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Reminder re: Age Restriction Ratings
Nov. 13th, 2010 02:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lenna_nightrunnerThis is just a reminder and hopefully some clarification about our post age restriction system.
Everyone who's been posting NSFW and M/MA/AO/NC-17 (in sort, adult) content has been very good about using warnings and cuts, and we are very grateful for that. Our journal defaults to No Age Restriction and accessible to everyone/public because this community is all-inclusive and has a very wide range of content, which we love. So we rely on every poster to properly rate, warn, cut, and screen his/her posts so everyone knows which content they want to view.
Recently it seems like hardly anyone's using the post age restriction option, though.
The "age restriction" option (a drop down menu in the post creation window near "comment screening") helps us add another level of clarity to help readers differentiate content ratings and plays an important role for visitors or users who are not members of the community. The little "18+" and "NSFW" icons at the top left hand corner of posts not only make it very easy to scroll through and see which posts have adult content, but they also automatically put the entirety of posts marked as such under a cut that warns for adult content.
There are two types of age restriction settings:
Viewer Discretion Advised (NSFW icon): As a general rule, anything that might be comparable to content in an R rated movie, i.e. artwork with tasteful nudity, fanfiction with non-explicit sex or sexual activity, and discussion topics with mature content, but not explicitly or extremely so.
Age 18+ (18+ icon): As a general rule, anything that might be comparable to an M/MA/AO/NC-17 rated movie, i.e. artwork with explicit nudity and/or implied or explicit sexual activity, fanfiction with explicit sexual activity, and discussion topics with explicit or extreme mature content.
When in doubt, go for the higher rating.
There's also a great option field that allows you to explain why you've rated a post the way you have. For instance, you could write "explicit sexual themes" or "tasteful nudity" in that field. When a user who is not logged in clicks on the cut that tells him/her if a post is rated Viewer Discretion Advised or Age 18+, Dreamwidth tells him/her the reason for the rating when he/she has to confirm his/her age. How great is that? :D
Please take the time to retroactively mark any of your posts that may contain adult content with the appropriate age restriction option. I know that it's a pain and may seem a bit redundant, but it would be a great help if you could do this for the reasons I mentioned above. If you feel that you have too many posts with adult content for this to be a reasonable task, talk to me or Shimmy about it.
As always, let me ortwist_shimmy know if you have any questions about this or any difficulties in using the system (or anything else).
Thank you!
Everyone who's been posting NSFW and M/MA/AO/NC-17 (in sort, adult) content has been very good about using warnings and cuts, and we are very grateful for that. Our journal defaults to No Age Restriction and accessible to everyone/public because this community is all-inclusive and has a very wide range of content, which we love. So we rely on every poster to properly rate, warn, cut, and screen his/her posts so everyone knows which content they want to view.
Recently it seems like hardly anyone's using the post age restriction option, though.
The "age restriction" option (a drop down menu in the post creation window near "comment screening") helps us add another level of clarity to help readers differentiate content ratings and plays an important role for visitors or users who are not members of the community. The little "18+" and "NSFW" icons at the top left hand corner of posts not only make it very easy to scroll through and see which posts have adult content, but they also automatically put the entirety of posts marked as such under a cut that warns for adult content.
There are two types of age restriction settings:
Viewer Discretion Advised (NSFW icon): As a general rule, anything that might be comparable to content in an R rated movie, i.e. artwork with tasteful nudity, fanfiction with non-explicit sex or sexual activity, and discussion topics with mature content, but not explicitly or extremely so.
Age 18+ (18+ icon): As a general rule, anything that might be comparable to an M/MA/AO/NC-17 rated movie, i.e. artwork with explicit nudity and/or implied or explicit sexual activity, fanfiction with explicit sexual activity, and discussion topics with explicit or extreme mature content.
When in doubt, go for the higher rating.
There's also a great option field that allows you to explain why you've rated a post the way you have. For instance, you could write "explicit sexual themes" or "tasteful nudity" in that field. When a user who is not logged in clicks on the cut that tells him/her if a post is rated Viewer Discretion Advised or Age 18+, Dreamwidth tells him/her the reason for the rating when he/she has to confirm his/her age. How great is that? :D
Please take the time to retroactively mark any of your posts that may contain adult content with the appropriate age restriction option. I know that it's a pain and may seem a bit redundant, but it would be a great help if you could do this for the reasons I mentioned above. If you feel that you have too many posts with adult content for this to be a reasonable task, talk to me or Shimmy about it.
As always, let me or
twist_shimmy know if you have any questions about this or any difficulties in using the system (or anything else). Thank you!
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