04-29-03 @ 1:38 am EDT

I will soon be changing the rating of Skew from PG-13 to R. This does NOT mean the content of Skew is going to become patently adult from now on. It just means I'm taking into account some of the language I have used in here in the past and might use when incredibly angry in the future (specifically, the F word), and changing the content rating accordingly. In my own opinion, occasional use of the F word does NOT count as an R rating...but that's my own opinion and not the site's rules. Basically I just don't like the thought of a moderator stepping in here someday, seeing one of my rare "F" entries, and, thinking I'm some foul-mouthed sailor, changing my rating to X. :) I would prefer to control my own ratings.

I've been thinking about this a long time, but both laziness and my own personal disagreement with the rule (my journal, really, should not have the same rating as a mild erotic piece or a piece with lots of blood and violence; Skew should not have the same rating as the latest T&A horror flick or bloody brainless action movie showing at the local theater) have made me delay my decision until now. (I'm even constantly wondering if most of the Chronicles should be NC-17 or X...even reading the difference between the two ratings in the ratings forum hasn't answered my question. If anybody knows, please advise!) There have been lots of crackdowns on inappropriate ratings lately, and I don't want that crackdown to...well, to crack down on me. o_O

It'll be a bit of a relief to know that the next time something REALLY pisses me off, I can say the F word without expecting any rebuke. Honest to God, not that it matters, but I don't even say "bitch" or "damn"...or "piss off"...in real life.

SO...expect that PG-13, and the PG-13 rating on my "Journals" folder, to change to R sometime in the next day or so. Any mods who read this and have an itchy finger to change the rating...don't worry, it WILL be changed, manually, by myself. I just want to give any younger readers Skew might have the chance to know why the rating is going to change; not because I'm going to start cussing up a storm or posting erotic stuff in here :P , but just because of the F word I've got in a few earlier entries. All righties?

(It'll be weird for Skew to have a higher content rating than my dreams journal, which features...ah well, if you look at it close enough you'll see what it features. Still nothing as bad as what you'll find on late-night TV. o_o )

I know, I tempt fate by complaining about the site policies here, but it's my journal and surely I can't get in trouble for griping about it here, right? I'm certainly not going to go into one of the official forums and do that...I've gotten in plenty of trouble in THOSE for doing things I never even knew were forbidden. (At least, the rules never said they were, and I never saw anybody ELSE get in trouble for doing the same things...)

Oh yes, none of the above applies to the offsite (non-Writing.com) versions of Skew as they do not have ratings, and one of them is on a site where you must be eighteen to sign up yet it seems the massive majority of the userbase is pre-15. Just thought I'd toss that out there. :)

Well, I think I spent enough time blithering about something that should have been only a two-sentence public service announcement to maybe three or four people, so tar...