Comments | jcortese: That it, I'm off LJ for good if this is the case.

jcortese

That it, I'm off LJ for good if this is the case.

Nov 30, 2007 10:11

I jsut tried to read a post frmo a friend on my frieldlist that told me I was about to read contant unsuitable for minors adn that I had to go back and edit my profile before it would let me see content on my own friendlist.

That's it. Done.

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browneyedgirl65 November 30 2007, 18:13:30 UTC

Well, apparently this was a feature requested by a large number of users. Not something they dreamed up and hit us with.

Hrm.

annajaneclare November 30 2007, 18:19:50 UTC

Oh, for fuck's sake. This is just ridiculous.

browneyedgirl65 November 30 2007, 18:44:25 UTC

http://www.illusiontv.com/news/2007/11/lj-infuriates-fandom-again/

It seems to me that there's a couple of things going on here. First of all, they seem to have an extremely poor way of letting people know what's coming up. I get email alerts from just about every other service I use about new features, but LJ never does this -- they put the updates in an LJ community which you'd have to a) know exists and b) subscribe to in order to know what they're posting.

Second, why not make the feature available as OPT IN? That is, make it possible for someone to mark their own account as adult content, instead of doing that for them? I should think in particular if one is already on a flist there's not much point in suddenly blocking all that preemptively.

It's a crazy way to run things.

remmer November 30 2007, 19:30:21 UTC

And on the flip side, I'd like to be able to set something in my profile that says "I'm OK with this content. Don't bother lj-cutting it." There are already setting for graphics and videos. Would this be terribly different?

I like to read LJ anonymously when I'm away from home so I don't accidentally leave myself logged in somewhere, and the trend appears to be making it increasingly difficult to do so in a useful way.

remmer November 30 2007, 21:54:44 UTC

I'd like to be able to set something in my profile that says "I'm OK with this content. Don't bother lj-cutting it."

It looks like such a setting does exist. I'll play with it tonight.

fizzixrat November 30 2007, 19:41:27 UTC

Who else just went and found the item where they announced this nonsense, and then used their stupid flagging system to report it as offensive content?

Just me? :)

dianyla November 30 2007, 20:03:24 UTC

Well, I *tried* to flag your journal as having Welsh content, but that wasn't an option. :P