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zinnithOk, about this new adult content flagging thing?
I might be old-fashioned and traditional, but isn't it the parents who should have the responsibility for making sure their poor wee innocent kids don't read 'inapropriate' material. There are all kinds of surf filters you can install if you want to keep your offspring ignorant of the facts of life. And, let me be honest, if I was a parent I'd much rather my kid read fandom porn than watched the traditional kind.
Also - what is 'inapropriate'? What happens if somone comes across my writing and goes: "Gaaah, fags, fags, a journal full of fags! Won't someone please think of the children?" I am certainly not going to adjust my settings so that a large part of fandom won't be able to read my stories.
And what about the writers who are under the age of 18? Do they get to view their own journals? Are you going to censor what young people write as well as what they read? Sorry to make you disappointed, but the imagination of a person under 18 does not consist of fluffy sheep, wild flowers and little ducklings.
And last - what are you doing to make sure that a person who says s/he is 18 really is 18? Are we going to have to verify our age from now on? Send you a copy of our birth certificates? If so, who's going to open all those thousands and thousands of letters?
In short, dear LJ-staff, the idea gets you this:
*waiting for this entry to be flagged for use of the word 'porn'*
I might be old-fashioned and traditional, but isn't it the parents who should have the responsibility for making sure their poor wee innocent kids don't read 'inapropriate' material. There are all kinds of surf filters you can install if you want to keep your offspring ignorant of the facts of life. And, let me be honest, if I was a parent I'd much rather my kid read fandom porn than watched the traditional kind.
Also - what is 'inapropriate'? What happens if somone comes across my writing and goes: "Gaaah, fags, fags, a journal full of fags! Won't someone please think of the children?" I am certainly not going to adjust my settings so that a large part of fandom won't be able to read my stories.
And what about the writers who are under the age of 18? Do they get to view their own journals? Are you going to censor what young people write as well as what they read? Sorry to make you disappointed, but the imagination of a person under 18 does not consist of fluffy sheep, wild flowers and little ducklings.
And last - what are you doing to make sure that a person who says s/he is 18 really is 18? Are we going to have to verify our age from now on? Send you a copy of our birth certificates? If so, who's going to open all those thousands and thousands of letters?
In short, dear LJ-staff, the idea gets you this:
*waiting for this entry to be flagged for use of the word 'porn'*
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Ranting
Date: 2007-11-30 08:40 pm (UTC)Point being, I think flagging entries will be about as much use. I understand giving stories/images ratings and warnings because it gives people the opportunity to choose whether they want to look at it and if they get offended after that then its their own fault. Realistically kids will always find a way to look at restricted content, and without the support of parents (seriously, Manhunt, for an 8 year old!), this policy has no chance.
Rant over...at least until I go to work and smile nicely at the people who may be raising the next generation of sociopaths (according to some studies).