For those of you who haven't seen the latest lj_policy post, it contains a rather disturbing lack of communication regarding the blocked search terms.

I haven't had time to read through all the comments yet, but those that I have read appear to be various versions of " Sorry, we can't elaborate at this time."

I've just had a rather alarming piece of hearsay pop up on my friends list- apparently users are now being deleted for having those same search interests that we've been investigating here. With the same strings and roots that led to things like "baby grapes" being unsearchable. The word is that users with innocent interests can petition LJ to be ( Read more... )

There's been a bit of talk regarding demonstrations towards LJ by either deleting accounts or other similar methods en masse, to provide a numerical show of dissatisfaction ( Read more... )

marta has posted here, giving us updates on two of our pressing issues:

1. Regarding the SUP "latest visitors" feature, we have been informed it should not be an issue soon:
   
   Just as an FYI, that functionality will be turned off today. If you check back by tonight you should see that non-SUP users will not show up at all on this program.
2. Regarding the ( Read more... )

Hello everybody!

Just posting to keep everyone updated on any changes to the community, or any news on the front.

1. The community has now turned on moderated posting. It was something I had considered from the outset, and has been recommended by fellow moderators and members alike. Since a community like this shouldn't be making new posts all the ( Read more... )

i was just rereading the latest update on the flagging system, and this jumped out at me:

Based upon your feedback, the search settings for all users over the age of 18 will be set to not filter any content. This change will happen on the next code release. Please note that this is for existing journals only - new accounts will be set to Moderate ( Read more... )