Interests

[wolfwings]

altermeta, anime, bdsm, bicycles, bondage, breasts, cleavage, computers, dragons, fetishes, furries, furry, furry pr0n, ironclaw, jadeclaw, kuvrahk, kuvrahks, kuvvy, maelstrom lrp, moulin rouge, piercings, programming, quake, role playing games, rpgs, rping, shadowrun, slash, snow, swimming, tattoos, video games, yaoi, yiff, yiffing, yiffy art, yuri, zoids

Comments

[otana.livejournal.com]

I understand the point you are making, however none of your interests are remotely linked to the threat at hand. This kind of kneejerk removal only confuses people to the real action that's going on. It is important that people know WHY journals are being deleted and WHICH interests are being targetted, so that they can react and complain accordingly. By simply removing all interests, it confuses the situation and may panic people into thinking that all interets are under fire, and then the true threat becomes blurred. We need to attack WoI for their misguided methods and appeal to Six Apart to reinstate those innocent journals, but I don't believe that randomnly removing interest lists helps the situation at all.

It is late and I am having a hard time explaining what I mean coherently. I am just very concerned that being militant and attacking the wrong enemy here (and assuming that all interests are now under threat) will create even more hysteria than is currently going around and will leave people confused as to what is really going on. Hence why I simply linked to the banner with a convenient list of links that already explain the situation far more coherently than I ever could.

The simple fact...

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

...is that a feature of LJ, the Interest-stuff, is currently being used as a basis to suspend journals. These suspensions are being explained as unrevokable, based on a list of keywords that LJ/SA will not explicitly confirm. This means, to me, that all keywords are possibly under fire. We cannot confirm with 100% safety that any keyword is safe, as even something as mundane as 'tossed salad' has very vile meanings among some groups.

Because there is no way to confirm if any interest-keyword is 100% safe for eternity, there is no safety in using any interest-keywords in the built-in system. Therefor, I blanked it.

And taking the LJAbuse Boilerplate reply literally...

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

...even listing gay marriage could theoretically apply, if not in this batch, in a future batch.

I feel the thinking involved by LJ/SixApart in this situation is along the same line of that which causes a (perhaps well-meaning) person to get fired for causing $50k in damages, and thus, they have earned all the lumps they're getting for bowing down to the threats from W4I targetting LJ/SA's advertisers primarilly.