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FicWad.com (also referenced as FicWad) is a user automated Fan fiction website. Was possibly created by a users known as "admin" and "Kemayo" on February 20, 2005. The site uses an opinion-based user quality scale, categories for types of stories (ex. Books, Games etc), sub-category for specifics to the category (Book > Lord of the Rings), and a rating scale from maturity of content. Through the years has gotten major popularity with up to 30.2 people. The site has 10 main categories: Anime/Manga, Books, Cartoons, Celebrities, Comics, Games, Movies, Orginal, Theatre, and TV. Registered users can: publish their Fan fiction, make reviews on their own or other users stories/chapters, rate quality of stories content, use a filter to search for the quality of every story (see Content Quality Rating Scale below), see NC-17 rated material, manage their profile, maintain a list of favorite stories and authors, and maintain a list of E-mail alerts for chosen stories.

Home

This is the homepage of the site with a moto at the beginning of fresh-picked original and fan fiction. From here multiple actions can be take such as

Checking the current news
Browsing the categories
Creating an account/logging in

Side Bar

The side bar on the right side of the web page that is always there, with the options of seeing:

Amount of rating points you have (if logged in)
Filter (See Content Quality Rating Scale)
Featured Story
Site Stats
Recent Stories

My Account

From this section you can manage the options below Alerts After clicking on a story, if you scroll to the bottom there are 4 options including this which lets you get emails anytime that chapter or story is update. Favorites Through the same way to add a story to your alerts there is another box next to "Alerts" called "Favorites". With this when you log into your account and click favorites, your personal favorited stories appear Reviews These are review of your stories from other users. When viewing the reviews, you can say if they are helpful to you or not and comment back to the reviewer Stories This is where you can make and edit stories you have written. It is required that in every story the author must add.

Title
Chapter Title
Category
Rating
Summary
Genre
Characters
A story or story file

Optionally the author can add

Warnings-the warnings are NOT a rating system, these are for if writing about something like a book there might be spoilers about future books that others might not have read. Along with that it might however describe why a story is rated how it is, with adjectives such as V for "violence" or X for "Sex" and so on
Other characters

Profile

Help

This part of the site contains questions with the subcategories of

About FicWad
Registration and User Accounts

To be a user at FicWad, you must be at least 13 years of age or older.

Uploading and Editing Stories
Feeds

Forum

This is were registered user can talk to the users or administators (possibly) about tips on writing, site issues, or anything you want.

Search

This is were there is the ability to search a story etc. on the world wide web or on just FicWad.

Browse

Directs you to the selection of Categories

Content Quality Rating Scale

Next to every story and chapter on FicWad there is a box with a number and a despcription word. The description words are either complimenting the story or saying what is wrong with it.

Good description words

Ambiance
Exciting
Funny
Hot
Insightful
Moving
Orginal

Bad description words

Boring
Cliche
Illiterate
MarySue
OOC
Predictable
Trainwreak

Next to the word there is a slight description of what each word means in that sense. To earn or be critzied by these words, any user must go to the story and rate it using the rating points described below

Rating Points

The number next to each story ranges from -1 to 5. Every week all users recieve 6 points that can be used to make stories look good or bad. The only way to recieve or lose rating points it to review others stories, if many users says your comment is helpful then you have the possiblity of getting more points, and if they say it is bad then you can lose points. You can only rate a story once.

Filter

When a user is logged in they can choose what rating the lowest rating of stories they want to see when searching. (ranging from -1 to 5 default at 0)

Maturity of Content

With every story the author must rated the maturity of the content with these 5 ratings (same as the MPAA ratings)

G
PG
PG-13
R
NC-17

NC-17

To be able to see NC-17 you must be logged in as a user (in the registration process it does not ask the exact age of register just that they are 13 or older)

Sources

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