Gold stars for all, I'm feeling generous!

[upsticks]

I can now mark my journal entries as containing No Adult Content, Adult Concepts or Explicit Adult Content. I don't think any of my posts are explicit, but I'll go through them all the same.

It's a nice change from the whole Big Brother "What We Say Should Go And We Say No to Pr0n", and in an attempt to find out more, I found this:

2007: Something We Didn't Get Right
In our attempt to implement a zero tolerance policy towards content that supports child abuse, pedophilia, or sexual violence, we suspended about 500 journals in May of 2007 that should not have been taken down. We wish it hadn't happened at all, and we cannot say we're sorry enough. However, we did immediately realize our mistake, and all of the journals that did not break our TOS were restored as quickly as possible. We really screwed up, and when that happens, we've learned the best thing to do is just admit it and try to fix the problem to the best of our abilities.
http://news.livejournal.com/105371.html

What a breath of fresh air for someone to admit they were wrong, and better yet, to apologise :)  *gold star for TPTB @ LJ Towers*

Comments

[sovietkiki.livejournal.com]

However, we did immediately realize our mistake

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Seriously.

No you didn't.

It took about two weeks of users sending emails, maxing out comments on the news feed and general insubordination before someone turned up and started apologising. But journals weren't reinstated until much, much later.

Plus the fact they waited for HP season - IE, the season least users are least likely to be online - to implement this meant they knew it was going to be unpopular anyway.

Bag o' lies, LJ, learn you some more. These ones suck.

[glitterfairy25.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna be really naiive and stupid now, and say, "Really?? I know it wasn't immediate like they said it was, but they did EVENTUALLY reinstate a lot of the purged journals. And they've admitted it too, so it can be no bad thing, right?

*goes back to being all innocent in the corner again*

[sovietkiki.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they did all that stuff eventually, then lied on an official statement and said they did it straight away.

...Which just goes to show how consistent they are, really. :/

(Doesn't matter now. Russians own LJ. >_>)

[glitterfairy25.livejournal.com]

In Soviet Russia, LJ owns YOU!
sorry, had to be done.


ah, maybe I should remove the gold star?