So...LJ....

[rispacooper]

Just set myself to Adult Concepts (which honestly, I'm fine with, I have no interest in children) but to have to go through all my fanfic links and mark things Adults Only (after I already wrote Adults Only and a thousand other warnings all over the damn things) is a bit, shall we say and for lack of a better phrase, retarded? Many others have already pointed out how easy the age warnings are to get around in the first place and the greater psychological damage being done by kids running across pro-ano sites than by finding some man on man action. (Or any porn for that matter, but that's a debate for another time).

The point is, I'm annoyed that I had to do it, essentially again for the same idiots that couldn't read the warnings the first time.

Also, I doubt anyone on my flist was a minor, but if you were, I probably just de-friended you. (Until you make a fake account and come back as most of the naughty ones no doubt will. Score for you, you 6-Apart super geniuses! You really beat those crafty 16 year olds!)

Anyway, I wonder if the eating disorder and the cutter and the suicide and the sexist pig and the hate crime journals are doing this much work to censor old posts right now... My guess would be no. Because LJ could give a rat's ass about those sorts of journals.

Comments

[lyricl.livejournal.com]

Yeeaaah...There is nothing they could ever do to keep minors out, short of forcing you to show up to an interview with photo id and birth certificate in hand. And even that might not work. As someone who was an internet minor until, oh, 6 months ago, I find some of the restrictions amusing. We (minors) just set up fake accounts with fake birthdates, like you said.

I completely agree. The pro-ana sites *did* do much more damage to me than the slash. Actually, the slash and some of the adults, like Pir8fancier, who I met through it really were a big help to me when I was younger.

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can't quite decide which it will be more, a complete failure, or a total disaster.

Perhaps both.

[paraxdisepink.livejournal.com]

So when do we mark ourselves Explicit adult content, and adult? And we have to go back and tag stuff??

I haven't been keeping up

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

LJ has automatically set everybody's leels to not adult or explicit. You have to do that yourself if you want, and say that you don't mind viewing Adult crap either. Then, since I only set mine to Adult Concepts (I guess like a PG-13) I went back and set every sex story I had to Adult/Explicit.

Nonetheless, after all of that, any idiot could flag me at any time.