Adult Concepts?

[vakkotaur]

I've adjusted my settings so that I can see things. I have not set this journal for any artificial limitation. As others have pointed out, SixApart (LiveJournal's owner, alas) is using this as a marketing move - to its advertisers. It lets them say, "We're taking steps." It doesn't actually keep any eyes from seeing anything.

How so? It depends on an accurate date of birth being given to LiveJournal. Suppose little Petunia Pornseeker goes looking for something she shouldn't, what does she do? Either she creates a journal with a fake date of birth or logs out and reads the restricted entry after giving a verification page a false birth date. Effective system? Not at doing what it is claimed to be for. But it can keep the ad money flowing to SixApart.

As for "Adult Concepts" there are plenty of them, and precious few of them are harmful to anyone. If kids aren't exposed to reality, how will they learn? The problem is not adult concepts. The problem is juvenile administrators and advertisers.

Comments

[catwoman69y2k.livejournal.com]

I agree. I kind of balked at this, after finding it out from Rainbow Roo's journal (yeah, I wish that LJ would tell us when thy roll out a new feature. You would think they would want to tell everyone about their newest site toy). I understand how some people check LJ at work and may want to find a way to view friends' journals but without risking that they are caught looking at non work safe content. Still, that is what LJ cut tags are for.

At any case, I wasnt sure how to mark my own journal after going into the view settings. I mean, most of what I ahve to say is Adult Concepts at best but when it comes to the few times I put up my artistic nude modeling shots...Im a bit unsure if that is considered "Explicit" simply because artistic nude can be thrown in with "porn" depending on who you ask.

Kat

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Fortunately individual entries can be owner-marked as well, so you could set your journal to "Adult Concept" and only those particular entries to "Explicit" if you wanted. But that does seem odd. Artistic nude is not at all the same as porn, which is what "explicit" would seem to indicate. Of course, "Explicit" is the safe setting: if anyone sees it and objects, at least you and LJ/6A can say the viewer was warned.

[catwoman69y2k.livejournal.com]

Well explicit under their terms includes nudity so I guess yeah, artistic nudity is on the same level as porn.

Kat

[electronin.livejournal.com]

They'd rather their children take the dreaded information by force and guile than just give it to them. Usually, younger children aren't interested in such and find it stupid(e.g. Calvin & Hobbes), so the adult world makes it out to be a secret they're selfishly keeping to themselves in order to pique young curiosities.

People are extremely coy that way.