100% agree.

Ye, I just see nothing but negatives outta this...

agreed, if they allow boob and not-boob on the site then keep the minors out.

Make sure you block minors from your account fully in site settings. I kind of get the ratings on journals, only because I'm used to that ability on toyhouse, but still seems a little redundant.

Oh, I have.

I just find it odd that they are even allowed here.

Honestly, very true. It is a bit of a ticking time bomb to allow minors in the same place very adult art is posted in abundance and kink is posted with a general tag. I only kind of get the journals because some artist draw both G rated and adult, and some people watch for the G-rated. But I hope it's more of a suggestion to the staff and not having journal police move in and be taken seriously.

I would love to be able to mark my account as adult only, TBH. But I do think journal ratings were needed.

Like it or not (and let me be clear: this is a big issue to me, the mixing of adult content and minors in spaces like this, with 18+ content allowed and fetish content being posted as "general" because "it's just feet" or whatever), the site already had allowances for "general audience" and "mature" content, so being able to mark journals as places where adult discussion is gonna happen, was something FA needed to put in place.

It's not going to fix people being naughty in G-rated journals and pics, but that issue is already normalized here via the rating system for submissions. It's not going to fix language policing, but same again - that's nothing new. This discomfort is real and a problem, but I don't think adding this feature for journals opens a new door.

I honestly think it closes a door instead.

You already had this problem. Every journal you posted, that tone policing and reporting was able to happen because all of them were treated as G-rated. Now that you can mark them as Adult, you basically get what you wanted: no minors in here, no chance to be reported for naughty talk in general audience spaces.

It doesn't fix the core issue of the lines that have blurred between adult and minor content/spaces, but it does band-aid a real issue of not being able to keep minors out of journals regardless of the topic of conversation.

Yeah but minors aside, now adults are also going to be fighting about what should be marked as adult or not, right?

ban minors from the internet
this is not a joke, nor a bit

The system is so stupid. Its why I moved sites. Im sorry this has been such shit for you

Fucking this! Language is a lot more nuanced and, unfortunately, prone to interpretation than "Can you see her boobs?" and I have a feeling this is gonna turn into a clusterfuck eventually.

Yeah I really don't like the pressure this implies.

The simple-minded solution would be to just mark every journal as adult regardless of its content.

The real solution would be for FA to have actual good moderation, impartial staff, and effective policies and practices to keep minors off-site, but haha.

Can't wait for people to file tickets on my journals as a way to harass me.

I also believe that viewing porn never hurt anybody. At least it never hurt me. And I saw some pretty hardcoe shit when I was a kid. And this was long before the internet.

On the other hand, I know at least one person who's always wanted to be able to post adult stories. Now she can.

Oh **** me.... What, do we need to go back to our old journals now and ****** things out?

I don't think so.

SO MUCH THIS COOKIE!
Like **** me, I am LOUD and LOOSE with my wordage and now I need to start giving my journals mature ratings on top of what I need for my image posts?

Da **** ?!

Those ratings have always applied to journals. I don't think you have anything to worry about.

grumbles regardless....

There are definitely reasons to grumble about this.

Wait miners are getting legitimate accounts on fa? I thought the whole thing was you had to be of drinking age to get an account here or was that smoking age I don't remember which

Seems to be a part of the broader enshitification of the internet that a lot of the English speaking world is going through. My state, Missouri, just started IDing everyone for access to websites today. Kids just use VPNs, anyway. It's impossible to stop someone from lying online without turning everything into an extension of the police state.

YEEEEE Ohio is doing the same... I refuse to play the game tho and VPN my way back to NY where laws aren't dippest of shit.

real and true 😔

Hope KOSA fails or we'll have to VPN to Canada...