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@lookitmychicken Me being me, I overthought my answer to you for hours after posting it so maybe this could be a clearer explanation: in my mind tags are purely descriptive, they say what's in a fic in a neutral way, but ratings are not purely descriptive, they have a prescriptive function too, a "you shouldn't open this if you were being a good person" meaning, because they say "at your age this is what you should be reading", which is why I tag everything all the time with no more question than "what's the canonical form of this tag?" but ratings are more difficult for me. Rating a fic about a character discovering all by herself that she enjoys something "unusual" Mature makes me afraid it's sending the message "if you were a normal minor you wouldn't experience this kind of thing". Hope it makes more sense =S