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metaphorge ([personal profile] metaphorge) wrote2007-10-22 12:58 pm

adult content flagging comes to LiveJournal: the POLL

(This poll relates directly to this previous entry.)
[Poll #1075683]
This is, of course, accepting that we have no idea as of yet how LJ-Abuse will handle such reports, nor how having your content or your entire journal flagged as "adult" will affect access to it by other LiveJournal users and the general public....

[identity profile] iamsquid.livejournal.com 2007-10-22 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
This isn't a government institution, it's a private website, the owners can do what they want.

Do I think they should? No.

Does it really matter? Not to mee.

[identity profile] metaphorge.livejournal.com 2007-10-22 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
While yes, of course, they can pursue the course of action they wish, we don't have any obligation to remain their customers.

It's also unclear at this time whether being flagged as having "adult content" in your LJ will cause only age-verified LiveJournal users to be able to read your journal at all, which makes the issue much more potentially problematic.

[identity profile] warpanda.livejournal.com 2007-10-22 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree. Six Apart can do what they want, but we don't have to pay for thier services.

Of course, as a free user, I really don't pay, nor would I. I was going to consider the Lifetime account special, but it came on the heels of the Strikeout, and I decided then that Six Apart can only use me for thier advertising impressions and that's it.

[identity profile] iamsquid.livejournal.com 2007-10-22 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
there are a million blogging communities online, if people get frustrated enough with LJ, they'll find another

and actually, for years people who had been on my LJ flist have been moving to blogspot, blogger, etc.

[identity profile] metaphorge.livejournal.com 2007-10-22 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course. I'm not taking a chicken little approach to this, I just simply will no longer be a paying customer and will drastically reassess what, if anything, I'll use LJ for.

(It's also worth mentioning that this sort of thing is smack in the middle of my field of professional interest, so I'm going to find it more interesting than most people are.)

[identity profile] iamsquid.livejournal.com 2007-10-22 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
And if yoo can mobilize a bunch of paid members and get the point across to the LJ admin that they will be losing money by doing this, it's likely they'll listen.

I suppose since I neither pay to use LJ, nor let ads appear on my LJ, I don't feel as strongly as other people do.