zandrellia wrote:

What is "common" for one person is not necessarily for the next.

I believe you understand what this word means in the context it was used. If not, I can define the word 'common'.

Yes, I want more than a generic genre and rating system. I do not want a can with a white label that just says 'Beans'. Are they kidney beans, butter beans, pinto beans, jelly beans, pork-n-beans, Northern beans, green beans or what?

As for movies and books. We do get a very good idea what they will be about and how that subject matter will be treated. I do not walk into a movie called Saw and expect a thriller like The Birds. Why? Because the promotors show and tell me exactly what will be in Saw, without showing me the entire movie. Book jackets do the same.

No, the author does not 'have to' provide warnings (hence my common courtesy remark) but it could improve how many people read their fic and cut down on the number of complaints they receive from readers who didn't like the 'surprise' they got. I personally don't complain, but neither do I continue to read anything by that writer.

ladybattousai wrote:
I think it's safe to say that higher rating is probably never going to be established. It's not going to divide the age groups any further which is the whole point of the rating system.

The tags are really as developed as they can be. We could add more, but it's all up to the discretion of the author whether they're used. They could decide not to include them and really, we don't punish for that.

And lastly, I think most of you guys are on the same page, but you're not quite seeing it. I'm just putting that out there in case anyone feels even the slightest bit hurt.



You summarized that perfectly!

Oh and, all this stuff is close to many of your hearts, so please remember that as you write your responses.

What exactly is it that you are wanting an extreme filter for? You like zombies and don't seem to have a problem with violence, from what I have read. Is it about something of an extreme sexual nature? That part is unclear to me.

Secondly, I noticed you were linked to adultfanfiction.net. Let me just say in warning as someone who works on both that site and dokuga, if you have issues with extreme's not being 100% labeled in a fic, I'd recommend not venturing over there. On AFF we have many more tags for fictions, but nothing that covers every little thing. General yes, but that's it. And I promise you the things you will find on AFF are FAR worse than anything you will come across on Dokuga or FFN. If you are squicked by violence, sexual extreme's, or anything else considered out of the norm, AFF is probably not the site for you. However, if you do decide to try it out, tread carefully. Anything goes there, and I do mean ANYTHING. Please keep that in mind if you check out that site.

I also deal in the fiction area of this site, as well as AFF. I have seen fictions that should have a higher rating, and I have seen some that didn't need to be rated so high. A lot of it is opinion. One person may say this needs to be rated higher, another will say it doesn't. On this, it's pretty much a moot point. All fiction on both sites is gone over by a moderator, and if the staff feels that the content in a fiction needs a higher rating, a note is sent out to the author asking for a change. If it's rated correctly according to the site rules, that's pretty much the end of it.

That being said, here is my advice to you. If you are unsure about a rating, or a fic and it's content, skim over the entire thing before reading. That may spoil a few things for you, but at least you will have a general idea of things to come so you are not shocked or traumatized later. Or, you could always stick to fictions of a lower rating, because that is assuredly safe in that aspect. In my opinion, I don't really think anything else will keep things you don't like from jumping off the page at you in these particular genre's. If you feel something is incorrectly rated, report it to a moderator or admin, and they will work on either getting it changed or explain to you why it will remain as it is.

Well Quality Control is a fairly broad concept. You could be talking about anything really in reference to stories. You could be referring to the quality of the story content, as in the plot, spelling, punctuation, and grammar, or the ability of being able to filter stories via a website's online search engine.

If you're talking about Filtering stories via a search engine. The ability to do that depends on the size of the website, the number of fandoms it covers, the ratings it accepts (K to MA), and the genre of stories it covers (Romance, Comedy etc).

Dokuga is a relatively small archive that covers Inuyasha only, and the pairing is Sess/Kag predominantly. The Filter and Search engine will be relatively smaller and less complex than say AFFNet, or FFNet that are incredibly large, and focus on Multiple fandoms, thus the Filter, and Search engine functions will be much more complex.

The ability to Filter stories based on the genre and rating won't necessarily give you better Quality Control. It simply organizes stories in different ways. Slapping on Warnings won't give you better quality either. It's simply a forethought of the author who might want to give their readers a heads-up on the type of content in their stories, especially if it contains sensitive themes like character demise, or adult content.

It has to be noted that in most cases it's at the Author's discretion to provide warnings. I do this, but generally only if I write in the higher M rating, and it's usually only if I have strong coarse language (usually courtesy of Inuyasha being a potty-mouth) in the ficlet.

Other websites won't necessarily be large enough to warrant the necessity of an online search engine either. So story content there might not be searchable, or even organized by genre tags like Romance, or Comedy, or even by ratings like M or MA. If the site is large like AFFnet or FFNet then its likely that the site will cover multiple fandoms, rather than just Inuyasha with the emphasis on the Sess/Kag pairing on Dokuga. It could be easier or harder to search for specific stories dedicated too or featuring Sess/Kag. It's really a matter of checking the sites out and browsing to see what you can find.

~ Pyre

Generally I'm a Dark/Sadistic Writer, it's what I specialize in. Knowing that, I tend not to give any warnings on my work apart from what I can click in when adding the chapters. However, when I recently challenged myself to begin working on the Darkest of Dark fics that I've written in a long time, I went the extra mile to include an extra warning in the story summary. The warning (Heavy Character Abuse) was general enough to not spoil anything in the story, but specific enough to warn people what they might encounter.

That being said, I don't know off hand if there are any other Sess/Kag dedicated websites out there. I vaguely recall something like Inuyashafanfiction.net or something like that that may have been S/K dedicated, this was way back before Dokuga was created as an actual Writing Site, when I alternated back and forth between AFF.net and Single Spark.

I thought I'd add in my two cents... mostly because I want to see if the images in my signature will turn out since I am a noob. :3
I've honestly never had an issue with being off guard with stories or art on this site. The writers and admin here do their best to ensure that you know what you're about to see or read and I appreciate all the hard work btw.

Thank you Dokuga!!!! You're amazing. ^_^

The only issue i have sofar with the tags/filtering here is that soooo many AU fics are listed as Canon despite obviously not being canon, like some random higschool story where the chars are just regular ppl (no demons magic or anything, pretty much just a random story using the names from IY) being listed as canon. Other than that it seems to be doing the trick nicely.