User blog comment:Nalyd Renrut/The Ratings Templates/@comment-1844926-20110425113129/@comment-1874924-20110425164315

LAL briefly carried an R rating, but I argued at some length why the PG-13 rating still fit (and, I think, still does, albeit perhaps with a bit of stretching) and Gigi apparently found my arguments persuasive. We do have roughly a dozen R-rated stories, mostly cases where (a) the writer wants to use a lot of profanity; or (b) the writer doesn't understand the difference between "explicit content" and "adult situations", and errs on the side of caution.

We do have a handful G-rated stories, although my understanding of current wiki policies is that stories below PG-13 aren't required to carry a rating. The vast majority of rated stories are either PG or PG-13, split nearly 50-50.

One rating template we can get rid of is NC-17. No story currently carries this rating, and my understanding is that current policy doesn't even allow the kind of stories (i.e. pornographic or exceptionally violent or both) that would require it. If we were to keep this template for some reason, someone would need to change the background color to make it readable.