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[sapote]

Okay, re: the adult content flagging thing - yeah, censorship, problematic, likely to be abused, &c, &c - but seriously, isn't lying on an adult content clickthrough a major part of modern adolescence? Heck, Scarleteen got its start as an alternative to the practice of linking the "I am NOT eighteen or older" button to disney.com.

If you're not logged in, it looks like lj will offer you a classic "I testify that I am of age to read this material" clickthrough. You may have to submit your date of birth. Personally, those make me feel nostalgic for the days when I would swear up and down that I was born in 1971. And that brings up another point: when I first got into fandom, most adult content hosted on personal websites and fan archives had adult content clickthroughs. When we moved to lj, I kind of missed them.

That is all.

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[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a problem. I've been sending politely-worded suggestions to lj-support about this stuff (wouldn't it be better if clicking the "adult content" tag took you to the post with its cut-tags closed?). Hopefully they will listen?

[lavilleperdue.livejournal.com]

Politely-worded suggestions are good! I guess it's because you only have to click to confirm that you are older than 14, and the adult content stuff is rated higher? But since they obviously can keep track of whether you've clicked through or not (because you don't have to confirm again), it shouldn't be that much of a problem to allow browsing for adults. *goes to prod lj-support* :D