Six Apart is at it again.....

Taken an idea and totally boggled the execution.

Some of you may know that you can now set your journal to either "Adult content" (which blocks viewers under 18 from viewing) or "Adult concepts" (which blocks readers under 14). There are also options to flag someone journal as "adults only", which puts it into the queue to the moderators who will look at it and flag it for you.

I suppose that given all the possible responses to their fuck-up with Strikethough, it's not a bad setup in theory.

But as usual, the execution is FUBAR'd six ways to Sunday.

1) They implemented it 2 days before the info even appeared on lj_biz or was sent out to everyone's message center. (Did you know you have a message center? That's what I thought)

2) As a default setting, they have EVERY SINGLE JOURNAL set to filter out the "adult content" setting! So if your friends try to do the right thing and mark their porny LJ's appropriately, you CAN'T SEE THEM until you change your viewing settings. Which is kind of hard to figure out how to, even if you know you have to in the first place.

Go to your User Options page, and click on Journal - settings. The Viewing Options page will appear, and all the way at the bottom is a section called "AdultContent Options". Your "Safe Search Options" has been set to "use moderate filtering - filters explicit and adult content".

So if someone on your F-list has recently dropped off the map and you have no idea why, try going here and changing your settings. Otherwise, if their LJ is set to "adult" you won't be able to see any of their public entries on your friends page.

Sigh - I'm so glad I'm not paying for this crap.....

My LJ settings

This is hereby notice that I will probablt be setting my journal to "Adult Concepts" in about a week or so. This is the setting slightly below "Adult Content", so it should only be blocked if you have manually set your "Safe Searching" options to the highest setting.

(See my previous post if this makes no sense to you)

This is not because I think that my journal should not be read by anyone under 14, but rather that I am concerned about stoopid or annoying people flagging me for "inappropriate content". I am an adult, and sometimes I talk about adult things. I don't want to have to worry about some self-appointed LJ thought police (or a pissed-off ex) trying to get my journal deleted or something because I posted a dirty joke.

For those of you read this journal directly and not through your LJ account, this shouldn't affect anything. If I'm on your Friends List, I don't THINK it will affect you unless you change your settings, but who knows.

I'm a huge advocate for both privacy and free speech, but I respect that there are people who for whatever reason want to filter their online reading. On the off chance that some of them come across this, I think that "Adult Concepts" is the proper tag for my journal.

If I suddenly feel a burning need to start writing Raggedy Ann/Andy incest bondage fic, then I can change the settings later....