Post by Carradee in Lets talk about a content/age rating system for itch.io

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What about a system like AO3 (Archive Of Our Own), where the content alerts are tags, and "Creator Chooses Not to Use Content Warnings" is an option? That would be backwards-compatible, for the current database, where creators could then go in and update records. The feasibility of this does of course depend on how your database is set up.

AO3 also by default has a "Hey, might have adult content!" warning page that pops up before you can even access fanfic not specifically marked as okay, unless you have specifically set that it's okay.

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No Time To Play5 years ago(+4)

Which reminds me that I recently joined Dreamwidth, which also has an interesting system. Namely, there are three levels:

no age restriction;
viewer discretion advised;
age 18+;

and then there's a freeform text field "reason for age restriction". So you get the benefits of predefined categories combined with descriptive content warnings. It does raise the obvious question of where to draw the lines, but it's an approach to consider.

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Ellicit5 years ago(+2)

I was hoping someone would have brought this up! Love AO3's system to bits.

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