strikethrough 2007 round two?

[seperis]

Okay, checking something.

ponderosa121

Okay, this is new.

ETA:

Quickly reorganizing the links.

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This can't end well.

Quoted from the post:

Has there been more Strikethrough nonsense going on or something, and I've somehow missed the wank? Because it is very odd, she's not strkethrough'ed, just... de-LJ'd (ponderosa121), but she's very definitely suspended.

Dude. Are we malfunctioning?

[edit] Oh, evil twin. She was blissfully unaware, and her response to the deleted? "Huh."

OI.

OKAY. THE LOWDOWN.

Apparently, she's been suspended over a drawing posted on pornish_pixies cited to contain "minors in explicit sexual situations." Probably some Snape/Harry. And since there's no appeal system... well. In a show of evil twin solidarity, I'm most likely jumping ship to GreatestJournal. We're both over there, under the exact same names.

Read the post, including thoughts on creating a new community for fanpeople.

Two:

Also read here, Fandomtossed

Three:

Aja on the latest suspensions.

We have latest suspensions. Should I be ready for Memorial Day weekend?

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1.) Er. So we can no longer see a strikethrough. You know what? That is beyond a bad sign.

2.) I--er, I have nothing.

I am wondering if I need to check my userinfo now every day. Maybe do a print out just in case.

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svmadelyn found it.

Lj Releases

Among others:

* Un-linking user tags for deleted/suspended users
* Hiding deleted/suspended journals from profiles (unless you're looking at your own, or looking at the full profile view)

*slow blinking*

What? Why?

(that's really a rhetorical question at this point, isn't it?)

ETA 2:

ponderosa121 just posted to her GJ here on the situation.

People are asking about the situation on news here (looks like it's starting on page six).

Comments

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

Point, but thing is, the age of consent in the US isn't 16, or at least it isn't always 16 (depending on the state you're in). And LJ's servers are based in the US.

I haven't seen the picture either, but I'm told the author intended for Harry to be 18. However, while some have looked at it and don't think he looks underage, others aren't seeing it that way. A matter of interpretation, I suppose. *shrug*

[snowwhiteliar.livejournal.com]

Having gone and read, very carefully, the TOS - particularly the sections labelled "Journal Content" and "Member Conduct" nowhere does it say that members must abide by any particular US laws - but "local and international laws" instead.

Unfortunately there we run into trouble - HP is a British fandom, therefore British laws should apply to fanfic/fanart etc. Ponderosa, however, is based in the US. The conflict of the two is what bothers me.

(And if she intended for Harry to be 18, then they really don't have any grounds for banning her for that picture. That's not breaking any rules.)

It just makes me wish that LJ would stop and do as its TOS suggests:

Should any Content that you have authored be reported to LiveJournal as being offensive or inappropriate, LiveJournal might call upon you to retract, modify, or protect (by means of private and friends only settings) the Content in question within a reasonable amount of time, as determined by the LiveJournal staff. Should you fail to meet such a request from LiveJournal staff, LiveJournal may terminate your account.

Where was the polite request to remove a single post, rather than banning a user?

Maybe I'm getting too annoyed by this, but I missed the whole "strikethrough" explosion, so I'm trying to keep up with new events and make sure I know what's going on.