[info]stewardess in [info]07refugees

This Post Contains Explicit Adult Ranting

Six Apart has announced a new censorship tool in lj_biz (for once 6A has linked to a pedophile witch-hunt related development from news, instead of completely burying it in lj_biz).

Amusingly named Voluntary Adult Setting, the feature allows us to flag our own content as adult.

Rest in my insanejournal.

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Posted on Nov. 29th, 2007 at 07:40 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]ktoth04

i'm all for flag that entry as offensive >.>
Posted on Nov. 30th, 2007 03:51 am (UTC) | | Reply

[info]amenosakura

The idea has potential for good things, but the fact it will be outweighed with a multitude of abuse right off the bad bogs it down.
Posted on Nov. 30th, 2007 04:33 am (UTC) | | Reply

[info]keieeeye

I'd like to sincerely thank SA for making my day that much more entertaining.

And again, they bring in something stupid at the end of the week. I can't help noticing this pattern since someone brought it up in the middle of the Strikethroughs.
Posted on Nov. 30th, 2007 04:44 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]tephra

The do most of their major code pushes on Thursday evenings (east coast US time). I'm annoyed they pulled it while I'm sitting here sprinting to the end of NaNo. I was at 23k Monday and I just broke 46k and I just can't take the time to stop and watch SA/LJ be stupid.

[Actually, I like the abilit to flag your journal/community explicit and not having to check the DOB of every member anymore. I just think letting other people flag other people's stuff is monumentally stupid.

And if the one community I have voluntarily set as explicit suddenly has problems it's coming here. I have it set to go already.]
Posted on Nov. 30th, 2007 05:19 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]keieeeye

Yeah, the only problem is how explicit posts are seen by people not logged in. The whole thing gets put behind a generic "explicit" cut so the poster can't actually warn those people exactly what might be explicit/offensive/etc about the entry.
Posted on Nov. 30th, 2007 05:21 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]tephra

Yes, that part wasn't well thought out either. In my specific use, thus far, it's moot since if you aren't logged in you can't see anything anyway.

It's very clear that 6A/LJ has no idea how their users use their service.

What would have been useful was a new type of LJ cut that would trigger the age "verification" rather than flagging an entire post. <lj-age text="blah"> for example. It would look like a normal cut but would do the age check.
Posted on Nov. 30th, 2007 05:54 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]stewardess

Dang, that would have been nifty.
Posted on Nov. 30th, 2007 08:57 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]dragovianknight

Don't you go expecting LJ to do something that makes sense, when they can implement something poorly conceived instead.
Posted on Nov. 30th, 2007 11:38 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]elfwreck

Anyone wanna open a betting pool on how long it'll take to hit 5000 messages? It was posted at 3:30 this afternoon, and has over 1600 in the first seven hours.

Maxing out the messages will prevent them from answering any of the real questions.

Right now, they're politely explaining, over and over, that the "restrictions" only mean an additional cut-tag (with an age verification thingie of some sort) for adults. They are not answering questions about what happens when a minors' journal is flagged (other than to say that the author can always view his/her own content... so far, we're led to believe that teens can't read each other's accounts of having sex, but adults can), nor what standards they're using to decide what's "inappropriate" for under 18's.
Posted on Nov. 30th, 2007 06:23 am (UTC) | | Reply

[info]haruka

If anyone thinks that they're seeing filtered content (not getting those explicit fanfics you're used to, for instance), make sure you have a birthdate in your profile (it doesn't have to be visible to the public), then go here:

http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/

and scroll to the bottom to change your setting to 'no filtered content'
Posted on Dec. 1st, 2007 12:18 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]haruka

Or rather, 'Do not filter my results' is the exact way they word it.
Posted on Dec. 1st, 2007 12:20 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply