A lot of service providers for various things will overlook some really entertaining things until somehow the entertaining things are brought to their attention in a way they can't ignore.
DW inherited part of LJ's adult content flagging system, which was (iirc) put into place after the event known in some circles as "Strikethrough".(Various legal but unappealing-to-advertisers-and-many-bystanders stuff in people's personal journals, brought to the attention of management through a "concerned citizens" group that stank of troll wee? Suspend 'em all! Good going, Six Apart, good going.)
LJ's adult content system allows people to report stuff as being adult, and LJ's Abuse Prevention Team can slap an adult content label on the entry, and this provides a certain amount of satisfaction to people who might otherwise be up in arms about This Sort Of Thing On Our Interwebs.
DW's version gives the journal owner control, and anybody else who has a problem with the entry doesn't have much say in the matter unless the entry also happens to be illegal in the US.
I think that LJ's willingness to embrace the top-down hiding of adult things is very likely a reaction to campaigns of that nature, and a factor in why PayPal continues to do business with them.
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DW inherited part of LJ's adult content flagging system, which was (iirc) put into place after the event known in some circles as "Strikethrough".(Various legal but unappealing-to-advertisers-and-many-bystanders stuff in people's personal journals, brought to the attention of management through a "concerned citizens" group that stank of troll wee? Suspend 'em all! Good going, Six Apart, good going.)
LJ's adult content system allows people to report stuff as being adult, and LJ's Abuse Prevention Team can slap an adult content label on the entry, and this provides a certain amount of satisfaction to people who might otherwise be up in arms about This Sort Of Thing On Our Interwebs.
DW's version gives the journal owner control, and anybody else who has a problem with the entry doesn't have much say in the matter unless the entry also happens to be illegal in the US.
I think that LJ's willingness to embrace the top-down hiding of adult things is very likely a reaction to campaigns of that nature, and a factor in why PayPal continues to do business with them.