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[jack]

(lupie, lizzip, aldabra There was an lash out against livejournals that list potentially objectionable interests, I hear including fiction, or victim support. See, reasons for decentralised socialising forums.)

Conveniently, I don't have any interests. I've won! Mwahaha! Wait, no, that makes me sound sad...

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[aldabra]

Because the interest word could be being used as a flag to attract people to plan illegal activity. LJ say (apparently; I've only done so much link trawling) that if they temporarily reinstated such an account to allow it to be content-checked or self-censored they could then be held legally liable for anyone that was using it for illegal purposes. So once they're aware of something that could be attracting interest from pervs they have to shut it down immediately and eprmanently. They can't take the risk of letting things past that "appear" to be legit, in case they get it wrong.

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

M'hm, yes, I can see how that would work with "victim support", but "fiction"? That sounds a trifle over-cautious to me.

I've got "science fiction" listed. I hope that's safe... :-S

[meirion.livejournal.com]

I think the message has become garbled – the actual interests were not fiction or victim support, but somewhat less savoury things. The journals, however, were often fictional, or RPG characters, or e.g. survivors of certain kinds of abuse. Some dodgy communities have been purged, but rather a lot of babies appear to have been thrown out with not very much bathwater. See http://catrinella.livejournal.com/151812.html for comprehensive details.

-m-

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ah, sorry, that was partly my bad phrasing -- the livejournals included fiction and victim support, not the dubious interests :)

Thank you, that looks like a helpful link, I'm glad someone came along before I broke down and looked for it myself :)

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Thanks - now I have a much better idea of what everyone is talking about.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I don't think anyone's pretending it's not stupid...

I've got "science fiction" listed. I hope that's safe... :-S

I don't know. If WFI are looney-right-wing-ultra-"christian" types (I don't know if they are, that's just a guess), they're probably anti-science AND anti-fiction :)

[mair_in_grenderich]

"science isn't fiction! oneone!eleven!111"

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Well, it *could* be.

I'm torn on "eleventy". I've always thought it was cute, but I'm sure at some point in the future I'm going to flip over into "bloodbath"... OTOH, it's cool to think in the future, "eleventy" will be a term of approbation, and only linguists will remember the etymology :)

[mair_in_grenderich]

I never mentioned eleventy. If it's going to make you flip, I'll avoid it in future as well :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Oh no, not you, that just reminded me of it.

[lizzip.livejournal.com]

It's allowed - it's in LotR. :p

(OHNOES FANDOM)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Er, what?

[mair_in_grenderich]

And it's almost like elventy, and elves are certainly in LoTR

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Wow, that Tolkien, and his wacky irregular plural shenanigans :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Oh, right. I remember. I think we might even have had this argument before. "Eleventy" to mean "One hundred and ten" is fine (not to be overused, but has its place). "Eleventy" to mean "Ohmygoshwow" is the potential problem :)

[lizzip.livejournal.com]

It wasn't us who discussed that, actually, but interesting to know - and I'm sorry for my flippancy. (:

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

No, apparently not. At any rate, I couldn't find it in googlemail lj notifications. And, uh, I'm not objecting to flippancy, here. I dread to think anything I said sounded serious :) (Though sounding correct is ok :))

[robhu.livejournal.com]

I'm torn on "eleventy". I've always thought it was cute, but I'm sure at some point in the future I'm going to flip over into "bloodbath".
Bloodbath!11!2!onehundredandeleventyone