goals and guidelines

[barakb25]

As promised, I want to clarify any confusion there may have been about our policies regarding your content on LiveJournal.

Our number one goal is to encourage and promote a free and open community. We will only intervene to the extent needed to avoid the site being used as a vehicle for illegal activities. The policies are simple.

• We do not

Comments

[vakkotaur]

So, does "interests" mean "interests" or does it mean 'like' in your world? Your second to last paragraph only almost addresses this.

[burr86]

This was addressed in my previous post. :)

[kerr_avon]

It was? I missed it. Could you put a link to that post here, please.

[snarkbite]

for your reference: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/240884.html

:)

[kerr_avon]

Thank you. Much appreciated. ;^)

[nikibee]

So that other people don't have to go searching...

To be clear: listing an illegal activity in your interests list isn't a violation of the Terms of Service in isolation, and we won't equate individual interests with activities you support or advocate. Instead, we will consider journals and profiles as a whole, in context, to determine whether they violate our policies.

[kutsuwamushi]

I just went back and read your post, but I'm still not clear. You said this, which is very reassuring (at least about the interests weirdness):To be clear: listing an illegal activity in your interests list isn't a violation of the Terms of Service in isolation, and we won't equate individual interests with activities you support or advocate. Instead, we will consider journals and profiles as a whole, in context, to determine whether they violate our policies.
But then this post says this:Your profile is part of your journal. If your profile, taken as a whole, breaks these policies, we will treat it the same as if it were in an entry or comment.
Which seems to imply that profiles will still be evaluated out of context.

In practical terms, if I list "rape" as an interest but mention in my bio that I'm a mental health worker who works with rape survivors, I'm fairly sure that I'm safe. But what if there's no other info in my profile to go on? What does "evaluating the profile as a whole" mean then?

[longlongwaytogo]

I noticed that inconsistency also.

[kateshort]

I'd assume that they "will consider journals and profiles as a whole, in context." If it's clear from your profile that your interest in rape is due to your work with survivors, then that's enough context to be able to see why "rape" is one of your interests. If it isn't clear from your profile, then I'd assume that they might look at your actual journal entries as well.

[qfemale]

What if I use rape in my fanfiction because it's something the character I write went through? Does that mean, even though my jorunal is not dominantely a fanfiction journal that I have to write a bio of every damn character I write for just because I put rape into my list of interests?

[beckyzoole]

If I wrote just one fanfic about a character that had been raped, I probably wouldn't consider rape one of my interests. But if it were a recurring theme, so much so that I did take an interest in rape and researched it and so forth, then I would probably put something in my bio about it too.

I wouldn't write a whole bio of every character, just a disclaimer like "I sometimes write fanfic, often including the sexual abuse of the characters. Don't read these these stories if you are triggered by descriptions of rape and its psychological effects."

I'd include a line like that even if it weren't for strikethrough2007 and worries about journal deletion, just because it's the fair and polite thing to do. Anything that could be traumatic to a reasonable person, I put behind an LJ cut or just don't make it public.

[qfemale]

I put that kind of warning in the header of the story, sometimes even link to certain wikipages if I write about something that might trigger somebody but it's not a widely known things.

But I used to have many interested that would pop up in my fictional work. So basically I would have to explain all of my interests in my bio and that's just not something I fee like doing.

[apapazukamori]

You could list "rape fiction" as your interest instead of just "rape", or perhaps as an additional one to help provide context.

[ksol1460]

Well, I was worried about this interest thing ages ago and censorship (devotee of Jello Biafra that I am), so instead of writing "marijuana" in my interests, I wrote "marijuana legalization" to give a different picture. Making the interest more explicit. You could maybe have "rape narrations" or "rape in fiction".

[janeaverage]

Tsk! You know what happens when you "assume."

[qfemale]

Does this mean you are going to remove the word 'interests' from the user info pages now because otherwise it makes no sense at all!