Whitelists just don't work well with a decent size library. While some people will go in and modify the ratings that is BAD IMHO.

Here's the reason for me. I would prefer to be able to view the true rating of any set of movies.

So for example when the kids are little you can pull up all the "G" movies. You might have kids that are fine with all kinds of things but something like a clown can freak your kids out. So it's easy to view all your "G" movies and then add a tag "not G" to any of the G movies that might bother your kids. You then grant them access to all the G movies but put a restriction on the tag "not G". Or a tag "clown". Maybe you share your libraries with a niece or nephew and they are fine with everything but bears. One of my nephews would have nightmares watching Winnie the Pooh. So I could just flag any movie with any type of bears in it and when setting up his account put a restriction on the tag "bears".

Your kids get a bit older and you want to grant them access to PG movies. So you pull up all PG movies in your library and again look to see if there are any movies that might bother them. Maybe something like Baywatch is a bit to "sexual" for them at that age or something like "Big Daddy" is a bit much for you kids. Do you want your son peeing on buildings cause he saw it in a movie? Or how about Battle: Los Angeles, as it might be a bit to violent for them right now even though it's PG-13. So you can add a tag to those 3 movies "Not PG-13" and of course setup the libs with access to everything up to PG-13 but then set a blacklist on "Not PG-13".

Things get more interesting as you get closer to NC-17 or R ratings or when dealing with movies that don't have ratings or have a rating of NR. My kids are now 17 and 18 but there are still a handful of movies I really don't want them to see on my system. Bound or Secretary for example might be fine for my 18 year old daughter but not for my 17 old son. He may be fine with all type of violence and language but some of the sexual type movies are to much for him and he'll "brag" to friends he watched such and such which can be a bad reflection on his parents. So in this case I can grant my daughter more access but for my son I want to pull the reigns back a bit on maybe a dozen movies.

So while "whitelists" are important for picking the main set of movies that should be included in their access it's really nice to be able to flag a few for whatever reason. And the reason might be different for each person you setup as in the example of "G" movies that could contain clowns or bears.

Carlo