Flagging

[louiselux]

It's blowing a gale outside and raining hard. It's good being inside with tea and internets and writing.

However! I've been attempting to manage my stress levels by mostly ignoring the LJ flagging thing, but I'm failing because every time I see 'flag' on someone's post it gives me a nasty little shock and I get all mad. What's the point of it, if you can already just contact the abuse team about a post you are offended by? Also, their definition of offended is gloriously vague. As far as I can tell there is still no clear system for judging the complaint either.

I haven't changed my journal settings to 'adult concepts' or 'explicit adult content'. I can see how this might be genuinely useful though, to protect oneself. Especially now that LJ have upped the stakes.

Comments

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I changed my settings, thanks for the tip.

So, is it the case that you only see the 'flag' link on a journal's entries if that journal has changed its own settings to 'adult concepts' or 'explicit adult material'? I'm slightly confused about this.

[inksheddings.livejournal.com]

Yes, if you set up your journal to flag the entire thing as either adult concepts or explicit content, all the entries will have that flagging lj-cut automatically.

Or you can simply flag specific entries and not your entire journal. If I wanted to, for example, I could go back and edit all my NC-17 fics and flag them for content. Only those specific entries would then have the flagging cut. I would never see those cuts, though, because of how I have my settings, well, set up.

And yes! It is confusing. :S

[kanzenhanzai.livejournal.com]

Actually, the flag button shows up if the journal hasn't already been marked as having adult content.

The journal owner can either set the whole lj as having adult content, or just mark specific posts (the second option seems like the better one if someone's actually going to bother with this stuff. When you mark the whole lj, anyone who's not logged in or hasn't changed their settings sees all your posts put under an lj-cut warning for content. Really annoying!)