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A 'Flag content' icon/link will be added to the icons/links found in every entry (Leave a Comment, Add to Memories, Tell a Friend, Track Comments, etc.). (Sources: 1, 2 and 3)
ETA (on Oct. 20 @ 11:45pm GMT): Users won't be able to "flag anything if their account isn't at least one month old". Logged-out users won't be able to flag content. Editor's Note: thanks to [info]worldserpent for the heads-up. (Source)
ETA (on Oct. 20 @ 7:55pm GMT): developer [info]janinedog tells us that users won't be able to flag their own entries via the Flag icon. However, they will be able to flag their entries when posting or editing them and, of course, flag their journals via Manage Settings or Manage Communities (we already knew that). The Flag icon will therefore be used by other users to report content to the Abuse team who will then review the content and decide to flag it as containing adult content or not. Janine also tells us that these changes will go live next Thursday. Thanks again, Janine. (Source)
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I'm rather annoyed about this. It just seems like it could be open for so much abuse, even if it's only people with accounts of a certain age who can do it (presumably to stop people opening sock-puppets just for this, although if you're vindictive enough surely you can age them a month and then go on your spree). I'm not against the basic idea of being able to restrict access to the content of one's own journal in this fashion, which would enable you theoretically to have stuff "kind of public" where adults could find it but minors could not without having to friend them first; I'm just hearing a subtext of "you'd better do this OR ELSE" and a possibility for "lowest common denominator" that is really bothering me. (Also, like this stops anyone from simply lying about their age, but then there's never anything you can do about that anyway.)
the_lj_herald:A 'Flag content' icon/link will be added to the icons/links found in every entry (Leave a Comment, Add to Memories, Tell a Friend, Track Comments, etc.). (Sources: 1, 2 and 3)
ETA (on Oct. 20 @ 11:45pm GMT): Users won't be able to "flag anything if their account isn't at least one month old". Logged-out users won't be able to flag content. Editor's Note: thanks to [info]worldserpent for the heads-up. (Source)
ETA (on Oct. 20 @ 7:55pm GMT): developer [info]janinedog tells us that users won't be able to flag their own entries via the Flag icon. However, they will be able to flag their entries when posting or editing them and, of course, flag their journals via Manage Settings or Manage Communities (we already knew that). The Flag icon will therefore be used by other users to report content to the Abuse team who will then review the content and decide to flag it as containing adult content or not. Janine also tells us that these changes will go live next Thursday. Thanks again, Janine. (Source)
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I'm rather annoyed about this. It just seems like it could be open for so much abuse, even if it's only people with accounts of a certain age who can do it (presumably to stop people opening sock-puppets just for this, although if you're vindictive enough surely you can age them a month and then go on your spree). I'm not against the basic idea of being able to restrict access to the content of one's own journal in this fashion, which would enable you theoretically to have stuff "kind of public" where adults could find it but minors could not without having to friend them first; I'm just hearing a subtext of "you'd better do this OR ELSE" and a possibility for "lowest common denominator" that is really bothering me. (Also, like this stops anyone from simply lying about their age, but then there's never anything you can do about that anyway.)