opt-in content filters

[firecat]

The more I think about it, the more I don't particularly care for opt-in content filters. So I removed my opt-in filter for poetry, which means anyone on my friends list can read my poetry postings (I haven't made any in a long time, though).

I don't really object to other people's having content filters, and I see why they might be necessary for work-unsafe postings. But when people on my friends list ask about opt-in content filters, I always respond to them by saying "please put me on all filters you're comfortable having me on."

And I sometimes feel an uncomfortable obligation to search out the opt-in content filter postings of all the folks on my friends list or else risk missing something I would enjoy reading (and possibly give someone the wrong idea because I happen to miss a day or two of their journal and miss their content-filter poll). However, I'm aware that this is my problem, not anyone else's.

Comments

[redbird]

I have one opt-out filter, for me talking about health stuff: I put people in if I want them to see it, but offer them the chance to be removed if they'd rather not. Other than that, I use cut tags, which I mostly use to spare everyone's friends page lists of "exercise, so much weight, so many reps."