What rating system do you use?

[Zekurom]

By ratings, I don't mean those cute little numbers out of 5 or 10 (and in my case, 100) that you give to people. I'm talking big, mean ratings, the kind that ban little kids from buying Halo.

By all means, the entertainment industry is filled with rating standards for games. However, there is no one standard across countries in any industry - not for movies, not for video games, not for TV.

But what's especially strange is that there doesn't seem to be a well-known classification standard for literature anywhere, except for the category aisles in bookstores that are marked "adult fiction". Especially on the Internet, each person seems to have their own rating system, based on multitudes of things, such as MPAA ratings or the ratings on FanFiction.net.

Me, I just post a number (ranging from 5 to 19). The higher this number, the more "mature" and less "kiddy" content it contains.

What do you do for this?

 

[Der_Neuevenmenschen]

I rate it using the MPAA convention.

 

[revolvingscott]

Despite the fact that I am not American, I do it via your movie rating system. They do it on other sites I posted fics up on so I just kept up the habit. I also know that mine will usually rest between PG-13 and PG-15 but once or twice spike up into R.

 

[Aladar]

K
PG-13
T
R

is what I work with. I'll probably never make something K tho. xD

 

[Kavidun]

I use the Uk Book Ratings and/or the File Ratings.

My new fic, (Loading... Please die.) is rated 11+/12 in Uk Book/Film ratings.

 

[revolvingscott]

THERE ARE UK BOOK RATINGS? Serious? Wow! Didn't know that. I thought that books just weren't rated.

 

[Kavidun]

THERE ARE UK BOOK RATINGS? Serious? Wow! Didn't know that. I thought that books just weren't rated.

Yup. In libraries they use them.

 

[Gama]

Huh, I did not know we had book ratings. Well you live and you learn.

I just go simple - it's either 'Mature' or it's not. Done.

That said, Dragon Days is going to rest somewhere between Mature and not so I don't know what I'll call that...

 

[Lugion]

Pretty much everything I write is a low PG-13, so I don't generally attach a rating.

Violence, of course, could make my stories a solid T/PG-13/whatever you want to use. It's a story about giant robots beating the crap out of each other. They don't have to be potty-mouths, but there needs to be shit-kicking.

 

[Drakon]

I use the movie system:

G, PG, PG-13, R.

I usually write in the PG-13 to R area.

 

[LightningTopaz]

I use a combination of the USA movie ratings (eg. G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17) and the ESRB ratings (eg. E, E10+ T, M, etc)

 

[Zekurom]

Huh, I did not know we had book ratings.

Neither did I, my friend. Neither did I.

 

[Kayi Rowling]

I don't have a fixed rating system; I mostly use whatever FF.net is using at the moment, because I'm always around the place...

 

[Kantomasta]

i usually do the 1-10. but instead of 10 being the most matre, 1 is a horrible story, while 10 is an awsome story. and yes, it may be the kidie way, but its my way. (at least until i figure out f us has book rating like uk)

 

[Roulette]

Meh, I just use the american movie rating system. PG-13 for mild language and violence, and R for basically anything with more than one f word or other language like that. I don't exactly go by the guidelines, I mostly just put a warning up alerting readers to language before they read it or something.

 

[revolvingscott]

Okay, I can officially declare that the UK has NO book rating system. Don't know where that came from!

 

[Kavidun]

Okay, I can officially declare that the UK has NO book rating system. Don't know where that came from!

Okay... dude, go to a library, look at a kiddies book, or go onto the library catalogue computer. Advanced Search and you can segregate between the rating system.

EDIT: Click here for the ratings it's under collection.

 

[revolvingscott]

Okay... dude, go to a library, look at a kiddies book, or go onto the library catalogue computer. Advanced Search and you can segregate between the rating system.

EDIT: Click here for the ratings it's under collection.

lol. That's clearly an England-only thing. I haven't seen a library rating anywhere, ever.

EDIT: Show me your ratings it's not there.

EDIT II: Are they proper ratings, ie. an 11 year old can't get anything older than them, or are these guidelines?

 

[Kavidun]

lol. That's clearly an England-only thing. I haven't seen a library rating anywhere, ever.

EDIT: Show me your ratings it's not there.

EDIT II: Are they proper ratings, ie. an 11 year old can't get anything older than them, or are these guidelines?

*facepalm* YES IT'S AN ENGLAND ONLY THING!

And what is the meaning of that link?

And you CAN take something out older than your age, but an adults card needs to be scanned as well.

 

[revolvingscott]

England =/= UK.
UK = United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

If you mean England, say England. If you mean Great Britain, say Great Britain. And if you mean the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, say it.