Fall Asleep and I Miss Something...
Don't know why this didn't catch my attention before, but I was probably doing something unimportant, like sleeping.
Anyway, I was cross-posting an entry on MediaMiner and noticed this:
08-01-05:
Media Miner has a new fiction rating system. The new labels can be found here, with more information about the changes.
In a nutshell, the rating system is now as follows (taken from the thread discussing the changes):
A All
No cussing, no sex, and minimal violence.
P pre teen <13
More or less the same as above, but a bit more violence.
T Teen <16
No more cussing than you'd hear in an average high school hallway (more than you'd think), bit of nudity and that sort of thing, and a good bit of blood's flowing
Y Young adult 16 to 18
Anything short of outright graphic sex or disembowelment.
X Porn
It's Adult. Or something with really gratuitous blood and gore in detail.
Okay...how do you rate anything anymore, including ficlets, etc., posted here at LiveJournal? I personally favor the system used to rate Manga (where you have the 'OT=Older Teen' option) because it's a bit more specific.
Media Miner's rating system is more descriptive than Fanfiction.net's, but yeesh - pretty soon, every site is going to have their own system. I think this means that any awards site (such as the IYFG) is going to have to use the rating listed by the hosting site, rather than the generic 'R' or 'PG', just to avoid trouble.
Trying to decide whether or not to mention this over at IYFG...
Anyway, I was cross-posting an entry on MediaMiner and noticed this:
08-01-05:
Media Miner has a new fiction rating system. The new labels can be found here, with more information about the changes.
In a nutshell, the rating system is now as follows (taken from the thread discussing the changes):
A All
No cussing, no sex, and minimal violence.
P pre teen <13
More or less the same as above, but a bit more violence.
T Teen <16
No more cussing than you'd hear in an average high school hallway (more than you'd think), bit of nudity and that sort of thing, and a good bit of blood's flowing
Y Young adult 16 to 18
Anything short of outright graphic sex or disembowelment.
X Porn
It's Adult. Or something with really gratuitous blood and gore in detail.
Okay...how do you rate anything anymore, including ficlets, etc., posted here at LiveJournal? I personally favor the system used to rate Manga (where you have the 'OT=Older Teen' option) because it's a bit more specific.
Media Miner's rating system is more descriptive than Fanfiction.net's, but yeesh - pretty soon, every site is going to have their own system. I think this means that any awards site (such as the IYFG) is going to have to use the rating listed by the hosting site, rather than the generic 'R' or 'PG', just to avoid trouble.
Trying to decide whether or not to mention this over at IYFG...