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

[melannen]

You triggered a rant from me which mostly I think doesn't actually apply to your question, so I took it out of the comment and posted it to my journal instead: You're about to view content that the journal owner has marked as possibly inappropriate for anyone.

As to your actual question - the only time I've seen people using rating on their DW journals/comms is when the account was being used almost entirely for organizing fanwork (which a lot of people have stopped doing, since AO3 is so much better at it.) Most people who are journaling just handle general ratings more informally through things like cut tags, and if they warn in the tags it's for specific content types.

But if you are going to put the adult content warning on your journal by default, ratings in the tags is actually a really good idea, because tags are visible below the warning cut, so it's the only way for someone to see which entries actually are adult.

[mekare]

Yeah the thing is I am one of those people who use it as primarily a fanwork space so I guess ratings are more important to me. And yes, I do use the tags for exactly this reason. Most of my works are G-rated and you can see that under the warning.