I'm one of those people that doesn't really 'get' fic headers, which is probably me showing my original fic roots. When I posts WiPs in my own journal I also never include headers; instead I usually have a kind of extended author's note at the top detailing what's going on. I very occasionally put pairing information in the title, but more commonly I rely on people reading the post tags.
More formally at my fic site (http://badfic.void-star.net/fanfic) I do word count, chapters, date started/finished, pairing and some vague warnings. Oh, and fics are ordered by fandom, so hopefully that's evident enough. I don't do ratings -- I'm not my readers' moral guardian, not to mention the more common US-style ratings don't make sense to me anyway (being Australian and all) -- and I tend to squash author's notes and summaries together.
The one thing I don't "get" are disclaimers. I can't see that they have a legal point, really (no-one's gonna hold off on the DMCA notice because you've put on in), and it's fairly self-evident to anyone in the community that, yeah, you're not the author. /shrugs
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Date: 2008-06-17 05:53 am (UTC)I'm one of those people that doesn't really 'get' fic headers, which is probably me showing my original fic roots. When I posts WiPs in my own journal I also never include headers; instead I usually have a kind of extended author's note at the top detailing what's going on. I very occasionally put pairing information in the title, but more commonly I rely on people reading the post tags.
More formally at my fic site (http://badfic.void-star.net/fanfic) I do word count, chapters, date started/finished, pairing and some vague warnings. Oh, and fics are ordered by fandom, so hopefully that's evident enough. I don't do ratings -- I'm not my readers' moral guardian, not to mention the more common US-style ratings don't make sense to me anyway (being Australian and all) -- and I tend to squash author's notes and summaries together.
The one thing I don't "get" are disclaimers. I can't see that they have a legal point, really (no-one's gonna hold off on the DMCA notice because you've put on in), and it's fairly self-evident to anyone in the community that, yeah, you're not the author. /shrugs