Quote Originally Posted by H Dean
Frankly, if such a code were available I might be tempted to write a snuff tale where the closing read "he killed her really, really, really dead" just so I could use an "Extreme Snuff" rating for my story. Because, the three usages of "really"...well, you get my drift.
hmmm, of course that is a point.. death is death... but by that token.. isnt sex.. just sex?.. whats with all these codes? whats the differance between nc and rape? bondage and torture? MMMMg and Fb+ ?

It is about telling the reader exactly what to expect.. for example:

I could write:

He had sex with her (enter a whole story about having sex) and then poisoned her.

Or I could write:

After fucking her, he dosed he little whore with enough GHB to keep her concious, but only just; thereafter, he preceeded to cut quater inch squares out of her skin at quater inch intervals. Chequering her entire body in a grotesque parody of a chess board. With each square he cut, she lost more blood. Soon she grew weary, and her eyes began to droop. He took this as a sign to finish her off, and pulled out an axe, before hacking the limp girls body limb from limb.

They are both snuff, but one would have been all about sex, where the victim dies at the end. Where as the other is all about mutilating the victim towards an inevitable death:

One focuses on the sex.. one on the death.

get me?