You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for anyone.

[foxgrrl]

So, I have a few moments of spare time to read my friends list. And like almost every single post is a LJ-cut saying: "You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors." (Which, if you actually read the post; It is appropriate for minors. THE LJ-CUT IS A LIE!) But anyway, this makes having a 'friends page' — a single page where you can read everyone's stuff at once — completely useless. I can't just skip down the page, but have to click and open a hundred tabs, and there's no way I can feasibly do this on my cell phone. If I only have 15 minutes a day to read LJ, most of that time is now sunk into loading individual pages. I can't just click on one link, and then read the results, and then get back to my life.

I generally don't even have time to reply to comments in my own journal, let alone read other people's journals, and it's now ten times harder.

Skimming over my friends page, these are some of the journals with the filthy-lying-lj-cuts on every post — even the private locked ones:
gentle_gamer
feyandstrange
drewkitty
svashtar
elfwreck
mmsword
sethanikeem
gaelfling
unseelie
maikujaku
wyndhover
otter3
ishottheserif
elfs
gaelfling
kinkyturtle
emiofbrie
aaron_raccoon
darkmane

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UPDATE: I think that Livejournal has now reached the pinnacle of emo, in that it's now automatically cutting itself.

Comments

[foxgrrl]

I don't see the usage distinction between these and a standard LJ-cut. Do you not read those either?

If I'm on my phone I usually skip them for later, unless it's something I really need to read. On my laptop, I was faced with the situations where I had a few minutes to read my friends page, and there were now 50 identical looking lj-cuts. The only context I had was the subject line, and there was no quick and easy way to find out what the post was about without clicking on every single post.

My Livejournal reading experience became this:

12/2/07 12:18 am - Are you manic?
( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

12/1/07 11:46 am - Emotions
( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

12/1/07 07:53 pm - JobWank
( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

12/1/07 06:53 pm - Wonkaliciousness
( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

12/1/07 01:36 pm - And now for something completely different. . .
( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

11/30/07 05:48 pm - Aside:
( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

11/30/07 05:39 pm - Brash and Impulsive Yay
( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

11/30/07 04:59 pm - Cribs
( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

11/29/07 09:04 pm - Meminator!!!
( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

11/27/07 08:25 pm - This week: We are retrograde in the House of Putting Up With Their Shit.
( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Try setting an arbitrary age. Make yourself a couple hundred years old. That should fix it and piss them off too. :)

Or be subtle. Give your real age in octal. Then, should they ever hassle you about it, you've been honest and given the correct number and screwed up their demographic data at the same time. :)