Ratings on your DW entries

[mekare]

Just out of interest, how do you handle ratings on your journals? Everybody has a basic access rating (like, discretion advised or 18+) but do you rate individual entries for their content? Which rating system do you use? I came across a journal today that had no rating tags for entries (which I almost always use) and it seemed strange to me. But maybe I am overtagging since my whole journal is already set to 18+. Mmmh.

Comments

[mekare]

Yeah it seems most people use ao3 alsmot exclusively now for their fanworks.

[wendelah1]

Which we shouldn't--AO3 is a great archive but nothing lasts forever. Everyone should archive in at least two places. I shudder to think of all of the fic that will be lost if Gossamer (the enormous, ancient, no-longer updating X-Files archive) goes down. Or the owner dies and quits paying for the domain.

Sorry for the OT. I've been obsessed with archiving since the loss of geocities.

[mekare]

No, no, this is a concern that I share! I’ve had the misfortune of coming to formerly big fandoms very late and always find broken links to old pages which were taken down. My snowflake wishlist included a request for people to archive their fic not just on personal pages but on AO3 as well to avoid this kind of thing in the future.

[wendelah1]

Sounds good to me. And, I wish people would consider orphaning their fic rather than just hitting delete, delete, delete.

I don't know what I'd do without the Internet Archive. I use it almost every day.