Editing LiveJournal (section)

== Content==
===Privacy===
LiveJournal provides an option intended to reduce the chances of [[search engines]] indexing a journal; however, the only way to make it completely impossible for such indexing to occur is to set the entry security to "friends only" or higher when first posting the entry. If an entry is first posted publicly, and then edited to reflect a higher security level, it may have already been indexed by a search engine in the time between the security edit. The popular "friends only" security option,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.livejournal.com/support/faq/24.html |title=Display of Security Levels |publisher=Community.livejournal.com |access-date=2012-10-11 |archive-date=2012-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030215611/http://www.livejournal.com/support/faq/24.html |url-status=live }}</ref> which has since been adopted by [[Xanga]] and [[Myspace]], hides a post from the general public so that only those on the user's friends list can read it. Some users keep all their posts friends-only (except for a single post explaining that the journal is friends-only). Still, such features as tags and userpics cannot be hidden. LiveJournal also allows users to create custom user groups within their group of friends to further restrict who can read any particular post, and to allow reading of subsets of a user's friends list.

LiveJournal additionally has a "private" security option which allows users to make a post that only the poster can read, thus making their LiveJournal a private diary rather than a blog. It is also possible to choose a default security setting for one's journal, so that all entries are posted at that security level by default even if one forgets to alter the security setting at the time of posting.

Users may restrict who can comment on their posts in addition to who has the ability to read their posts. Comments on a given entry may be allowed from anyone who can read the entry or restricted. Commenting may be restricted by disabling commenting altogether or by screening comments.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.livejournal.com/support/faq/134.html |title=Journal Screening Settings |publisher=Community.livejournal.com |access-date=2012-10-11 |archive-date=2012-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030173532/http://www.livejournal.com/support/faq/134.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Screened comments are visible only to the original posters until the journal owner approves the comment. These restrictions can be applied to just anonymous users, users who aren't listed as a friend, or everyone. The IP address of commenters can be logged as well if the journal owner wishes to enable it.

An option allows users to hide their "friend of" list from public view, but leaves the list visible to the user. In this case, only the friends list is shown. When "friend of" is allowed, journal accounts who have friended the user and who are also friended are listed in neither "friend of" nor 'friend", but rather a third category, "mutual friends". This was eventually made a separate option, like the "friend of" list, and reworded so that the lists would have to be selected to include them in a profile, rather than to select an option to remove them.

LiveJournal lists that users can hide communities from their profile page by not friending them (friended communities are "watched") and by either banning the community from posting in their journal (which has no effect since they cannot anyway, but does remove them from the "member of" list) or by removing the "friend of" list, which removes the "member of" list in addition to the "friend of" list.

LiveJournal allows paid account users to change privacy settings on past entries in bulk. Basic and plus accounts do not have an official web-based method, and normally must manually change such settings one by one; some third party clients, such as Livejournal Visibility Changer,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://articles.jehy.ru/|title=Jehy's notes|website=Jehy's notes|access-date=2020-12-20|archive-date=2020-12-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202025033/https://articles.jehy.ru/|url-status=live}}</ref> provide this functionality for non-paid users.

Communities can also be private, with moderated or closed membership, when community holders give users different level of access to the content, based on the information about the user.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.livejournal.com/support/faq/80.html |title=Community Posting Access |publisher=Community.livejournal.com |access-date=2012-10-11 |archive-date=2012-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030220104/http://www.livejournal.com/support/faq/80.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Adult content===
While LiveJournal permits adult-oriented content, it is a user's responsibility to mark content as inappropriate for minors. There are two types of adult content:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.livejournal.com/support/faq/281.html |title=Adult Content |publisher=Community.livejournal.com |access-date=2012-10-11 |archive-date=2012-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030215437/http://www.livejournal.com/support/faq/281.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Adult concepts: This rating applies to content that is not explicitly graphic, but may contain things that are of a mature nature and could be inappropriate for anyone under the age of 14 years.
* Explicit adult: This rating applies to graphic and explicit content (depicting nudity, sexuality, violence in images and language) that is appropriate only for adults, and is not suitable for viewers under the age of 18 years.

Labeling as adult material does not convey in any way that this content is considered obscene, in the legal definition of the term. Such content should be marked in order to be shown only to users whose birth dates on their user information page indicate that they are over the age of 18. At the same time the user itself can set own preferences in viewing adult content settings in order not to receive such materials. All users are defaulted to ''Moderate Filtering'' in the ''Safe Search Filter'', but can change this option.

It is written in the LiveJournal rules that if the content is reported as being offensive or inappropriate, LiveJournal has the right to flag, restrict access, or delete it at any time without notice.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.livejournal.com/legal/tos.bml#t13 |title=LiveJournal Rules |publisher=Community.livejournal.com |access-date=2012-10-11 |archive-date=2011-08-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816041959/http://www.livejournal.com/legal/tos.bml#t13 |url-status=live }}</ref>