breast-feeding

[watervole]

I'm starting to feel the need to borrow a baby to do a new icon of my own...

Some of the banned icons http://www.promom.org/gallery/banned_icons are really lovely pictures. The whole thing is just crazy.

I've not had a reply to my comments to LJ on the subject...

Comments

[lexin.livejournal.com]

The thing is, they're not 'banned' per se. The users are merely being told not to use them as "default" icons. I'm not sure I agree with 6A's reasoning around why - I think you could drive a bus through it, actually - but saying the're banned isn't strictly accurate.

[dragoness13.livejournal.com]

This is ridiculous.

[alex-holden.livejournal.com]

Storm in a milk bottle. Now if it was beards they were banning from default icons I'd be worried...

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

Neither have I - I've always been quite sceptical about LiveJournal's support and abuse teams, I think they should hire professionals. They're a business, so I expect the same level of customer support as from other businesses.

By the way, I added you, I hope you don't mind!

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I've always been quite sceptical about LiveJournal's support and abuse teams, I think they should hire professionals. They're a business, so I expect the same level of customer support as from other businesses.

Swings and roundabouts. A professional team might have reacted the same way. What worries me most is that I see a slight chance that they might introduce stricter rules all round - there's a 'net nanny' outlook out there that LJ has largely managed to avoid. Even the ruling here has only covered default icons - imagine if they extended the rules to cover all icons. That would affect many icons that are nothing to do with breast feeding.

By the way, I added you, I hope you don't mind!

Wecome. Come in and pull up a pew.

As a reader of this journal, you get automatic invitations to things like the August super-soaker fight and the next incarnation of Silvercon (small board games convention).

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

On this issue, yes, but there have been instances in which the current team just deletes things they don't like - hardly conductive to a freedom of complaint.

As ZZ9 Secretary, I'm already invited to the former event (I will be in California at the time, unfortunately), but if the latter event is something I can attend I'll probably be there - it sounds good!