Was it in ProsLit that you asked the questions? It'd be ever so interesting to go back and see what people said back then, and how it compares with ideas etc today...
Of course it'll never be possible to suit everyone, so I wouldn't get too wound up along that path if I were you! I think you've made a good compromise over what information to show at Circuit and what not to (except for the slash/het/gen/pairings thing, of course *g*)
Ratings - yes, I do use them like that myself, on occasion, although again I generally don't want to know up front - it spoils the will-they/won't-they part of a story! I suppose the "NC-17" term is defined in terms of the protection of children, which always throws me when I'm in slash-world, and when I wrote the poll I wasn't thinking of the signpost-for-readers aspect! I'm sure there's been much debate about this in various parts of fandom over the years, but I'd like to see some other ratings system used, maybe a fandom-specific one, since it's used for a different purpose in alot of fandom (esp slash fandoms)!
I am still curious about how you determine what rating to give to what stories though - do you have an automated function on your software that searches for particular words, or do you actually read every story yourself and make a personal decision?
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Date: 2007-08-22 10:18 pm (UTC)Of course it'll never be possible to suit everyone, so I wouldn't get too wound up along that path if I were you! I think you've made a good compromise over what information to show at Circuit and what not to (except for the slash/het/gen/pairings thing, of course *g*)
Ratings - yes, I do use them like that myself, on occasion, although again I generally don't want to know up front - it spoils the will-they/won't-they part of a story! I suppose the "NC-17" term is defined in terms of the protection of children, which always throws me when I'm in slash-world, and when I wrote the poll I wasn't thinking of the signpost-for-readers aspect! I'm sure there's been much debate about this in various parts of fandom over the years, but I'd like to see some other ratings system used, maybe a fandom-specific one, since it's used for a different purpose in alot of fandom (esp slash fandoms)!
I am still curious about how you determine what rating to give to what stories though - do you have an automated function on your software that searches for particular words, or do you actually read every story yourself and make a personal decision?