Making people with awkward interests disappear was too messy, SO...
Holy shit, y'all.
I can't believe that I'm making YET ANOTHER post about stuff LJ/SA-now-SUP are pulling, but here we go:
Now lj is censoring interests from their "Most Popular Interests" page.
That is, these are still among the most popular listed interests on lj, but they don't APPEAR on that page. Non-listed interests include:
Sex
Ohmigawd! People like sex! We can't have THAT on a site which - like nearly all blogging sites and message boards - requires you to have hit puberty to use the service.
Boys, Girls
...Evidently, we're not supposed to be interested in each other. Especially not lj's teen userbase.
Fanfiction, Yaoi
Livejournal's thoughts on yaoi. They will not show you them.
(Livejournal doesn't REALLY hate fandom, though. That's unfounded paranoia, based on no solid evidence but the previous witch-hunts and other small spots of confusion and miscommunication like that.)
Hardcore, Porn, Bondage
Blah, blah, sex is BAD, mmmkay?
Faeries
SRSLY?!
Pain, Depression, Bisexuality
...
WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK, LJ?
(Sidenote: People have suggested that "pain" and "depression" were removed as interests too closely related to self-injury and suicide, but curiously, "blood" remains on the list. [Count: 63701]
Also, "intelligence" is third from the bottom on that list. I weep for future generations.)
Keep in mind - these are the most popular interests. There is no real logic to their disappearance from the "Most Popular Interests" page - advertisers who want this information can probably still get it. If it affects the sort of ads that will appear on lj, any "for appearances" reason lj might have had to censor these interests is entirely moot. The only people who now can't access this information are US, the USERBASE.
Really, what the HELL is going on? This just makes no damn sense.
I can't believe that I'm making YET ANOTHER post about stuff LJ/SA-now-SUP are pulling, but here we go:
Now lj is censoring interests from their "Most Popular Interests" page.
That is, these are still among the most popular listed interests on lj, but they don't APPEAR on that page. Non-listed interests include:
Sex
Ohmigawd! People like sex! We can't have THAT on a site which - like nearly all blogging sites and message boards - requires you to have hit puberty to use the service.
Boys, Girls
...Evidently, we're not supposed to be interested in each other. Especially not lj's teen userbase.
Fanfiction, Yaoi
Livejournal's thoughts on yaoi. They will not show you them.
(Livejournal doesn't REALLY hate fandom, though. That's unfounded paranoia, based on no solid evidence but the previous witch-hunts and other small spots of confusion and miscommunication like that.)
Hardcore, Porn, Bondage
Blah, blah, sex is BAD, mmmkay?
Faeries
SRSLY?!
Pain, Depression, Bisexuality
...
WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK, LJ?
(Sidenote: People have suggested that "pain" and "depression" were removed as interests too closely related to self-injury and suicide, but curiously, "blood" remains on the list. [Count: 63701]
Also, "intelligence" is third from the bottom on that list. I weep for future generations.)
Keep in mind - these are the most popular interests. There is no real logic to their disappearance from the "Most Popular Interests" page - advertisers who want this information can probably still get it. If it affects the sort of ads that will appear on lj, any "for appearances" reason lj might have had to censor these interests is entirely moot. The only people who now can't access this information are US, the USERBASE.
Really, what the HELL is going on? This just makes no damn sense.