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.

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[genarti]

I never use ratings on my journal. (I don't think I see many people I follow doing it either, for a data point, other than the overall 18+ setting.) It's never occurred to me to do so! I don't think ratings are a particularly useful/flexible warning system for journals -- no criticism for those who do, it's just not something I personally find useful -- so I'm not likely to start.

Mind you, I don't post much stuff that's particularly sensitive or NSFW either, as a rule, and I'm not aware of any kids reading my journal. But how I handle the exceptions -- or anything else with content that I know is a common trigger, a known trigger of someone reading, etc etc -- is to put it beneath a cut, and put a content note in the cut text so people know what they're likely to see if they click on it.

I do rate fic, although mostly what I write is gen/all audiences/teen and up anyway. But that's with AO3's built-in ratings, and I don't really do additional on my journal (though, again, I use content warnings if I think they're applicable.)

[mekare]

That seems to be most people’s approach here as well.