Is this still because of the married couple tweet joke?

Orientation != mature, since kids can have any combination of parents/guardians.

IMO the guideline should be cheesy pun that would make someone’s kid of any age groan and shake their head, whereas, like others said, “uncle jokes” take a second more thought and are usually based on sexual (bodily and/or “action based”) themes. Maturity level isn’t so much the issue as is the difference between obvious wordplay and double entendres. It doesn’t need to be a stone-set line, but the genres are definitely distinct.

I always think it's a shame when uncle jokes seep into dad jokes. They are not the same. I wouldn't tell my under-10yo kids an uncle joke. I would tell them a dad joke. I would tell my teenage nephews and nieces an uncle joke. Uncle jokes should be in an uncle jokes community e.g. !unclejokes@lemmy.world

It'll be a shame if this community changes into smut - we get enough of that elsewhere, it's nice to have a place for clean jokes. But I guess I'm in the minority.

I'm going to watch a bit, but if this turns into just a dirty joke central ... 🤷‍♀️ ... that's not what I joined the group for.

Oh shoot, I thought Uncle Jokes could handle the edgier jokes. I'm not going anywhere though. What about asking people to preface them with a rating letter? G or E for the mosquito joke for instance. T for the jokes a Dad could tell teens but not little kids, M for the jokes he only tells Mom

I disagree with the change. Good luck with the not kid appropriate jokes. I'm out.