Do you have a flag?!?

[medusasquirrel]

Hello big-ass LJ "flag this journal" link.  Nice user-interface to place it in such a prominent location.  Is everyone seeing this - or is it just me?

This seems awfully annoying, and particularly irksome given my circle of friends and our interests.  

Comments

[wicked_smile_4u]

I've read the FAQ's and some of the answers to the 1749 comments they've gotten so far today, and I think this is as well-thought out and fair a policy as we could have asked for or expected, to try to provide SOME kind of filtering ABILITY for the parents minors.

YOU decide whether you want to mark your whole journal (which I will probably do) as Adult Content, or flag particular posts. If you do that, accounts belonging to people under 14 won't see them in searches, and if they are reading your journal, will see an LJ cut instead of the content in a flagged post.

If someone else flags your unflagged post as adult content, nothing happens unless you get multiple flags from various people. Then, it goes to an Abuse Prevention Committee, to see if it really is adult content, and if so the WORST they will do to you is to flag the entry for you. Or maybe your account if more than half your posts are adult. And again...only 14 and unders (and people not logged in) will see any difference. Nothing happens to you, or to your content.

Nobody can flag more than 5 posts in 24 hours, and anybody who starts abusing flags will find their flags 'invisible'. The abuse committee won't see them, and they won't count against the # of flags it takes to get your post reviewed.

Personally, I think it would behoove us all to just mark our journals Adult Content if we are going to talk about BDSM and/or post erotic pix. Do we really LIKE the idea that a 13 year old could be reading and commenting? And if they're mature enough to want to and be welcome...they're old enough to figure out how to lie to LJ about their birthday.

We're basically being asked to volunteer to be responsible for our speech, just as we would in a public restaurant with kids in the next booth. And if we aren't, it's not going to matter at all unless it turns out that there are kids or their parents in large quantities IN our booth who actually mind. Realistically...I can't see that happening very often.