[ SECRET POST #2192 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2192 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 032 secrets from Secret Submission Post #313.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[thene]

Ratings systems IRL are hardly better. The King's Speech was rated more restrictively than The Dark Knight, because it used the word 'fuck'.

Personally I think fandom needs to move away from using ratings to simply stating whether something is SFW or not, and if not, why not. That's how the rest of the internet works and it's a much better system than the MPAA have going.

[deadtree]

you know, though, I wouldn't be surprised if The King's Speech actively sought an R rating by intentionally going over the F-word limit, in order to make sure everyone knew it was a Serious Movie about Serious Things and Not For Kids (ie, it was boring and kids would not like it).

Let's be perfectly honest here: when people talk about the E tag on AO3, they're talking about porn. They're either filtering it out because they don't want it, or they're surfing it because they do. So why can't a rating system for fanfic be based on how people actually read, I wonder?

[(Anonymous)]

I think you're correct about The King's Speech, seeing as post-Oscar they released a PG-13 edited version to be more family friendly.

I recall reading an analysis of movie ratings when I was in HS, about how movies will add swearing to get an R rating, for a lot of reasons (IIRC, people see it as an adult movie, and are more likely to pay full price to see it at night, or somesuch). The only reason I recall was that my math teacher at the time, a week later, tried to say the exact opposite, that movies cut the language to get PG13, so that more peeps can see it.

[thene]

It could just be a matter of fishing for the right audience. There was a great hoohah in the UK when The Dark Knight got a 12 sticker rather than the expected 15; it needed that preteen audience, I guess.

[thene]

I doubt that, given that it wasn't casual use - it was an entire scene about learning to say the word without stammering. The MPAA is much more swearing-obsessed than other ratings bodies, and it's not an American movie, so at the point where a scene like that has become part of a script and the only purpose of removing it would be to cater to a foreign ratings board...yeah, not gonna happen.

Mmm - MPAA ratings are to restrict content but fandom ratings are to help us find content. I had a plan a year or so ago to switch my comm over from rating tags to using 'SFW', 'NSFW (explicit)', 'NSFW (gore)', 'NSFW (nude art)', etc. I wrote a whole rant about it at the time.