more clarifications

[burr86]

We're seeing a lot of confusion in the comments to our previous post. Our intention is to provide clarification, not to create concern. All it says is that things that are illegal under United States law aren't allowed here, either. (And as a note to our non-US users: yeah, we know since the laws are different, they can be really confusing to

Comments

[jigglypuff]

This is because of AS/S. I'm sure of it.

Either way, this is... tl;dr, all I get is that you're going all legal on our asses.

[meetviolent]

AS/S mention ftw.

FTW I SAY.

[jigglypuff]

And on the first page.

[hearts_erised]

I agree

AS/S is my new OTP

[ex_severed_]

LMAO! I wonder if this applies to public AND locked posts? That was never answered.

[jigglypuff]

...uh-oh.

[entropy_house]

I would assume it does, because in the fuss that started all this, at least one suspended community was all-adult, all-locked, all membership by invite only.

LJ says they will only act upon reports, which makes it sound as if locked posts make a journal safe, but if someone uses interest search for keywords that LJ doesn't like, you can be reported without them reading a single word of your journal.

It's a pity, I liked interest search, but it's not safe, so I deleted all my interests except Freedom of Speech.

[boredinsomniac]

Sure, you can be reported, but LJ probably won't act on such a report. Quote from above:

"[We] require anyone who reports something to us, to provide specific examples of our policies being violated -- links to individual entries, rather than links to entire journals"

Someone who can't read your journal is hardly in a position to provide links to individual entries as examples.

[entropy_house]

I had the impression they're saying that was the policy all along. It wasn't.

Some closed/locked comm journals were suspended on the basis of their interest list *alone*. The journal maintainers were told that by LJ Support, who said further that they *weren't allowed* to make judgment calls based on the content of the journal.

'Policy' varies without notice.

LJ has stated that they consider the info page an 'advertisement' for your journal, representative of the journal as a whole. Therefore it's safest not to 'advertise' anything you believe might cause a witchhunt.

Yes, I'm paranoid, which feels stupid. But I'd feel even more stupid if my journal was suspended because of one word in my interest list.

[katho]

I think the mass strikeout was more of a panicked damage control measure. After everyone was suspended based on interests, they looked through and reinstated tons of journals. Now I don't know if the fact that you were judged and found OK is enough to ride on, but I think the supposed point of this is that they wouldn't (theoretically) be doing any more mass suspensions. Obviously, though, they might in another fit of panic.

[entropy_house]

The mass suspension was definitely panic. The review and reinstatements were also a result of panic, IMO.

The people who were suspended were told they were 'permanently suspended', not 'suspended, pending review'.

The TOS says you 'might' get a review. It's not a guarantee. If there hadn't been a horde of loud complaints, I honestly believe LJ would not have checked out even one of the mass suspensions, but left them all suspended.

[katho]

Hmm. I wasn't around over that weekend, so my view of it was remarkably calmed by the fact that by the time I was in on it, mostly everything was back.

[jigglypuff]

Holy shit. I was third. Insert spaz.

[xalifesochanged]

ZOMG!!!

ILY <3

[blurredfate]

I laughed so hard when I saw this comment, with a first-page win to boot.

[infinitegraces]

FTW.