A Day on the Internet: Early Morning Edition

[heidi8]

Well, midafternoon for those of you in the UK and "Saturday" for those very far to the east.

In case you missed it yesterday, lj_biz announced that the code/process for deeming an LJ or individual posts on an LJ as "explicit adult content" or "adult concepts" - the former will block those under 18 from seeing it, and the latter will block those under

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[teaberryblue]

...I abuse the community tag editing ALL THE TIME

[heidi8]

Do you edit all of the tags to include mentions of pie and/or saddle shoes?

[teaberryblue]

...I edit the tags to mention Gay Dumbledore and quote Broadway musicals?

[ancarett]

See, my problem with their suggestions that communities start setting the bar higher by creating themselves as "Adult Content" or "Explicit Adult Content" defaults, means that we are going to take a hit on the next generation of fans. They'll either make false profiles to get access to "forbidden content" or they'll go elsewhere to read the stuff

[jiggery_pokery]

Fully agree with you about LJ's implementation of the adult filtering program - agree that there's not so much to flap about as some people have done, agree with you about what there still is to flap about, agree with you about how they should resolve the issues that arise.