Sigh

[tygati]

*sigh* For those of you who haven't heard: Livejournal now provides the ability to filter adult content.

What this means for us writers, I haven't made up my mind about yet. -__- Blah.

Here's the affected settings page.

I can't lock my journal because I have so many lurkers and people without journals reading... I also personally object to giving out my full birthdate for various privacy reasons, so wtf do they expect to do about those of us who won't provide our year of birth, hmm? :P Oh, I see, they assume you're a kid. >.< Fine then. *sets frigging birthdate to 1901* :P Not like y'all don't know how old I am anyway; I've mentioned it several times. *shrug*

The stupid teenyboppers need to stay on Myspace. -_-

Wtf-ever. For now, I think I'm ignoring it.

Comments

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

HEY. RESENTING TEENY BOPPER COMMENT. Not that I'm...underage or anything. It's just that my wife is. Well off to lie....down. Yes, I'm off to lie down.

[hyperjirou.livejournal.com]

Good thing you aren't underage, or you wouldn't be able to read your own journal.

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

I know someone who that happened to (sort of). They wrote a fairly explicit story when they were 15 and allowed it to be put up in a very popular archive. A year later, said archive went 18+ and you had to send proof of age. She literally was banned from reading her own story.

It was hysterical and sad at the same time.

[hyperjirou.livejournal.com]

Huh. The only archive I know of that required actual proof was Aestheticism back in the day. They started being really popular after I first got into yaoi/slash, and a lot of sites used their password system to hide their adult stuff. I remember getting very frustrated at the time. I sent out my ID nearly immediately after I turned 18. And, of course, right after that the practice died out. I wouldn't do that today, too paranoid.

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

You guessed the archive. Aestheticism use to be open before late 1998 and was the biggest repository of yaoi fanfiction. Then in the US a law passed COPA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Online_Protection_Act) which said among other things that you had to restrict access to all things that might be considered "harmful to minors." That's when Aestheticism changed.

Of course, there was an immediate injunction based on free speech rights. It's still be debated strangely enough. However, with the injunction in place, sites don't have to follow the rules. That's why many went onto some sort of password system and others didn't.

[hyperjirou.livejournal.com]

You know, that explains quite a bit. 1998 was the year I got into yaoi, and it explains why password protected sites kept increasing.

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHAHA. YES. OF COURSE. NOT UNDERAGE, I MEAN. WOW, IS IT HOT IN HERE OR WHAT?

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Heh. Not really sure how old you are, but I was kinda worrying about how this idiot thing might affect Graphite... *snugs*

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

Nikk's the youngest out of all of use, I think. Or was it Loki? Also, a lady never reveals her true age. *flutters eyelashes*

[tygati.livejournal.com]

*snerk* Yeah, I'm sure. <3