Six Apart is at it again.....

[wendyzski]

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.....

Comments

[capi.livejournal.com]

*heh* Gotta wonder what they'll make of some of Dani's icons. *LOL*

Thanks for the heads' up, Wendy. I've already had someone's BIRTHDAY WISH come up protected. And it was *nothing*. I guess it was because of the word "natal", eh? YEESH!

So i used your directions and updated my profile. Gave a false birthdate year, too. I hate the idea of anybody being able to find me via accurate birth information. *L* So i lied!!! I *lied*!!!!!!!

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

Well, if that person has set their LJ to "adult content" to protect themselves because they talk about sex or write poetry about suicide or write true crime novels, then EVERYTHING in it is marked that way, even if today they are talking about My Little Ponies.

[capi.livejournal.com]

Oh! I did not ken that the setting was designed to protect the WRITER. I thought it was about protecting the VIEWER. OY VEY. I'd better go back and check my settings to see what i've done and what i need to have done..... As if i know! *L*

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

Well, "protection" can go both ways.

There were some people who wrote about true crime, or who talk about Lolita fashion, whose journals were caught up in the big "Strikethrough" brouhaha a couple of months ago. Their journals were frozen and/or deleted for "inappropriate content" because things like "murder" or "incest" were found in their "Interests" section. There were also some groups for survivors of sexual abuse who were temporarily shut down until the whole mess was sorted out, and that took weeks. In addition to the people who write Harry Potter porn, these people too are setting their LJs to "Adult Content" so that they can't get into trouble for their interests.

And I have several friends who write erotica and either post it or post links to it on their LJs. If they do the "right thing" and put their settings to reflect "adult content", then EVERYTHING on it will disappear unless you change your settings. One of my other friends had 24 people's posts suddenly re-appear on her F-list once she changed her settings.

[lisagems.livejournal.com]

The really funny thing... at least 3 of the reappearing posts were *about* LJ's latest stupidity.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

And as I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, if someone has set their LJ to "Adult content" then ALL of their posts will be filtered unless you change YOUR settings, even if today they are talking about My Little Ponies. And not in that way, pervert.