Wonder if this icon counts as "adult content"?

[semperfiona]

After LJ's big announcement of their new content-flagging scheme, I changed my journal settings to "Adult Concepts". I don't do explicit images, and any explicit or graphic text is way back in the archives, but I reserve my right to post such in the future, and to use such expletives as strike my fancy.

Yesterday, I wanted to read my syndicated feeds, but I didn't bother to log in. I've put them in a public filter for just that reason. Imagine my surprise when LJ popped up a warning box to make me verify that I'm over 14 years old. Explain to me why my friends page (or a filter thereof) should be flagged the same as my journal itself? Aren't these flags supposed to be journal-specific? I would have expected to see any or all of the feeds that weren't themselves flagged as adult. Same should apply to any public friends view.

I'm now expecting to have my journal disappear behind the company firewall as "adult content" due to the damned flagging, and am wondering whether to change the setting to avoid it. I do also have it set to "no searching", which may or may not also make a difference.

Grrr.

Comments

[ona-tangent.livejournal.com]

If other journals are flagged as adult content then they will be hidden when displayed on your friends page unless you are logged in. It has nothing to do with the settings on your journal.

[semperfiona]

Yeah, that's what the documentation says. But the warning popped up before I ever got to any individual journal/feed.

[jilly-bear.livejournal.com]

I was surprised to see that other "Adult content" flagged journals still are readable at work. I don't think the filter is smart enough to read the WARNING on the page that you have to click that you are over 18 to read.

Mah - I refuse to change anything - reader beware!

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

I reserve my right to post such in the future

You can always just set an individual post to "adult content", leaving the rest of your journal unflagged.

They didn't really explain these settings as well as they should have. It looks like the settings for an entire journal are really intended for communities (and individual journals that function like communities). They make it a LOT easier for community maintainers who want to restrict the age of those who can access posts, because now the maintainers don't have to verify the age of each member.