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

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

I think, personally, that in theory it's a fine concept. I just really, really don't trust LJ not to pull an ffn.net and say yep, anything that explicit must go. If it's a year down the line and it works, then I might start tagging, but as it is...

I want to trust lj, but trust takes time and they haven't earnt that back yet.

[harukami]

Like I said, I'm leaving my own opinion out of it. But I can point out what LJ has said will happen, and the fact that they're doing this smacks of a compromise. Also that most sites have some sort of "contact the server to let us know if this is offensive" method. As things were, it's a step actually a step away from the "likelihood to delete" that their previous report system had.

I'm not here to speak up for LJ. Again, I'm trying to keep my personal opinions out of this. I am here to pass on information that seemed to be unknown, from what I read in the comments.