S · C · R · I · P · T · S — Experience Rating Standard for Narrative Media
SCRIPTS is a seven-axis experience rating for books, audiobooks, film, streaming, narrative games, and podcasts. Instead of one collapsed star count, your rating carries seven independent scores — so the axis that made or broke the experience stays visible.
Haunting Adeline — SCRIPTS 84/100 ·
9 · 8.5 · 9 · 9.5 · 7.5 · 8 · 7S 9 (Satisfaction): the ending earned the journey. C 8.5 (Characters): leads feel dangerously real. R 9 (Resonance): gut-punch emotional impact. I 9.5 (Intrigue): could not put it down. P 7.5 (Plot): structure holds, middle wobbles. T 8 (Truth): delivers what the blurb promises. S 7 (Style): prose serves the story.
One glance tells you why it scored 84 — the star systems it replaces can't.
| Axis | Name | Asks |
|---|---|---|
| S | Satisfaction | Did it earn its ending? |
| C | Characters | Do they feel real? |
| R | Resonance | Did it make you feel? |
| I | Intrigue | Could you put it down? |
| P | Plot | Did it go somewhere? |
| T | Truth | Did it keep its promise? |
| S | Style | Was it well crafted? |
Each axis is 0–10 (halves permitted). The seven average to a SCRIPTS Score /100. The composite is a summary — the axes are the rating.
SCRIPTS measures what the content did to you — rated by each reader, viewer, or listener individually. Its companion, the SHOW Standard, measures what the content contains — set once on the work itself. The restaurant review and the nutrition label. Neither replaces the other.
The core seven stay constant; secondary axes adapt per lane: Books (Re-readability, Hype vs Reality, Flop), Audiobooks (a full second Performance track — narrator, voice differentiation, fit, pacing, production, listenability), Film & Streaming (Season Consistency, Binge-ability, Finale Satisfaction), Games (Gameplay, Replayability, Value for Money), Comics & Graphic Narrative (Art Consistency, Panel Flow, Update Rhythm), and Podcasts (for non-fiction shows the letters remap: Substance, Chemistry, Relevance, Intrigue, Production, Trust, Satisfaction; fiction podcasts rate on the core Story axes).
Full definitions, lane tables, and display formats are in the specification. The one-page cheat sheet has every axis on a single screen.
Your experience is your own — and it belongs on record. Rate on r8rly.com, where no rating can be purchased, suppressed, or altered by payment.
SCRIPTS is free to implement under CC BY-SA 4.0 with attribution. The canonical specification and its versioning rest with r8rly.org as standards custodian — platforms implement the standard; they do not define it. The R8rly Compass mark and "R8rly Verified" designation remain protected and require platform certification.
SCRIPTS is formalised from community practice — it builds openly on CAWPILE, the seven-axis rating method created by G at Book Roast and adopted by tens of thousands of readers. The honest origin story is in the specification: readers invented dimensional rating; SCRIPTS formalised it.
The SCRIPTS Standard v1.0 · Created by Modern Media Mastery & LMDC · held in trust by r8rly.org · verified on r8rly.com · CC BY-SA 4.0
Companions: SHOW (content classification) · VEIL (generation authorisation)