Story Warnings at The Snarry Reader
Thank you to everyone who participated in our recent poll, and especially to those who took the time to leave comments. You helped us sort through our own thoughts and gave us a bit of backup for our decision regarding warnings on our Master List.

Clearly, people on both sides of this issue feel strongly. Luckily, most stories already have sufficient warnings on the story page and so the issue only centers around a few stories.



The following is what we're going to do:

For those stories we currently link to that don't have any warnings (like those at ISF and Skyehawke), we'll look for alternative links that do have the author's warnings (perhaps the author's website or another archive). We'd appreciate any help you can give us with that. We'll leave this post open for comments so you can leave links.

For those stories for which we can't find a story page that includes the author's authorized warnings, we'll either add our own warnings on the Master List or link to the archive's general author page that does include the warnings.

We'll respect the author's wishes regarding warnings about character deaths and not add extra warnings when the author specifically asks us not to although we might put heavy hints and possibly spoilers in our reviews where we think they're needed. We won't say exactly what happens in the story. The wording would probably be along the lines of "Heavy angst, sensitive readers beware." Or "NOT a happy story." Reviews are behind links and not on the Main List and we'll add a sentence on the main page warning that reviews may contain spoilers.

We're always more than happy to work with any author regarding the way we characterize their story. Our goal is to find a compromise on this question where possible. If for any reason we and the author can't agree, we'll remove the story from our list. We don't expect this to ever happen.