Experimenting with flagging

[dreamshark]

If you want to see what happens when you flag somebody's journal as having "adult content" you can pick on poor pantha_kjeet. She doesn't really understand anyway, and if she gets banned from LJ she won't care (not being real and all).

Incidentally, since pantha_kjeet honestly gave her birthdate as April, 2006, she cannot the experimental post that dreamshark self-identified as "adult only." She clicks on the cut tag, but gets a message saying that she has to be 18 to proceed. So now I know that for users under 18 the LJ cut is actually a barrier, not just an advisory message.

If you do decide to flag Pantha's post, leave a comment. I'd be interested to see how many people have to flag it for LJ to do something. They'll probably be irritated when they discover it was just a test anyway, but that's what they get when they change their policies in a way that is deliberately opaque. Some of us are scientists.

Comments

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Hmm... under what category should she (it?) be flagged? Adult content didn't seem right, as there was none and I didn't want to look too foolish (LJ keeps tabs on crying wolf, they claim). I initially tried "Illegal Activity", figuring that an imaginary creature posting in the Real World (tm) broke several laws of nature. But then LJ wanted the user name and specific url, which was in the past.

Wasting LJ's time when they implement stupid policies is a generically good idea, but this onw iw Too Much Work.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

I'm not trying to harrass LJ, I just wanted to experiment. I can change the post to contain "adult material" to make the experiment more complete. Let's see, what would a panther-woman in a world without genitals be writing about that could qualify as sexually explicit?

[beccal.livejournal.com]

Hmm, panther-woman. She must have something to say about licking.

[vgqn.livejournal.com]

since pantha_kjeet honestly gave her birthdate as April, 2006

This seems to be the key piece of idiocy. How does LJ know people are giving true birthdates? All anyone has to do to get around the flagging is create an account with an old enough birthdate. I usually give out imaginary birthdates to anyone I don't think really needs to know it anyhow.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Why should they care? I don't think they are trying to actually control anybody. Presumably, they are trying to provide tools for people who are cooperating with the effort by providing accurate information. If users don't cooperate, they don't get protected.