[info]diachrony in [info]07refugees

LJ: the removed interests are now back on the "most popular" list

See: http://community.livejournal.com/the_lj_herald/80784.html

And read comments. Apparently, all the edited-out popular interests have returned - Sex, Boys, Guys, Girls, Fanfiction, Yaoi, Hardcore, Porn, Bondage, Faeries, Pain, Depression, and Bisexuality are all back on the Most Popular list.

Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 at 01:01 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]bella_lumina

Just out of curiousity, why would faeries be banned as an interest? I'm pretty sure I had that listed as an interest at one point.
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 08:41 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]wolfsilveroak

Because it could mean either flamboyant gay men or the mythological creature. So they blanket excluded it.
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 09:38 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]bella_lumina

Ugh, that's so stupid. God, LJ sucks.
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 09:45 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]wolfsilveroak

Agreed.
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 09:52 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]scorpio

i wonder why they'd get rid of "boys" and "girls" in the first place...

and faeries is just mind boggling o_O
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 09:32 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]wolfsilveroak

Because girls and boys may be pedophile code words.

And fairies I explained above.}:)
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 09:39 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]littlegirllover

code words

lmao. Now that brings back some memories: "beside, you use code words" - lj abuse.

(I'm thinking that was their thinking on faeries, for sure - they's little, and magical too - like tinkerbell, e.g.)
Posted on Mar. 18th, 2008 01:44 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]wolfsilveroak

You know, I asked my husband who has a computer programming degree, how you *accidentally* drop in a line of code that is exactingly specific in it's excluding of certain search terms.

His response?

You can't. Not accidentally.

This was deliberate and they know it. They were hoping *we* wouldn't notice.
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 09:37 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]scorpio

ugh.... yeah you know it kind of insults me that they would feel the need to exclude those terms when the sexual connotation actually had to be explained to me. not everyone is as perverted as they'd like to think. jesus christ >:^[ it just makes THEM look bad.
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 09:45 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]stewardess

Yes, it wasn't an accident. They had to add all those terms to a file containing keywords to exclude from the top interests output. That file, apparently called INTERESTS_KW_FILTER, can't be changed by "mistake."
Posted on Mar. 18th, 2008 12:47 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]valady

Marta answered RM about the 'mistake' here.

http://news.livejournal.com/106909.html?thread=70124701#t70124701

Now let's see what SUP/LJ has to say about it. I'm betting on another corporatespeak explanation.
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 09:47 pm (UTC) | | Reply

[info]pen

I'm curious if others who've been actively posting in the news or ljspeaks also received hits from the New York Times this morning.
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 09:57 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]blktauna

How would one know?
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 10:06 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]pen

lj.toys.org.uk and other hit counters will give a list of hits.
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 10:07 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]stewardess

Why the NY Times?
Posted on Mar. 18th, 2008 12:47 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]pen

I got 5. 3 on LJ, and 2 here. At about 9am this morning.

OrgName: The New York Times
OrgID: NYT-1
Address: 229 West 43rd Street
City: New York
StateProv: NY
PostalCode: 10036
Country: US

NetRange: 170.149.0.0 - 170.149.255.255
CIDR: 170.149.0.0/16
NetName: NYTCO
NetHandle: NET-170-149-0-0-1
Parent: NET-170-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
Comment:
RegDate: 1994-05-18
Updated: 2002-03-11

RTechHandle: ZT84-ARIN
RTechName: The New York Times
RTechPhone: +1-212-556-1234
RTechEmail: hostmaster@nytimes.com
Posted on Mar. 18th, 2008 01:23 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]pen

I've never seen that IP before, or any NYTs IP addy. Could be a coincidence, but I kind of wonder at the timing of LJ's fixing the mistake.
Posted on Mar. 18th, 2008 01:25 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]broken_crystal

Why would they get rid of depression? How stupid!
Posted on Mar. 18th, 2008 12:13 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]dechant

As if we didn't feel isolated enough...
Posted on Mar. 18th, 2008 04:50 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]broken_crystal

EXACTLY. I really hate how a lot of people want to sweep us under the rug and act like we are not allowed to be depressed, as if we chose it.
Posted on Mar. 18th, 2008 01:34 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]akai_senshi

...Like we chose to be gay? [/snark]
Posted on Mar. 18th, 2008 07:19 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]broken_crystal

Oh now, of COURSE you can't be gay on Livejournal. It would be against whatever freakish Christian extremist company that was that caused the whole strikethrough last year.
Posted on Mar. 18th, 2008 09:45 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]akai_senshi

You can take the interests back, but you sure as hell can't take back the homophobic sentiment.
Posted on Mar. 18th, 2008 07:21 pm (UTC) | | Reply