Writer's Room Ratings

[katt]

Please put up a general rating in the subject line, along with the general genre and style of writing.

Ratings acceptable for the board
G General Audiences - All ages admitted
PG Parental Guidance Suggested
PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned


Ratings not acceptable for the board
R (Restricted) / NC-17 (No One Under 17)
Anything containing extreme violence, sex or portrayal of drug use.


For example, I'm posting an uber gooshy fic about two people falling in love and living a disgustingly sappy and non-sexual life.

The subject line would be as follows: Katt's disgustingly sappy fic (fiction, romance, G)

Also, before you post your writing online, please check over spelling and grammar mistakes. Be sure that your formatting is easy on the eyes.

[Dantai]

WTF is NC-17? It sounds like some sort of toilet cleaner...

[Amby Leigh]

Please check the DATE of topics past page one before you bump them... it is now 2008... the post was made in 2004. Please be more careful next time. Thank you.

[Dantai]

Please check the DATE of topics past page one before you bump them... it is now 2008... the post was made in 2004. Please be more careful next time. Thank you.

This topic is a sticky, so whether I comment or not, it still stays at the top.

[Amby Leigh]

In that case I am sorry. It was reported for necro-posting but I failed to see that it was sticked. It was my mistake. I apologize.

And NC-17 means "No Children under 17." It's a rating meant for things that are usually sexually graphic. It's one level up from an R rating.

[Bivinz]

I don't think that the question really needed a capitalized "WTF" in it :S Maybe a lower case "wth" or something.

I, personally, back when Fanfiction.net had a NC-17 rating, thought it was just a fantastic place. :P Pairings of whatever you could think of and awkward situations where "things" would happen. Very hilarious XD

Pretty much 1 rating below an X rating.

[Dantai]

I always type shorthands in uppercase so people know what I'm saying. Example: "BTW, WTF does FYI mean, because IMO is sounds pretty lame."

Get my point?

[OnionCutter4Life]

Whats the MC-17 mean? 0_0

[UltraRob]

Whats the MC-17 mean? 0_0

NC-17 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NC-17_rated_films)- "No Children under the age of 17 admitted", it's a rating created by the American ratings system to try to cover a gap that existed between Restricted Films (films with small amounts of sex, nudity, violence and adult subject matter) and X-Rated films (which had pretty much become synonymous with Pornography and sex films).

This was necessary because there were films that were for adults only but weren't porn that couldn't be shown in many American theaters due to local laws forbidding showing X-Rated films. (Which is what a formerly NC-17 film would be classified as if it had too much gore, sex, or adult subject matter even if it wasn't porn.)

By the way, if you're Canadian then NC-17 just means the same as "Restricted". An American R-rating is a Canadian AA (Adult Accompaniment) rating and a Canadian R-rating (no one under 18 allowed) is roughly equal to the NC-17 rating. Although we Canadians tend to make films R-rated much more easily than the Americans give out NC-17 and there isn't the same social stigma attached to a Canadian R-rating as there is to an American NC-17 rating (which in many places is still associated with "dirty" films).

So, to sum up. Don't go nuts with the sex and violence in this forum or it'll get yanked.

Rob

[Splodeydope]

Does that also go for naughty language?

[ShortBus]

Can you recruit/audition people if your content is more graphic than PG-13? You don't necessarily have to post the content on the site. I think you can only have like 5 curse words for a PG-13 movie. The violence in it has to be mild as well. Even in the TV ratings most everything is 14 and older unless it's for little kids. I'm not trying to argue the rule, I'm trying to understand it better so that I don't break it.