Why do some harmless sites get blocked?
It must be remembered that certain words and phrases will cause a page to be blocked. Very often the phrase is harmless in one context, but may not always be so. For instance consider the word “sex”. In most cases we would not want to see pages with sexual content. However a school biology report may be discussing the differences in plumage between male and female birds. It may have the word “sex” on that site numerous times. This page could possibly exceed the weighted phrase list (see next question). Q: Some pages block because of “weighted phrase limit exceeded”. What does this mean? A: There are certain words or phrases, which carry a weight or a value. These are generally words or phrases that have sexual or violent connotations. For instance the word sex will carry a weight of 5, while rape has a weight of 20. If the sum of all the weights on a page exceeds 120 then we deem that page to be nonviewable and it gets blocked. Certain phrases may have a weight of 200, so that if that
