Meta Roundup

On LiveJournal's new Voluntary Adult Setting / Flagging Tools

elfwreck wrote a post with links and quotes -- Answers about the new policy (including info on how to change the settings).

According to msilverstar (in 07refugees), RSS feeds are unaffected. Eta one day later: no, apparently not. See this comment.

justhuman: LJ stuff: "My initial impression is that despite some inconveniences, it's a good thing (...) [B]oth of these work a lot like the security settings on LJ with the exception of no custom filters."

stewardess: This Post Contains Explicit Adult Ranting: "While the cynical Voluntary Adult Setting will do nothing to protect the delicate constitutions of America's youth, it will benefit Six Apart in the form of new accounts. (...) It also finally forces members to fill out the birthdate field—might not be valid, but it's still pretty to advertisers." (Note: post contains a link to WfI, users reported their site uses spyware.)

firefly124: Pondering the latest nonsense: "Now, as to stuff others might think ought to be flagged? This would be where I get pissy. I imagine the "gay marriage" tag would bring up a few such posts, for just one example, and now that can be flagged by anyone who wants to, and I wouldn't even know about it."

And last but not least, celandineb has a poll on the issue.

Other LJ-related News:

dragovianknight reports that the maximum number of tags are reduced to 1000.