more LJ WTF...

[ratcreature]

So I've been reading some question and answer threads to understand their new rules, and apparently if someone else flags a post of yours as "explicit" and the abuse team agrees, it will be administratively flagged, but you won't even be notified as a journal owner that they put restrictions on your content. In this comment the LJ employee marta explains: "The Adult setting is actually only voluntary, it won't ever be forced. It's the Explicit one which could be set administratively. If an individual post is set the owner won't be contacted. But if a journal or community has the setting put on it (again, multiple flags, review, agree first) the journal owner or community maintainer will receive an email. [...]"

Seriously, what?!? So now I won't even be notified if they administratively restrict my journal content and change the labelling of some of my journal entries?!?

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[caia-comica.livejournal.com]

Holy fuck. Is there even an easy way of *checking* this?

[ratcreature]

I don't think so. I mean, you'd probably have to go through your own stuff manually while logged out or something. I have really no idea why they won't at least send a form letter when they restrict and filter your journal. I commented in that thread, because frankly I find it unacceptable that they'd change my LJ and I'm not even notified about it.

[iamza.livejournal.com]

Sigh. In theory this whole flag thing sounds okay, but practically? It ignores the fact that people are people. Kids who want to see the mature content are going to lie about their birthdates, people are going to make inappropriate use of the flag function because they don't like it, or because they have issues with the original poster, or because they think it's funny (and I sorta do think it's funny that folks are flagging the lj_biz flag-post as offensive). It seems to add another layer of complication for little return. *shrug*

As for the non-notification of administrative changes to journals -- that's just ridiculous. Seriously, if the abuse team can go to the effort of changing a journal entry's settings, they can damn well make the effort of informing the journal owner that they have done so.

(edited to correct typo)

[ratcreature]

if the abuse team can go to the effort of changing a journal entry's settings, they can damn well make the effort of informing the journal owner that they have done so.


yes, exactly. One form letter to send should pale as far as effort goes compared to reviewing journal entries in the first place.