Quite a while back, I ran a poll on ratings for fiction. The MPAA ratings won across the board for recommended rating style, but that was before they started sending cease and desist letters to prominent fanfic authors.
I bolded the important parts. It seems that the rating system is copy-righted, and the big guys don't like us using it.
If people use weird ratings they could at least be so kind as you are and post an explanation of them. That's why it would be great if we could get every body to agree on one style of rating. If the big archives maybe went to, say, a system like this one, every one would get on board eventually. I posted the rating on my info page, so I figured anyone who friends me now will know what the numbers mean.
Personally, I don't care about rating one way or another, I'm becoming quite the anarchist in my old age, but it's there for the folks who do.*G*
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6/2/05 02:35 am (UTC)I bolded the important parts. It seems that the rating system is copy-righted, and the big guys don't like us using it.
If people use weird ratings they could at least be so kind as you are and post an explanation of them.
That's why it would be great if we could get every body to agree on one style of rating. If the big archives maybe went to, say, a system like this one, every one would get on board eventually.
I posted the rating on my info page, so I figured anyone who friends me now will know what the numbers mean.
Personally, I don't care about rating one way or another, I'm becoming quite the anarchist in my old age, but it's there for the folks who do.*G*