Well that was annoying
Friday, November 30th, 2007 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsaikoI think everyone and their brother by now has heard about LJ/6A and their adult content filter. Fine. Whatever. I'm not going to adult filter any of the entires. I feel it's not my job to watch other people's kids, especially when anyone regardless of age can walk into a bookstore or library and purchase/checkout erotica or hardcore romance. The web is no different from any other publishing medium. I give warnings on it and that's it (which is better than some books I own have done).
However, I know that other people feel differently and I respect that. For those of you who want to restrict your stuff, go for it. I might get a tad annoyed because I have to verify my age, but I don't begrudge anyone for feeling differently in this than I do. It can be a very personal thing for some people.
So I go to reset my viewing options so I can view "adult content" and "explicit adult content" without having to see and click on the damn "This entry may contain adult content" link every time (FYI: sometimes it boots you to a 404 error page and you have to go back and click on the comments to see the entry). Those options: grayed out. WTF?
Finally, after some digging I discover that the reason I can't change the settings is because I haven't put in a year in the birthday field of my profile. When I first got an LJ you had two options: display birth date or don't. I didn't want my age displayed, so I left off the year. Now I can only display the month and day, but I still have to put in a year if I want be able to view adult or explicit content.
I don't want LJ to know my age. I clicked the little button when I signed up saying I was over 13. I did my part. I don't want to have to do anything more. Why should I?
So I hope all of you will join next April 26th as I celebrate my 107th birthday. At my age, I should be able to read whatever I damn well please. XD
However, I know that other people feel differently and I respect that. For those of you who want to restrict your stuff, go for it. I might get a tad annoyed because I have to verify my age, but I don't begrudge anyone for feeling differently in this than I do. It can be a very personal thing for some people.
So I go to reset my viewing options so I can view "adult content" and "explicit adult content" without having to see and click on the damn "This entry may contain adult content" link every time (FYI: sometimes it boots you to a 404 error page and you have to go back and click on the comments to see the entry). Those options: grayed out. WTF?
Finally, after some digging I discover that the reason I can't change the settings is because I haven't put in a year in the birthday field of my profile. When I first got an LJ you had two options: display birth date or don't. I didn't want my age displayed, so I left off the year. Now I can only display the month and day, but I still have to put in a year if I want be able to view adult or explicit content.
I don't want LJ to know my age. I clicked the little button when I signed up saying I was over 13. I did my part. I don't want to have to do anything more. Why should I?
So I hope all of you will join next April 26th as I celebrate my 107th birthday. At my age, I should be able to read whatever I damn well please. XD
