Likely, their intent is to stop people from going, "Oh, I can't post my porn? Fine, I'll put it on my personal web site and link to it."
Problem with that approach is that it isn't going to WORK. Because fen will promptly find ways to uphold the letter of the restriction while violating the spirit of it. They can do things like,
"Hey! I have a new Snarry picture! It's on my website, www.mysite.com, under the 'new content' tab." With no actual direct link to it, just a path to find it.
So Livejournal has to say you can't link to a page that links to a page with porn on it, or the fan posting smut wins that round ...
And I'm sure you can think of other ways to tell people how to find the porn without directly linking to it. Know what I mean?
At some point it could devolve into, "I drew a Snarry. You know where to find it ... e-mail me if you don't," being bannable. Or, "E-mail me if you want me to e-mail you my latest Snarry."
So either they have to get absolutely ridiculous about restricting any mention of smut whatsoever to prevent fans from passing it around or they have to turn a blind eye to fans who are making end runs around the rules.
Meanwhile, some poor newbie who doesn't know about the rules gets banned because she linked to a pic showing Harry Potter's wang and the purity police have a cow.
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Problem with that approach is that it isn't going to WORK. Because fen will promptly find ways to uphold the letter of the restriction while violating the spirit of it. They can do things like,
"Hey! I have a new Snarry picture! It's on my website, www.mysite.com, under the 'new content' tab." With no actual direct link to it, just a path to find it.
So Livejournal has to say you can't link to a page that links to a page with porn on it, or the fan posting smut wins that round ...
And I'm sure you can think of other ways to tell people how to find the porn without directly linking to it. Know what I mean?
At some point it could devolve into, "I drew a Snarry. You know where to find it ... e-mail me if you don't," being bannable. Or, "E-mail me if you want me to e-mail you my latest Snarry."
So either they have to get absolutely ridiculous about restricting any mention of smut whatsoever to prevent fans from passing it around or they have to turn a blind eye to fans who are making end runs around the rules.
Meanwhile, some poor newbie who doesn't know about the rules gets banned because she linked to a pic showing Harry Potter's wang and the purity police have a cow.
Leva Cygnet
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