cedar_grove | *sighs* Sometimes I really don't understand the litigious nature of people/organisations in the US (Reply)

Not a rant. I'm too tired to rant... But I wonder how many other witers are having problems now with having to re-rate /all/ their fiction, a few times over to accomodate all of the different rating systems handed to us courtesy of the MPAA and their "Fuck you it's my ball and you're not allowed to play with it," attitude. Previously, everyone was using common rating systems, and now every single site is different, which means that, effectively, one has to save the first chapter of every story several times - one for each of the sites one posts to, because most of them require that the first chapter be labelled with the story rating. Perhaps this is all some conspiracy between the MPAA and all computer hardware manufacturers to get us to buy bigger hard drives. (That comment, by the way is /not/ serious, but meant as an ironic undertone to add to the inherent paranoia exhibited by those who feel they have to sue and/or litigate to make sure that something that they made up remains all their own... their precious...!)

Seriously though... perhaps it might be a good idea for all of the fan fiction sites to decide on/adopt a common rating system for all of the hard working writers out there whose time is already limited, whose works are awaited by those reading their fiction and who are already struggling to keep up with all the different opinions of what constituted the previous ratings. For what one person considered to be PG13 ((c)MPAA, rating used for the purpose of illustrating the point of the journal entry, no infringment intended)/A13+/F16/T (etc) and what another considers acceptable for the same rating are never going to be the same.

Please make things easy for fan fic writers before we all quit...

(Rated ??? for use of profanity)