sometimes sanity takes vacation time on me (keieeeye) wrote in ideas,
Well personally, I can see how the tool would be incredibly useful, but I can also see that if Squeaky even tried to bring it in, a lot of people would be very, very unhappy, even given the assurances above because some people lack critical thinking and go with the herd :P.
Our authors warn, rate and lj-cut, and we don't want to make our (shy) lurkers become members if they don't want to.
They wouldn't have to. The tool would only be used when someone actually is joining the asylum. It wouldn't use the stupid censoring cuts. The only way it's at all similar to what LJ uses is that, IF you choose to turn it on (which I imagine would just mean clicking a box that says you're 18), it tells the maintainer of an asylum that you're 18 if you try to join and the asylum has an "18+" flag (which I imagine would just mean clicking a box that says "this asylum is 18+"). It wouldn't be used to censor anything, just to cut down on the work of checking every prospective member's userinfo to see what their birthdate is.
but others might, ie: Warriors of idioc- er- Innocence and their likes.