Wtf?? I am about fed up with all this crap....

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LOL
I guess no more spicy food for us then ;)

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Oh man, this is getting downright scary.

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How bizzare. I wonder if anyone is planning on making an official statement about it. Although they will probably just deny it all.

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What the fuck??
Oh! :o am I allowed to say that?

Grr!

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I don't know how much of a choice they really have. Censorship is filtering
through society companies are choosing to censor themselves ahead of the
terms that they fear will be dictated to them by government.

Call us insane but i think it is getting that bad.

--- Miri of Mtribe

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That's not new. That's been around since, IIRC, shortly post-Strikethrough.

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I just read that. Odd how there was never an announcement. If this is SA's mess, maybe, hopefully, SUP will clean it up.

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I know there's not an announcement on a lot of quiet back-end stuff. There was an anti-serial-adder rate limiting on friend addition that peeved one of my friends who runs an LJ-based RPG. I can't recall that the rate limiting was ever officially announced, and when I asked an engineer about what the exact limit was, he politely declined to tell me. (And I am OK with that, actually.)

Her RPG is locked down since scary Nazi fanboys were finding it through searching for the interests of the villains (and not reading the part where the journals were of fictional characters for the RPG) and friending them and being all icky, so she locked all the character journals down to friends-only. There are a lot of character journals. Now, every time a new character is created, it has to add all the journals in the game so everyone can interact. So of course she ran afoul of the rate limiting. I imagine she will have got fewer crazed neonazi stalkers to the RPG after they added the interest search restrictions, although she changed all the character interests around the time of Strikethrough to make them a little more obviously fictional.

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Even if this wasn't deemed important enough for a news or lj_biz post, it should have at least been mentioned in lj_releases. Not mentioning it there seems almost a deliberate attempt to obscure the change.

One of my interests is unsearchable under this scheme, "raccoons". I understand there may be a legal and ethical need to block people from searching for child pornography – but the scope, poor implementation, and lack of communication of this "feature" are ridiculous.

This is SA's mess and SUP's first real test in their new role.

Edited at 2007-12-08 03:31 pm (UTC)

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It is poorly implemented. It also blocks searches on some reclaimed terms -- someone tried searching for "fag hags" and was denied.

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If *i* were called upon as a programmer to implement censorship i would do it
the way it has been done here. I would rather it be visible and annoying than
transparent ....Of course i would most likely loose my job over it by saying

"This interest has been censored in the fear that the newly formed but secret
comittee for public decency will shut us down for allowing controvertial
interests."

in the return messages.

--- Marina of Mtribe

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This is just sad. Of course most of these filters are more over-zealous than a Pat Robertson groupie. Spicy food? c'mon!

As an interesting aside, I ran afoul of the pornography filters at work when trying to show my friend some of the oddball domestic pigeons that people breed. It allowed me to show him the Jacobins, the Giant Runt and a few others, but it gagged on the Pouter Pigeon. I kept expecting security to show up at my desk and envisioned trying to explain to them that the word "pigeon" was not a polite euphemism for something I shouldn't be looking up at work. And that yes, I really was just spending my lunch hour showing a friend silly pigeon pictures. Figured security would be nudging and winking the whole time I was explaining this...

Scary...

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