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[theljstaff]

Concerns regarding Adult Content programWe wanted to address some concerns about the program put in place last month regarding adult content. This system came about due to a variety of legal, community, and industry standards. There are no punitive measures for deciding not to participate, and is designed so that logged-in users over the age of

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[marta]

At this time we don't have a set standard for "multiple" because a) depending on different factors it may fluctuate and b) we don't want to encourage people to encourage a certain number of users to also flag something.

[7rin]

Ooooh... your user pic's no longer bald! Happy unbaldness. ;)

[rileysaplank]

On point B wouldn't a quick rise in flagging that stops on or just over the "magic figure" help indicate that people are abusing the system though?

[elfwreck]

I suspect (and I know nothing of what's involved) that the number is "more than three, less than twenty." Because an entry should have more complaints than "me and my couple of friends that I asked to look at it found it offensive"--OTOH, if a not-very-popular journal gets 16 complaints on a post, that's fairly substantial.

The problem is balancing in the popularity: dark_christian's posts are ready by (hypothetically) 1500 people, plus random passersby, and it talks about politics; it wouldn't take much at all for several dozen people to take an extreme dislike to a post. OTOH, elf_works, my fic journal, is pretty much dead and unknown--and eight complaints about a single post there would indicate that people found it very offensive indeed