All the stories on my site use "The Fan Rated Ratings System," which is described as follows. Many thanks to Demelza Watt for permission and advice, and to the ListMommies of various Gilesean lists for the ratings descriptions. Btw, I made the following graphics as a visual aide, so feel free to use them on your own fan fic or archive site if you want, and help promote The Fan Rated Rating System.

	Fan Rated Suitable For Children Contains no swearing, only general sexual references, and mild 'comical' violence.
	Fan Rated Suitable For Teenagers May contain some mild language, non-graphic nudity, and moderate violence. May also contain suggested sexuality and/or fade-to-black bedroom scenes, and frank discussion of sex.
	Fan Rated Suitable For Mature Persons May contain coarse language, sensual bedroom scenes (non-graphic sex), and graphic violence. Sensitive subject matters such as sexual violence, rape, torture, child abuse, substance abuse, etc. may be discussed frankly but not graphically depicted.
	Fan Rated Suitable For Adults Only May contain explicit depictions of sexual acts, extreme violence, drug abuse, and/or coarse language.

It is a system by which webmasters/webmistresses can rate the stories in their archive, without risk of breaking any laws by using the default ones as used by Movies and TV Shows, which are legally owned and copyrighted to the MPA (Motion Picture Association).

The new rating system was set up so that we all (as fans) can rate our stories, but without fear of legal troubles caused by the MPA and their Cease and Desist notices that are suddenly appearing all over the WWW.

This rating is OURS, which means anyone who writes Fan Fiction, or hosts Fan Fiction archives, can use it.

FRC - Fan Rated Suitable For Children
FRT - Fan Rated Suitable For Teenagers
FRM - Fan Rated Suitable For Mature Persons
FRAO - Fan Rated Suitable For Adults Only

As always, though, you will need to apply the specific content warnings to your stories. As a guide, we have offered the following:

P - Profanity
SC - Sexual Content
V - Violence
GV - Graphic Violence

More, of course, can be added as you see fit.

Last, but certainly not least, is a generic Legal Disclaimer you should importantly add to your Fan Fictions, or your Fan Fiction Archives.

Without Prejudice. The names of all characters contained here-in are the property of Name_Of_Copyright_Holder. No Infringments of these copyrights are intended, and are used here without permission.

If you have original characters in your Fan Fiction, make sure you add that into your Disclaimer.

Note: The presence of Original Characters (in your Fan Fiction) will dampen any law suit made against you for your use of the show/book/movie characters in your Fan Fiction.