The Dark Lord Potter fora have them sorted into rough categories (including "NC-17") and uses the "rate this thread" user star rating system to theoretically measure percieved quality - and since I can see the full range of stars on the top page of The Alternates (the one I happen to be looking at) when most have replies in the double didigts, it seems likely that it's not just a mutual admiration society, and the ratings may really give a useful reading. There's also a "discards" area for fics that don't gain sufficient positives, but it's almost empty - one Kinsfire fic and one that the description lists as Harry/Petunia of all things. I din't dare chance reading it for fear it would flouridate my precious bodily fluids... but it's in the discards after all.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
A kung-fu nun in a leather thong was no less extreme than anything else he had seen that day. - Rev. Dark's IST: Holy Sea World
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
A kung-fu nun in a leather thong was no less extreme than anything else he had seen that day. - Rev. Dark's IST: Holy Sea World
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows