Passing on some information

[featherynscale]

Passed on from starstraf & friends, some things you might not know about the new content-flagging OMG think of the children initiative (unless you're one of those types who spends a lot of time investigating the nooks and crannies of your LJ-settings):

"Some of you may know that you can now set your journal to either "Adult content" (which blocks viewers under 18 from viewing) or "Adult concepts" (which blocks readers under 14). There are also options to flag someone journal as "adults only", which puts it into the queue to the moderators who will look at it and flag it for you.

As a default setting, they have EVERY SINGLE JOURNAL set to filter out the "adult content" setting! So if your friends try to do the right thing and mark their porny LJ's appropriately, you CAN'T SEE THEM until you change your viewing settings. Which is kind of hard to figure out how to, even if you know you have to in the first place.

Go to your User Options page, and click on Journal - settings. The Viewing Options page will appear, and all the way at the bottom is a section called "AdultContent Options". Your "Safe Search Options" has been set to "use moderate filtering - filters explicit and adult content".

So if someone on your F-list has recently dropped off the map and you have no idea why, try going here and changing your settings. Otherwise, if their LJ is set to "adult" you won't be able to see any of their public entries on your friends page."

Comments

[project-becky.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this, I went and changed my settings.

safe search

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

Looks to me like the defaults filter out adult content from searches, but not from everyday looking. The "viewing adult content" setting seems to default to not hiding things.

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Those using the old system navigation strip - like I do - the way I found my viewing options was clicking on Manage Info (bringing up the Edit Profile Page), and the link for the page containing the viewing options - handily called so - is at the top of that page.

[starrthinks.livejournal.com]

very helpful... thank you!