↑ "Proposed Law Would Prohibit Web Collection of Data on Kids" . The Wall Street Journal. December 23, 2006 . https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703865004575649140574658582 . Retrieved December 15, 2011 .  
• ↑ Cohen, Ronnie (24 September 2013). "California law allows kids to erase digital indiscretions" . reuters.com . Thomson-Reuters Corporation . Retrieved 24 April 2015 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ Noguchi, Sharon (31 August 2014). "California Legislature passes stiffest U.S. bill to protect K-12 students' online data" . mercurynews.com . San Jose Mercury News . Retrieved 24 April 2015 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ "Brief of amicus curiae – Common Sense Media in Support Of Petitioners" (PDF) . July 19, 2010 . Retrieved December 25, 2010 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ McElroy, Griffin (September 13, 2010). "Common Sense Media: 72 percent of parents support proposed Calif. violent game law" . Joystiq . Retrieved December 25, 2010 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ Steyer, James P. (November 1, 2007). Letter from Common Sense Media to Donald S. Clerk, Secretary, Federal Trade Commission (Report). Common Sense Media . http://www.ftc.gov/os/071101csmedia.pdf . Retrieved December 25, 2010 .  
• ↑ "Common Sense Commends Food and Beverage Industry for Positive Step Toward Responsible Marketing" (Press release). Common Sense Media. July 11, 2007 . http://www.commonsensemedia.org/about-us/news/press-releases/common-sense-commends-food-and-beverage-industry-positive-step-toward-r . Retrieved 2013-07-13 .  
• ↑ "The Impact of Media on Child and Adolescent Health: Executive Summary of a Systematic Review" (PDF) . Common Sense Media. December 2008 . Retrieved September 17, 2012 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ Wallace, Kelly (13 February 2015). "Kids as young as 5 concerned about body image" . CNN.com . Turner Broadcasting System, Inc . Retrieved 29 April 2015 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ "Teens and parents in Japan and US agree mobile devices are an ever-present distraction" . September 25, 2017 . Retrieved June 13, 2018 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ "Will Ferrell Is Your Distracted Dad In These Tech Responsibility PSAs" . Fast Company . October 19, 2017 . Retrieved June 13, 2018 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ "Program for the Study of Media and Children" . Common Sense Media . Retrieved September 17, 2012 . {{ cite web }} :
• ↑ Heidi Stevens (July 3, 2012). "Unplugging from Facebook to enjoy the game of life" . The Chicago Tribune . Retrieved September 17, 2012 . {{ cite web }} :
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Library Operations ¶

There are a variety of Library Operations that can be utilized in a library.

Within each library, operations can be defined by using the operations attribute, as demonstrated below.

When not using a list under operations the whole operations value is one block.

Operation Blocks ¶

You can create individual blocks of operations by using a list under operations with each item in the list being a "block" that can be individually scheduled.

Operation Attributes ¶

Assets for all ¶.

Searches the asset directories for images for all items in the library.

Attribute: assets_for_all

Accepted Values: true or false

Delete Collections ¶

Deletes collections based on a set of given attributes. The Collection must match all set attributes to be deleted.

Attribute: delete_collections

Accepted Values: There are a few different options to determine how the delete_collections works.

The collection does not need to be scheduled to be considered configured and only needs to be in the config file.

Removes all Managed Collections (Collections with the Kometa Label) that are not configured in the Current Run.

Mass Genre Update ¶

Updates every item's genres in the library to the chosen site's genres.

Attribute: mass_genre_update

Accepted Values: Source or List of sources to use in that order

Mass Content Rating Update ¶

Updates every item's content rating in the library to the chosen site's content rating.

Attribute: mass_content_rating_update

MDBList is not a live reflection of third-party sites such as CommonSense and Trakt. The data on MDBList is often days, weeks and months out of date as it is only periodically refreshed. As such, the data that Kometa applies using mdb_ operations applies may not be the same as you see if you visit those third-party sources directly.

Mass Original Title Update ¶

Updates every item's original title in the library to the chosen site's original title.

Attribute: mass_original_title_update

Mass Studio Update ¶

Updates every item's studio in the library to the chosen site's studio.

Attribute: mass_studio_update

Mass Originally Available Update ¶

Updates every item's originally available date in the library to the chosen site's date.

As plex does not allow this field to be empty, using remove or reset will set the date to the Plex default date, which is 1969-12-31

Attribute: mass_originally_available_update

Mass Added At Update ¶

Updates every item's added at date in the library to the chosen site's date.

Attribute: mass_added_at_update

Mass Rating Update ¶

Updates every item's audience/critic/user rating in the library to the chosen site's rating.

This does not affect the icons displayed in the Plex UI. This will place the number of your choice in the relevant field in the Plex database. In other words, if Plex is configured to use Rotten Tomatoes ratings, then no matter what happens with this mass rating update operation, the icons in the Plex UI will remain Rotten Tomatoes. The human who decided to put TMDb ratings in the critic slot and Letterboxd ratings in the audience slot is the only party who knows that the ratings are no longer Rotten Tomatoes. One primary use of this feature is to put ratings overlays on posters. More information on what Kometa can do with these ratings can be found here .

Attribute: mass_audience_rating_update / mass_critic_rating_update / mass_user_rating_update

Mass Episode Rating Update ¶

Updates every item's episode's audience/critic/user rating in the library to the chosen site's rating.

Attribute: mass_episode_audience_rating_update / mass_episode_critic_rating_update / mass_episode_user_rating_update

Mass Poster Update ¶

Updates every item's poster to the chosen sites poster. Will fall back to plex if the given option fails. Assets will be used over anything else.

When used in combination with Overlays, this could cause Kometa to reset the poster and then reapply all overlays on each run, which will result in image bloat .

Attribute: mass_poster_update

Accepted Values:

Mass Background Update ¶

Updates every item's background to the chosen sites background. Will fall back to plex if the given option fails. Assets will be used over anything else.

When used in combination with Overlays, this could cause Kometa to reset the background and then reapply all overlays on each run, which will result in image bloat .

Attribute: mass_background_update

Mass IMDb Parental Labels ¶

Updates every item's labels in the library to match the IMDb Parental Guide.

Attribute: mass_imdb_parental_labels

Mass Collection Mode ¶

Updates every Collection in your library to the specified Collection Mode.

Attribute: mass_collection_mode

Update Blank Track Titles ¶

Search though every track in a music library and replace any blank track titles with the tracks sort title.

Attribute: update_blank_track_titles

Remove Title Parentheses ¶

Search through every title and remove all ending parentheses in an items title if the title is not locked.

Attribute: remove_title_parentheses

Split Duplicates ¶

Splits all duplicate items found in this library.

Attribute: split_duplicates

Radarr Add All ¶

Adds every item in the library to Radarr.

The existing paths in plex will be used as the root folder of each item, if the paths in Plex are not the same as your Radarr paths you can use the plex_path and radarr_path Radarr details to convert the paths.

Attribute: radarr_add_all

Radarr Remove By Tag ¶

Removes every item from Radarr with the Tags given.

Attribute: radarr_remove_by_tag

Accepted Values: List or comma separated string of tags

Sonarr Add All ¶

Adds every item in the library to Sonarr.

The existing paths in plex will be used as the root folder of each item, if the paths in Plex are not the same as your Sonarr paths you can use the plex_path and sonarr_path Sonarr details to convert the paths.

Attribute: sonarr_add_all

Sonarr Remove By Tag ¶

Removes every item from Sonarr with the Tags given.

Attribute: sonarr_remove_by_tag

Genre Mapper ¶

Maps genres in your library to be changed to other genres.

Attribute: genre_mapper

Accepted Values: Each attribute under genre_mapper is a separate mapping and has two parts.

This example will change go through every item in your library and change the genre Action/Adventure or Action & Adventure to Action and Romantic Comedy to Comedy .

To just Remove a Genre without replacing it just set the Genre to nothing like this.

The above example will change go through every item in your library and change the genre Action/Adventure or Action & Adventure to Action and remove every instance of the Genre Romantic Comedy .

Content Rating Mapper ¶

Maps content ratings in your library to be changed to other content ratings.

Attribute: content_rating_mapper

Accepted Values: Each attribute under content_rating_mapper is a separate mapping and has two parts.

This example will change go through every item in your library and change the content rating PG or PG-13 to Y-10 and R to Y-17 .

To just Remove a content rating without replacing it just set the content rating to nothing like this.

The above example will change go through every item in your library and change the content rating PG or PG-13 to Y-10 and remove every instance of the content rating R .

Metadata Backup ¶

Creates/Maintains a Kometa Metadata File with a full metadata mapping based on the library's items locked attributes.

If you point to an existing Metadata File then Kometa will Sync the changes to the file, so you won't lose non plex changes in the file.

Attribute: metadata_backup

Accepted Values: There are a few different options to determine how the metadata_backup works.