
On other forums I've been to, people put tags on their thread titles. A rating system using tags like [G], [PG], [R], etc could be used to indicate levels of explicitness and violence. Authors who don't mind discussion on their stories could use something like [DIS], while those who don't could use [CDIS]. A poster could use the same sort of system to show whether or not their thread was open for participation to everyone, IC or OOC knowledge, etc. I think, or at least hope, our members will be capable of self-moderation, and don't think there would be much of a problem with being open to all sorts of content as long as everyone makes it clear beforehand what level of graphicness they're comfortable with.