@shinyao LMAO

@MissMinew You'd almost say people got nothing better to do, but then again HERE WE ARE ON AFF LMAO

Amen! But I would also like to appeal for communication. If a comment (or PM) to the author about how the story should be M-rated (for whatever reason, give arguments here... Nobody likes being reported if the argumentation basically is "because I feel like it") doesn't work - report. I never quite understood why someone would go to the trouble of labelling each chapter as M instead of the entire story? What a hassle, lol.

@shinyao Ooh yea the 10:3 seems like a pretty good standard.

Honestly an issue I have more than the M one is as much as I don't mind triggering stuff I really hate when people DONT put a TW tag because "they dont want to give out any spoilers" or they just put it in text that can easily be overlooked (in the middle of a paragraph, or in general just not written in emphasis).

It's happened a few times that I read something and next thing I know I'm feeling shaken or triggered because I wasnt given any kind of warning.

@liquorandice People should be more aware of the TW function as well, yes! And no problem. I personally that if you have like 10 chapters and 3 of them are mature then your story IS m-rated.

@chroma You can always try and report them and then it's up to the moderator if they think it's suitable for minors or not. Although I tried this once too and it got rejected, so I personally don't trust the mods' ability to judge a whole lot.

@SomeHowAwesome Yep sadly people actually do it. It literally happens every week and in the feautured/popular section probably at least once a month.

Hmm I thonk my response to this might depend on context of story. In my years in AFF I don't think I've read a non M rated story actually be predominantly M. Or maybe I overlook it.

If it's every few chapters there's M as long as the chapter itself is rated I think it's fine but if story wise it's predominantly Mature that's when it's already inappropriate.

I'll try to be more conscious of M and TW themes and report/comment on the story whenever I feel like it's needed to be done. Thanks for making me realize that this is a thing

I used to find stories get featured in non-rated sections, but when I looked into the chapters, most of them were rated as [M] and I was (still am) like ??????? And if I rmb correctly, those are from the same author but I can't seem to find them anymore uwu

Do people actual do this? That's so surprising to me! As an [M] writer, I've never thought of doing that to a story. Like, I understand, the [M] featured section is usually always dominated by oneshots, however the fact that people are doing that is just plain wrong. It's great and all to have a lot of people read your fic, but I don't think that being featured is that important to subject unsuspecting people to mature content.