That's one of the biggest issues with this. There's just very little evidence to support the idea that LJabuse will deal with flags resonably, and lots of evidence to support the idea that they'll be looking to hide content for very, very slight reason.
The major reason this bugs me is because it makes it much less likely for anyone not on LJ to read anything on LJ. If, say, my journal gets flagged as an adult content journal - which it well might - that would mean that anyone not on LJ who came upon it would see nothing but a page of lj-cuts, and not informative lj-cuts, but ones that say only "This may be explicit material." If you came upon a web page and the only thing it showed you was a list of links with absolutely no information about what was behind them - would you bother clicking around? And even if you did, the next thing you would find would be an "I certify I'm over 18" button. By that point people have given up and gone away.
So if you don't want someone's writings read, get them flagged. LJ will say it's not censorship because they're not deleting anything, but probably you've cut the readership of it in, say, half. I suspect this will start getting abused for political reasons, in, oh, negative one hour.
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The major reason this bugs me is because it makes it much less likely for anyone not on LJ to read anything on LJ. If, say, my journal gets flagged as an adult content journal - which it well might - that would mean that anyone not on LJ who came upon it would see nothing but a page of lj-cuts, and not informative lj-cuts, but ones that say only "This may be explicit material." If you came upon a web page and the only thing it showed you was a list of links with absolutely no information about what was behind them - would you bother clicking around? And even if you did, the next thing you would find would be an "I certify I'm over 18" button. By that point people have given up and gone away.
So if you don't want someone's writings read, get them flagged. LJ will say it's not censorship because they're not deleting anything, but probably you've cut the readership of it in, say, half. I suspect this will start getting abused for political reasons, in, oh, negative one hour.