Nanny LJ strikes again

[firiel44]

So LJ has a new "protect the kiddies" feature for people to abuse. A flagging system is like setting out a giant dish of troll bait for any petty person (or group) who disagrees with anyone else.

Note also that the entire story is tucked away in lj_biz and only mentioned in passing in news. You should probably go change your preference settings, unless you

Comments

[alto2]

At least they made it so that you don't have to have the year displayed. Not ideal, but better than an all or nothing birthdate option.

[firiel44]

Yeah, I finally found that option. For a while I thought I had to be yearless and deal with everything cut, or make the date invisible altogether, which seriously pissed me off.

[alto2]

I agree with you. And when I looked at my settings, I thought "What does LJ consider adult content? I curse in my journal--does that mean I have adult content? Or is that restricted to the sort of Pornish Pixies-ish stuff that caused the last brouhaha? Some guidelines would be damned helpful, here!

[firiel44]

Exactly. My flist is arguably part of my journal, and all sorts of stuff shows up in torchwood. What if I link to fic or discussion? It's like they didn't realize anyone would have a problem with this, or that it wouldn't make as perfect sense to others as it did to them. Or, more cynically, it was purposely confusing and crazy-making to distract from the sale.

[visionofblue]

GJ seems to be managing things only slightly better than LJ at the moment. Heh. I just got a heads-up from my flist that Greatest Journal made an official news announcement telling people to sign up to IJ instead, because GJ's servers weren't handling the influx of new users well. *facepalm*