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Rachel clarifies the 'child porn' issue.

And by clarifies, just don't talk about anything sexual concerning under eighteens. Period. Even if they're fictional.

Link goes to the journalfen comm set up to discuss 6a stuff, if anyone on JF would like to join that, but that post also has a link to the original entry.
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Posted on Aug. 12th, 2007 at 03:35 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]redscorner

I'll sum up what I commented over there in shorter, more concise words. I told Rachel a. they were asshats b. have committed fraud c. reminded them without the customers, they wouldn't have a product and asked when they forgot that d. reminded them fictional characters = not real e. I think they're going to get the fuck sued out of them and go down in flames and how I just couldn't wait to see that happen. f. for the love of GOD, it is NOT. ABOUT. CHILD. PORNOGRAPHY. because if I see one more post where a staff member goes off on a tangent regarding fandom and child porn, I might go nuclear
Posted on Aug. 12th, 2007 02:26 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]rubyfruit_pixie

Wow. I love the way that Rachel and the other Six Apart people try to take attention away from the fact that they've fucked up and won't fix it by trotting out the dead horse that is kiddie porn and beats it to an even further death.
Posted on Aug. 12th, 2007 02:45 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]poleva

I think that's the part that irritates me the most now.

Users: This is about your horrible customer service. Please tell us what you are going to do to improve that?

LJ: Just don't post the child porn and everything will work out fine!

Users: Um, I wasn't talking about porn, child or otherwise. I just want to know when you are going to begin demonstrating some simple competence.

LJ: No child porn!

Users: ...

(By the way, I looked over your journal and enjoyed what I read and friended you. Hope you don't mind.)
Posted on Aug. 12th, 2007 03:23 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]redscorner

Not at all, I'm *thrilled* to meet new people, even if it is only on TEH INTARWEB. I checked out your profile and such and friended back.

Thanks for letting me know, I'm still waiting on an official response to the suggestion I put in to get email notifications working. I realized how much I depended on them on LJ when I didn't have them here and spazzed. :)
Posted on Aug. 12th, 2007 06:53 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]amorettea

I left LJ not so much because of their porn ban but because of their sheer incompetence. Do they intentionally recruit idiots to work for them because it seems that way.

I wish everyone would leave LJ and settle somewhere new and GET BACK TO WRITING SMUT because that is what the internet is for!
Posted on Aug. 12th, 2007 09:14 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]redscorner

I left for a combination of reasons, but total incompetence was definitely at the top of the list of those reasons. My main issue wasn't so much they decided to start banning users for what they considered child pornography, but more how they did so. Without any warning, any kind of information regarding a change to policies or TOS. I was a paying customer for 8 years and even though the fandoms I'm active in weren't getting such scrutiny, being part of a whole fandom community and seeing how that community was getting attacked just pushed it too far. I was pissed off after strikethrough, but wanted to have hope they'd realize their error and correct it. Since May, all they've done is belittle and mock fandom as a whole and that was my breaking point.

By the way, the icon isn't directed at you, it's directed at them. :)
Posted on Aug. 12th, 2007 09:35 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]ardath_rekha

Well, that pretty much says that all of the RPGs set in high school, on LJ, have to pack up and leave. Any "coming-of-age" stories have to go. References to American Pie are hereby criminalized. And American Beauty? That's so out of bounds.

Do they even realize how much mainstream culture falls under the banned heading? And how many of their non-fandom mainstream users are now in violation by those guidelines?

...Wait a second, this is Rachel we're talking about... she's already demonstrated repeatedly that she's an utter and complete idiot.

God, I'm glad I already packed up my toys and left that place.
Posted on Aug. 12th, 2007 06:03 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]wndx

But the mainstream media makes money - so that must mean it has "artistical merit".

What a bunch of morons.
Posted on Aug. 12th, 2007 06:45 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]nvr_brkn

JF link won't work. Post an alternative one, please?
Posted on Aug. 12th, 2007 06:11 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]teh_kittykat

Original LJ comment thread

Anyone else noticing how when people actively talk of leaving LJ on the communities, a magical LJ mod shows up to make things even worse?
Posted on Aug. 12th, 2007 08:28 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]vincent_z

If LJ / 6 Apart is going to head down this road, any or all discussions about the motion picture "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" (1982) are going to result in bannings and terminations. [Phoebe Cates' & Jennifer Jason-Leigh's characters' ages.]

Posted on Aug. 15th, 2007 08:20 am (UTC) | | Reply