InsaneJournal

NOOOOO, LJ. NO MOAR WANK. I HAVE TO WORK EARLY TOMORROW!


Long frothy wank short: Lj's new "flag this post" option may help protect the ever-present children, but not many and not for long. You can now tag your friends' (and enemies'!) journals or community entries for offensive content, hate speech, illegal activity, sexual content, or (OMG!) kiddie porn. And if something gets tagged enough or for the right thing, it gets filtered over to the Lj Abuse team, which either ignores it like they did the pro-anorexia comm during Strikethrough theoretically starts stomping (for the illegal stuff), instates a handy warning-and-tag-eclipsing lj-cut and age verification page (circumvented by logging out and posting a fake birthday), or filters you into various levels of post safety/invisibility, as per Lj's (easily adjusted) settings & viewing options.


Overall, it's gonna lead to a lot of hatetagging, grudgereporting, and a massive massive flood of woe and drama for the Abuse team--and we've already seen how well they handle . . . Well, anything. And as for protecting the kiddies . . . Yeah, there's too many holes in this net.



Comparisons to Communism are being made: Nice idea, shitty execution, collapse is inevitable. (Extra lulz at how 6A just announced that they've turned Lj over to SUP, a company from(?) Russia.) People are also still cranky about the lack of clarification of explicit content/adult concepts; something we've been waiting for since Strikethrough.


And I should be sleeping. D: D: D:



PS: As far as Lj's concerned, the only victims of hate speech are people of a particular ethnicity, religion, or race. Chicks and gays and you gender-confused people, you're shit out of luck.