Point. I'm kind of suspicious of the whole thing starting up again once the initial furor broke down, which does support the idea that it's one egomaniac masquerading as a movement.

If Fandom scruples had any backbone at all they'd put their names up. AND put a contact address. Right now the only way to add any websites to be blacklisted is if you are friended.

It's the worst kind of vile ness out there.

I take it that means that a 'don't go here if you are underage' is good enough.

No, they've said expressly they mean unpassworded NC-17 fic. So if it's explicit and a kid could get to it without making a formal statement that he's over 17, you're on the list.

This is the sort of behavior that makes me grind my teeth. Fannish porn is labeled and behind cut tags. You can't just stumble onto accidentally, unlike the explicit porn that gets dumped into my email box every day. Why isn't this Arbiter of Fannish Morality going after the porn-spammers instead?

Right now the only way to add any websites to be blacklisted is if you are friended.

And if you look, no one on their friends list has friended them back. They might be commenting anyhow, of course, but my guess? Is that they have nothing or very little to do with the concept, and are just waiting the crazy person out.

There were some people who friended them and then de friended them as fandom scruples got more militant and freak ass---I think when fandom scruples said they'd start blacklisting people who linked to NC-17 stories without password protecting or friendslocking.

Is it worth complaining to the LiveJournal PTB, on the grounds that the blacklisting -- being done by people who are essentially anonymous -- is harmful to other LJ users (i.e., the ones being blacklisted)?

Just a thought.

I wonder how fandom_scruples handles what they consider explicit material written by the under-17 set? 'Cause I was writing hard R (which she or they claim to be cause for blacklisting) when I was 15. The only reason it wasn't online was because there was no internet to speak of then. It wasn't good smut. It was, in fact, cringingly bad Battlestar Galactica smut, and has long since gone the way of all paper. But I'd quite easily be writing cringingly bad HP smut if I was a 15 year old today. Would they blacklist me for allowing myself to see my own lj entries?

I've probably given this more thought than the fandom_scruples instigator(s).

I believe people are complaining to LJ, but I think LJ's position is that the people being harassed (i.e., those on the blacklist) need to make the complaint. Which I'm sure some of them will.

So I'm gonna do the fic commentary thing. Except ... I wanna do what I wanna do, not what people are asking for. Which is selfish of me.

Mother, Jintian broke me.

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