May 24, 2006

  • XANGA FLAGS AND RATINGS

    We’d like to make two big announcements about Xanga and Safety:

    • We’re refocusing our Flagging program
    • We’re previewing a new Ratings system

    REFOCUSING FLAGGING

    Our Safety Flags have been a tremendous success story, and we are
    doubling down on them in a big way. Child Porn or leaving Death
    Threats are not just against our terms of use; they are against the
    law. Are you aware that we are required by law to report child
    porn to the CyberTipline?

    Beyond the safety flags though, some of our other flags were designed
    to protect our younger users against age-inappropriate content.
    But many of you pointed out that several of the flags felt like
    censorship. So in response, we’re shifting our focus there towards
    a Ratings System.

    PREVIEWING RATINGS

    We want to help protect users from content they don’t want to see, so
    we’re experimenting with a Ratings System. Here’s how it’d work: you’d be able to
    self-rate your own content, and cross-rate each others’. Then
    everyone would have a Xanga SafeBrowse setting, that lets you
    determine the level of content you’re comfortable with. Have you
    used Google Image Search? Access to the highest rated content is
    filtered out (and we’d also be adding age restrictions and verification as
    well).

    We’ve modeled our ratings on the Movie and Video Games systems.
    I’m listing our five ratings below, along with the corresponding MPAA
    ratings:


    MPAA XANGA
    general-audiences a
    parental-guid b
    parental-strongly c
    restricted d
    nc-17 ex

    We’d love your thoughts and feedback. What do you think?

Comments (1598)

  • OMGOSH so cool! :D

  • interesting… will the little rating pop up before the screen is loaded?

  • First!! ;D

  • Great idea :)
    you guys are so busy!!!!
    Keep up the fantastic work!!!!

  • oh , nevermind, i didn’t read it properly :P

  • While I was too big on some of the flags the ratings system sounds like a fun idea. Now I don’t have to write “For mature reader’s only” as a title.

  • great!

  • Yay, ratings! Certainly a good idea!

  • Smart move.

  • pretty cool.

  • uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    I honestly don’t really see the need for this. More regulation is usually a bad thing, in my book.

  • Ah it’s wonderful that you are doing this, it makes other people more conscious about their blog content.

    -Sarah-

  • I hope you dont mind I have already “borrowed” the one I will be using… :) Until it goes live anyway….
     

  • btw, i’m talking about the ratings system, not the flagging system.

    but maybe this means we can keep the teeny boppers away from our sites? ;P

  • Good job with that…verification of age could get tricky though, not everyone has or wishes to use a credit card online, and simply asking what the age is obviously is not a very good verification method. But the ratings system is good!

  • how do u get a photoblog?

  • yes.. thats a real good idea! When will it start?

    Christina

  • I think the ratings system is a good idea, but the number of people that would actually go along with it would be a different story. A good portion of the people I know couldn’t really give very much of a care about the content they see, and they wouldn’t really do much about it. In the end, that’s really something detrimental to the system, but I see the common purpose.

    The overall idea is alright, and I’m sure I’ll try and make the best of it. So, peachy.

    Lovkles and 4tw @you.
    <3

  • I think it works. I mean if it works for movies and games, why not Xanga.

    Now, what about being able to display images from my subscriptions page?

  • Nice!

  • i dunno why you guys use this , because someone could just change their age, right? i think it’s just extra stuff..that isn’t really needed. and plus, no one really cares what’s on xanga. it’s xanga…(like the person above said)

  • Sounds pretty cool, but would you really have to get your parents to verify it? Like maybe a system where you put in your parents email, and they get sent the site to see if its appropriate?

    That would be rad.

  • that’s awesome and it solves a lot of problems

  • Nice work xanga. Nice work, indeed.

  • BTW: I am eagerly awaiting some way to keep unwanted users off my site, too!

  • hmm, interesting. i’m not sure how i feel about it tho.

    and…. i heard you went to my friend jiffipop’s birthday!! i heard you were there with your wife. i’m bummed i didnt get a chance to meet you! it would have been an honor to meet Mr. Xanga himself.

  • Good idea. Will we be rating our overall site, or each individual post we make? Or the option for both?

    Will you please respond to the many emails I have been sending you, Mary, and Help, regarding the ongoing protected posts with skins issue?

  • I find it hilarious.

    Would it be possible to do a search for the ‘ex’ rated blogs? just so people can be entertained on why it achieved such an ‘honorary’ rating, haha.

    But good idea, nonetheless.

  • I like it.  Good work, you guys!

  • YES!

  • i think the flagging system is a great idea but people’s posts vary day to day.  would we have to flag each post or the entire page?  and what if we forget to flag it?  would our page be suspended?

  • hahaa, yes, i know you’re subbed to me. thanks for that! but y’know… it still would have been super awesome to meet you. it’s like meeting a celeb.

  • wow cool =) what if kids lie about their age to see the explicit content though? =/

  • This is much better than those stupid flags.

  • Forget this for a while. It’s trivial compared to some of your other concerns, although I like the idea.

    I think you guys need to make the site flow a little more. I’ve been at Xanga for a while, and I used to love it, but now I’m turning to other places. I’d like it if you guys had a better setup concerning all the user-features (for example, Blogger and WordPress have a little bar at the top for navigation). The little things are what’s taking away your strong customer base; you’re losing people like me. I don’t want to pay for premium anymore nor do I feel like Xanga is going to improve any. So I’d like it if you guys would work on making it a better service in a whole and improve what you already have before you embark on new elements to your service.

  • Will the rating/logo/label actually be displayed on each user’s site?  How will one know?

  • My final feedback would be based on how the cross-rating system worked. Obviously, it would have to have built-in abuse protection.

    Also, I’m not entirely sure, from your post, how this system would interact with your existing flag system. Is it going to replace certain flags, or all of them? Is there a danger that this might get a bit complicated?

    I will be interested to see how this turns out.

  • might work – won’t mind trying it.

  • fantastic idea. i really like it.

  • I love that. I’d give my site a “C”.

  • Eh… I don’t really like this… or the flag system for that matter… or even the photoblog…

    I don’t think people should have to rate their blogs, it’d be annoying… I don’t really like many of these new feathers, just improve what you already have before getting to more new stuff

  • How will the actual rating be determined?  There will be your own self rating, as well as cross rating.  Will it be an average, or the highest rating given, or some other method?

  • i’m going to have to go against majority opinion here.. this sounds like a ridiculous amount of regulation that’s only going to benefit a small sliver of the xanga population. ie young little kids who won’t be paying for xanga premium anyway, but who probably know enough coding to kill the ads on their site. if someone is going to xanga surf and then complain about coming across sites that scars their souls or whatever… well, then don’t click on sites with profile pics of half naked bodies or with xanga names like xxxsexygirlxxx. and if they’re browsing the Featured Content list, then don’t click on entries where the first line is something like, “do u lyk it wen ur lover tosses your salad?” within two seconds of pageload, most people should be able to tell whether the site has any explicit content.

    you brought up the example of google image search. why don’t you follow their model then, and just go with two ratings: “General” and “18+” instead of splitting hairs and trying to arbitarily decide if an entry is b, c, or d. this is xanga, for crying out loud! do we really need more censorship on the web??

  • can we have an “N” for nerdy?

  • Nice work.  I’m truly impressed.  Pete

  • Well, it’ll make it easier for kids to find the pr0n.

    Yes, I have used Google Image Search, and I’ve noticed the ‘safe search’ doesn’t work. It neither filters out all the pr0n, nor only filters out the pr0n.

    I’m okay with ratings if:
    a) they’re voluntary, and
    b) there’s no ‘cross rating’, which is just Witch-hunt Flagging under another name.

    It allows grown-ups to have some control over what they do and don’t want to see, though why they can’t do that with their ‘back’ buttons is beyond me. But it won’t stop children viewing adult material, because you have no way of confirming the ages of users with their Safebrowse setting at ‘show me where the pr0n’s at’.

  • That looks awesome.

  • you may be on to something.

  • i like it. lots.

  • Alrighty then.

  • good idea for ratings!

  • Once again, I’m worried about the vagueness of the ratings. Rating systems are again very vague and differ vastly depending on location. Basing your ratings on the MPAA guidelines is all well and good, but European rating systems differ, and whilst it is difficult to find a happy medium I’m still leery.

  • i’m against regulation, but this is the first half-decent approach i’ve heard in a while. still though, if the kiddies want teh pr0n, they’ll eventually figure out how to get their grubby little hands on it. might as well save em the effort.

    Cheers!

  • i like the idea. Keeps me from baad people

  • I think it’s a great idea, but people may not follow the rules, lol.

    But it’s still a great idea.

  • Would this be a rating that one could apply to specific posts or to their entire Xanga? Maybe I’m just not getting it. Either way… it’s a good idea on how to warn a viewer about what they will be looking at…

    … also, would we be able to choose whether we participate in it or not? What is we just want ‘un-rated’…?

    Thanks for all the hard work though! :)

  • I’m confused by the correlation with movie ratings. G means all ages, as in suitable for preschoolers. But under the Xanga TOS, users must be 13, right? So what constitutes “young children” in Xanga terms?

  • I think that it is good that you pointed out the fact that much of what you are enforcing here is not just against the TOS, but against the law. 

    I am still annoyed by the fact that so have complained about the flagging, in general … as if their freedoms were being taken away.  They had no problems agreeing to the terms of service when they signed up.  Why complain when they are enforced? 

    Regarding the rating system:  I don’t have a problem with this; I will be viewing only what I am comfortable with.  Unfortunately, many children are looking to view porn and will find a way around whatever safeguards are instilled, short of completely removing it (policing Xanga).  That said, if they don’t find it here, they will find it someplace else and I think that you are doing what is realistic. 

    Thanks for your efforts.  Best of luck.

  • Well, it depends. Are people allowed to set their own? Would the age of someone block certain levels? Then you’ve got the issue of people lying about their ages even more than now. Which opens it up to even MORE acts against children.

    Ie: Someone who is 25 looks at a 13 year old girl who lies and says she’s 18. He starts hitting on her and they get wrapped up. His fault? No. You never can tell by looks these days.

  • ryc: The thing is, the purpose of the current flagging system (with the exception of “Adult Content”) is to weed out ILLEGAL entries, not to rate whether a certain blog is “appropriate” for a 12 year old vs a 14 year old. Following the law is very different from censorship. Flags like “Hijacked Account,” “Underage Nudity,” “Threat of Physical Harm”… those are all legal issues, not content issues, and I understand them to be an undesirable but necessary part of xanga.

    I’m not quite sure if there’s a clear need for the rating system. I can see the need for keeping explicit content, whether text or pictures, in a separate category. But what else are you going to rate? Swear words? Kids learn how to swear in schoolyards. Discussions about what it’s like for little Susie to grow up in a home with two daddies? That’s in the newspaper. A story about how Gabrielle cheated on her husband? That’s 9o’clock on ‘Desperate Housewives’. A conspiracy about a major religion being built on lies and the subjugation of women? That’s the Da Vinci Code.

    A content rating system gives the impression of being kid-safe without actually doing anything of substance. All it adds is additional bureaucracy, and the internet does not thrive on additional regulation. That perhaps may be necessary with the whole MySpace fiasco, but you’d be better off directing your energies at keeping child-predators off Xanga.

    I resubmit my previous suggestion: cut down your 5 rating categories to two, General and 18+. Or better yet. Just make one unobtrusive flag that readers can click on if they feel an entry is not appropriate for minors.

    And when this is all over, could you guys perhaps look into providing more functions that many of your premium users have been asking for, like multiple protected lists? Thanks John. =)

  • Not a bad idea, but my stuff is pretty tame. Should I use some kind of warning if I do a math blog?

  • sweet.

  • i don’;t think it is a good idea to let people rate themselves. what might be appropriate to one person might not be for another person. someone might have a lot of swearing in their post and not think there’s anything wrong with it, so they rate it suitable for all ages, when really it should not be for all ages.

  • sounds good
    Kelly

  • I like the voluntary ratings thing. It seems reasonable to me.

  • Much better than censorship!Very cool

  • This looks very good and very in-depth. Way to go, guys.

  • Hello. This is The_Jumbo_Shrimp.

    I think that the review is a really good idea. I just have a few questions:

    1.  Are you grading the whole site, or just certain entries. I’m guessing the whole site, but I’d like to be sure.

    2.  Does giving your content a bad review bar your site from certain readers? If this is true, couldn’t someone just crack into my site and change my review to Explicit if, say, she/he doesn’t agree with our views? That way no one else could read about my opinions.

    3.  If, assuming your answer to Q. 2 is that it bars your site, couldn’t non-crackers still take advantage of the system by getting a ton of their friends to give your site bad reviews?

    Sorry. I just noticed a couple of holes.

    From Oblivious to Oblivion,
    Shrimpy

  • A++ xanga. i wasn’t very fond of the flagging system but i’m all for a rating system.

  • I want other ratings as well. Like: warning, content may be offensive.

  • I think that sounds kind of stupid.  I couldn’t rate my site once, it’s on a day to day type of thing, some days I feel vulgar, some days not so much.  If a 13 year old wanders into my site and doesen’t like what they read, they can leave, it’s free choice.

  • So, why is it that you get reamed for kid porn and not all of it? I’m not trying to be a wench or anything, don’t get me wrong, I’m just saying, Hey, gonna get rid of one area of porn, might as well get rid of it all.
    Again, just general observation.

  • pretty cool!

  • Also: is this going to be a rating for your entire site, or per-posting? And once you are rated, do you have to stick with it? What if you only post one racy entry on an otherwise family-oriented site? Hmm…

  • hhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!
    ***shannan***

  • its ok. when does it start?

  • Interesting……….still undecided if this is good or bad.

  • There is no way that anyone would honestly rate their site.  I mean…most of the people who have offensive contact post it just to get a reaction out of others.  Those people don’t care about who might view it.  They’re definitely going to put the A rating on their site.  It’s not a bad idea, It’s just a ridiculous idea to enforce.  There’s no way you could go through and make sure all of the ratings are accurate.  And what about the abandoned, but not shut down sites?  Who would rate those?  Or the people who update monthly, and don’t know about the ratings?  You might want to put in a default “not rated”. 

  • I love the ratings!!  That way, I don’t have to preface certain entries with a warning that the “f-bomb” may be dropped. 

    Good work!

  • ya i say go for it

  • ALOT BETTER, THANK YOU

  • This is a much better idea.  Thank you for taking everyone’s thoughts into consideration.  It has been such a mess around here with all the censorship whining.

  • much better than the flagging system. i like the idea, it’ll be nice when browsing. i don’t think its necessary to prevent people whatever their age from accessing certain xangas but it would be nice to have a warning before VIOLENCE AND SEX flash on my screen.

  • excellent idea

  • Thank goodness y’all went ahead and thought this one up. I think it’s WONDERFUL and will help a whole lot. Because many of us want to express ourselves through the topics we see fit. We also want to post without fear of Xanga’s current teen members getting in the way of our right to free expression. Since their clueless parents don’t understand enough to actually keep a constant watchful eye on their offspring’s habits… lol

  • i second moniet, how to block certain people from coming to our sites at all.

  • i love this idea! yeah, go Xanga! You’re the best ever since I entered into your service data base – you people have upgrading like i have never seen before – at least not at this rate with Photoblogs, Flags, Snychs, Xanga-only viewing, etc…

    THANKS A LOT XANGA!

    I LOVE YOU ALL!

  • Wow, that’s a wonderful idea! I’ve always had issues with porn on xanga, it’s like there’s a happy side of xanga that everyone sees, and then the dark side that you come across and you’re like woah, i didn’t even realize that stuff would be on here! I dunno, maybe I’m just naive. But still, great idea guys, I’m glad you’re making an effort to keep xanga safe for everyone.

  • kool!!!

  • Fucking stupid. Nobody needs your babysitting you idiots.

  • thank you xanga! 

    You guys are doing an awesome job in adding and improving things.  I for one appreciate it.

  • Something that is needed, I’m sure. Thank you for what you do to keep xanga from turning into a playground for predators

  • Much better idea.  I don’t feel the flagging system will work, if, as occurs in AOL chatrooms, members are reported simply because their opinions disagree with those of a visitor, sometimes leading to a discontinuation in service until the situation is resolved.  On the other hand, I don’t mind the offering a rating, but I do believe it should remain the blogger’s choice.  Otherwise, we are on our way to an ethical swamp.

  • Are there any set standards for the ratings? I’m unsure of what I’d give my site; the vast majority of my posts are A, but a few of them might cross over into B or even C. I rarely watch movies, so I’m not quite sure what qualifies for PG and what qualifies for PG-13 (I’ve heard that movie ratings tend to be flexible, anyway). Plus, while I don’t swear on my blog, I never censor people’s comments.

  • hope this will work better than the flagging.  because people can take their flag buttons off and then smut is still being seen by anyone.  i emailed yall about one site inparticular, and nothing was done about it.

  • Well, finally a new feature I think might be of some use. And better than the censorship crap earlier. Although you can find plenty of porn on xanga if you just type the word porn into your own search feature.

  • THAT is very awesome. I like that the blogger gets to chose a rating also. Much much much better than the flags, I didn’t like those at all. Will the rating appear on the page? That might be nice.

  • I think it’s a good idea! I know alot of people with Xangas that don’t feel comfy with “minors” reading their page and this is a great way to regulate that.

  • I like this idea better than the flags, but would this ratings system apply to specific entries or a site in general?

  • Same question as several others have mentioned I’m sure… is it overall or per-post? I don’t want to have to rate my entire site down to accomodate the few posts that don’t lie within the levels of the rest.

  • So like, is there some way to see what flags our sites have? I’ve been looking around and not finding it. I doubt any one has flagged my site anyhow, I’m pretty boring, but I’d like to know where to look.
    Btw if anyone reading this knows the answer, please do come post a comment on my blog telling me.

  • I LIKE IT!!!!!

  • not to be rude, and i don’t know if you’re going to see this, but if you do, could you get someone to respond to our emails? i’ve sent one asking for profile help a while ago, and i have yet to receive a response. i sure hope im not paying premium only to be ignored.

  • Tough job. My guess is people will all rate their blogs as ex, just in case, and all the kids will change their birthdays to before 1985. 

  • good job

  • Great, but I’m an automatic explicit…

  • wtf is that shit you post??
    im to lazy to read it && i prolly wouldnt understand it enyways;;
    ttyl;;

    [<3]

  • Brilliant!

  • way too far with the ratings

    but i like the flags things though

  • The rating system: two thumbs up. There is an issue about people lying about their age, but it works because xangans might start thinking a lot about what they write and who reads it…and conscious, conscientious effort like that can only lead toward exemplary thought..isn’t that what this community is all about?

  • I’ve always prided myself on the fact that if my site had a rating it would be “G”, safe for all audiences. Now it actually can be rated “G”.

  • you do great work and the only reason why I put out a flag was cause that person was hating everyone and thats not cool

    keep up the great work

    Xanga Rocks!!!!!!!

  • hah i like how you used the letters..

  • Big Daddy rules!  If you were a 14 year old kid and you were alone in the study with your computer, sure that Mum and Dad were watching their fave program on tv and so you had a good 15 mins before you were disturbed and you came across the Xanga ratings, which would you go for, the A or the X?  My kid would definitely go for the X, I would have too when I was a kid.  Your intentions are good, but the practice is likely to be the exact opposite of your intentions.

    Also would you rate posts or blogs?  People’s blogs aren’t all one thing, they often reflect their lives.  Work all week, family every day, school Mon-Fri, drunk Sat night, maybe a spliff or a line or two, and a good f*ck with the guy in the dorm next door, and sorry next day, with a hangover.  How do you rate that?

  • I just reread the post. You can’t do age verification. Any kid bright enough to have a Xanga will be bright enough to put in an age of 18+.

  • The rateing’s is a good idea, as a parent I agree, its a sign of Xanga’s sucsess!!! There are so many members now that it was only a matter of time, plus its the same old advice, but still good advice, KNOW WHAT YOUR KIDS ARE DOING ONLINE! Plus enforcement will a problem up to the nc-17 rateing.
    I dont say these things to be negetive, the open forum has been great, its a shame has to end.

  • i dig it. -Z

  • i really like the rating system. it’s a great idea.

    i just have one simple question: some people’s sites have alyouts that over-ride certain links, like the ads at the top of the page and things like that. but now they also over-ride the link for flagging. is there another way we can report serious offences to xanga, without needing to click on the “flag” link?

    i’ll read over the terms of use and the other topics in the faq, but i’m still wondering about that “flag” link.

    good luck with all of this/you guys are doing an amazing job!

    -kimmm

  • umm i think the reason they’re doing this is because of the recent legislation wanting to ban myspace/xanga/other social networking sites from public libraries and schools.

  • I really do not see how the verification will work – You gonna ask them their age – then they will put in a different age – That’s what kids do – Then they will do whatever they want.  I can see no way that this verification of age will work.  They tried it in TalkCity years ago – A  popup asking DOB – and kids just worked out what age they needed to be – And put in that DOB – Kids are sneaky – That’s their job

    As said above seeing pics in the subs pages would be nice.

  • And as was said above ANSWERING OUR EMAILS WOULD BE NICER

    I asked you a while ago why some of my pics turned to just X’s – Nobody ever answers emails anymore.  I did not delete the pics – I thought (thought being the operative word) that my pics were safe being held on Xanga – Then they are ‘no more’ – Showing me I should never have thought they were safe.

    A few years ago you actually answered emails – Now…. Nothing

  • This Film is Not Yet Rated. Good movie. Also: be careful what you’re modelling after.

    On a more serious note, these rating systems are flawed (some people may think sex is ok but not strong language, etc.). Why don’t you use PICS or another standard which allows for more granularity?

  • love it.

  • I understand keeping younger readers from certain things, but I also believe in the saying ‘if you don’t like it, don’t read it.’

    And if you’re so worried about porn, why not shut down the sites where that’s all it is? I don’t think Xanga was created so people could re-post any type of pornographic image they want on their site because they think it’s cool. Those are the type of sites (and I use that term lightly) that are forcing you to actually come up with a ratings system for people’s online journals… their own thoughts are now being rated like some crappy Tom Cruise movie because some teenager in his mother’s basement likes to post pics of Jenna Jamieson because him and his friends like to get off to that sort of thing.

    Do something about the people who abuse this service instead of throwing a blanket over us all.

  • I’m not sure how, but it seems as if some people have disabled the flagging option on their sites. Such as this one: http://www.xanga.com/x__thinambition
    Yes, I know that “it’s-her-life-not-mine” so I should “let-her-live-the-way-she-wants-to”, but there are so many easier alternatives to fasting than what she’s putting herself through.

    Thank you for your time.

  • sounds like a plan to me.

  • sup john. wut idea?

  • Very Cool!!!

  • i like it!

  • Sounds like a good idea.

  • great idea!

  • much better idea.  i’m a c.

  • I know it’s been 27 days and that I still await my premium privileges. My check should have arrived at Xanga by now???? I really like blogging with xanga!!!

  • haha… YA YOU MADE THE NEWS TONIGHT!!!

    so exciting.

  • Sounds good enough.

  • absolutely not.

  • Very nice.

  • Great!!

  • Awesome.

  • so easy to remeber

  • my inappropriate content…varies. maybe someone else shoudl rate me lol :)

  • Terrific idea!!  At last it sounds like you folks are thinking!! (no offense!)

    This sounds like something that could work!!!

  • A great idea I think it will be good to use this type of safety for younger people.

  • In response to ThatsWhy:  Obviously you are forgetting that it is a parent’s job to be aware of what their children are accessing.  We cannot expect the entire world to do our job for us. A rating system like this is helpful to parents who are trying to do their job by telling them – up front – what sort of content a blog may contain.  If a child circumvents the ratings system, the parent needs to step in and tell them that their actions are inappropriate and do something to prevent it from happening again. (such as monitoring what their children are viewing on the computer much like we should monitor what they are watching on TV or not allowing their child on the computer without parental supervision)

  • I think Xanga should implement a filter that allows an adult to filter out all blogs of those under 18 and not even see them. I think some adults would appreciate not surfing into the adolescent zone, and feel better about their potential tracking record.

  • A step towards a safer xanga :thumbs up:

  • This is a much better step than previous efforts.

  • this is ugly

  • oh this is way cool… like it..

  • It sounds so nifty. [:

  • i hope this will not be a required field for post submissions; it’s not the blogger’s job to monitor what someone else’s kid sees online. 

  • FAAAAABULOUS!!!!! 

  • sounds cool, my parents will love this, but what if someone under-rates their site?

  • First let me say I know what a tough job you have trying to please everyone. If you do one thing to please a certain group, you’re going to upset the other group. I don’t envy your job.

    Now, my view on all this: I think this turns xanga into a censership and regulated site. I’ve never had anything x rated on my site that I’m aware of, and I don’t like x rated sites. But just like with the tv, if something offends me I change the channel. It’s something that is no big deal and takes little effort on my part. I’m a Christian and try to live by certain guidelines, but that doesn’t mean everyone is or wants to be, and I don’t think it’s my job to tell other people how to live their lives or what to think or say.

    The child porn or threat sites are a different story. They are wrong by anyone’s standards, or at least I would think so. Simple enough to report these sites. The rest of them..it’s their business what they want to put up. It’s their site. If it offends you, don’t ever go back. I know there’s a lot of trash on the internet in general. But I may think my site is tame, and someone else may think it’s not. People have different opinions as to what is tame and what is not.

    To sum it up, xanga is supposed to be a place for people to write their thoughts and no one is forced to read them. If the internet and blogging sites are going to be regulated then we all may as well start writing in our old fashioned diaries again…on paper.

    One more thing..when my children were home I paid attention as best I could as to what they were watching and reading. That’s a parent’s job. And if something slipped by me I didn’t want them to see or read, I really don’t think it damaged them for life. And a parent can put a password into their computer and block certain kinds of sites from their children. I did.

    If this is all voluntary, that’s fine. But if it’s mandatory, this is not good.

  • I think the ratings should be a bit looser.  Children under thirteen aren’t allowed to use Xanga anyway by your own terms of service.  So why “child” ratings?

  • I love it! I think it will help kids know what their looking at.

  • I think its impossible for Xanga to try to take this on,  its just too big to police.  Really the internet is being treated like a big playground where kids can come  and hang out.  Its simply not that way.  The internet is like the world.

    You wouldn’t let a 12 year old travel into a big city by themselves  right…  or walk down the strip  at 4am on a saturday night.  Why?  Cause it would be inappropriate.  and bad parenting.  No child should be left unacompanied on the internet.  Its as simple as that.

    Your job is just to notify relevant authorities about people trying to groom kids  and child photographs etc.   Don’t try to take on the web.. its not your fault there are weirdos out there.  Its the responsibility of parent to act with good judgment.

    Regards

    Owen  -  Ps  Xanga is like the best thing ever

  • It is however a good way to help Parents.. and help xanga filter things,  but  doesn’t it just work within Xanga?

  • like the flagging system, not the rating system though.

  • sweet. good idea. fine line can be crossed between censorship and expressing to different audiences. got more to say in a stronger way? get another site! one for all ages (and lets face it, anyone can use a computer and access xanga) and another for more radical content.

    love it!

  • this is sooo useless….no1 pays attention to this shit, its like “parental advisory” warning on music CDs…hu cares about these?!

  • Not so sure about this rating system. I think it would just invite all sort of problems and actually encourage people to put up more “questionable” content if they know they can deter the “conservatives” from viewing their site with a rating system, thus getting away with a lot more than they normally would have. Seen the same thing happening on youtube.com, it’s unbelievable how much stuff is getting pass them now ever since they put up a rating 18+ system. Even though most of the 18+ stuff is nothing but porn, child stuff, since it’s behind that rating system tag, most people won’t bother to check and make sure that nothing shady is getting through. Just my 2 cents.

  • GREAT idea. Can’t wait for this to start up!

  • such a brilliant plan…. :)

  • yesss !
    I love this.
    one time I went on somebody’s site by accedent & sawww some gross stuff =/

  • This is a BRILLIANT IDEA!!!

  • I like this much better than the flagging system. At least this way you can speak your mind and not have to worry about getting your site shut down b/c someone who didn’t like it decided to flag it.

    However, when it comes to death threats and child porn, I really hope those sites are taken care of accordingly even after this new rating system.

    So does this mean we’ll have both flags and ratings? If so, that’ll also be really great.

    You guys at Xanga are awesome! Keep up the good work!

  • 1. This is way better than the flagging system. I think it could actually be good. Will the flags for Adult Content be gone? Please do keep the flags for illegal content.

    2. Of course people will lie about their age, and there’s nothing you’ll ever do about that. But that’s no reason to not give those who appreciate it the opportunity to choose what kind of content they want to view. Seriously. When I was a kid I was friggin scared of porn. I’d have liked to have a button that keeps me from seeing it.

    3. Please please give people an opportunity to rate single posts. Maybe it would be cool to give a standard rating for your blog in your settings, so you’d only have to make an extra click for the occasional post that would be rated differently.

    4. I’m not happy with the categories. They’re too vague for my taste: The ratings differ from country to country, maturity and tastes differ from person to person. Maybe I do not want to see violence, but I don’t mind porn?

    Therefore I suggest to base the categories not on age, but on content types: violence, explicit sexual content, offensive language… I think you wouldn’t need to many different ones, and it would be less vague and confusing.

    5. If you stick with the age categories I am all for reducing the number of them. I have no clue what the exact difference between b, c and d is.

  • Great idea!

  • On the flag system; I do hope you seriously consider posting a copyright violation flag. Thus far, you only have a “breaking the Law” flag. I understand that copyright violation is breaking the law…but it would be nice to have it as a unique flag. We are after all, like it or not, a virtual society of writers.
     
    Ratings:
     
    “you’d be able to self-rate your own content, and cross-rate each others” Having experience in operating and moderating an ASP portal, I think I understand what this will amount too. It will be difficult to decide what “weight” the users self-rate will be assigned. Further, what weight his/her readership will have via their ratings/votes. This is going to prove a most unique challenge.
     
    One of the problems you WILL face is those who say, “This is clearly a “d” blog and it is rated “b”.” They will then rate a blog because of the single entry they read versus reading a few hundred entries and then making a more enlightened decision. Further, you will have “packs” of like minded individuals, converging on a blog, and slamming it with a specific rating because they perceive the blog as “d” or “ex”.
     
    I am never one to point out a potential nightmare without offering a glimmer of hope! You might well consider a double rating block. Meaning, Owner rates site as “b” visitors rank site as “d”. While this will not stop the onslaught of email complaints (I suggest a unique email box for this one x-godz!) it will allow the owners, especially a premium users…idea…new thought…
     
    Why not make all the FREE blogs force-rated by the public. Hell, its free, the public as every right to rate the blog as they see fit. Give the freeloader no option to rate their own blog. However, if the blog is PREMIUM, allow the owner to have their (the owners) rating up and then beside or below it, “Average readers rating.” This will give the readership a clue as to what they are looking at. Meaning, the author feels this page is “a” material but the average (mean) readership says it is a bit of a “b” blog.  
     
    Brilliant! One more reason to purchase Premium!
     
    Just a thought or three…
     
    Sail on… sail on!!!

  • Do it!!!!

  • The link for safety/parents at the bottom of the page is very helpful.  It’s wonderful that you’ve contacted a professional to team up with the major efforts you’ve put in already.  The ratings system is one I would participated in, and I don’t know why no one else thought of this yet.  Kudos for coming up with it, Xanga Team!

  • i’m down with that.

  • Outstanding!

  • i like it..

    but if your say 17 and younger..shouldnt you not be allowed to view pages with a rating higher than C?

  • cute

  • I like this idea a lot better. How would you know what a site is rated before you go into it though??

  • good idea, but I’m curios

    A: How will individual sites be judged?

    B: How will the judging be updated(if a site is clean for a year and then goes dirty)?

    C: Will this allow people to create sites that previously were against the rules?

  • I see the point — I just still view it as censorship….. The idea of a blog is to be a place to express your opinion freely — not decide or have decided if that idea is G rated or X rated. It is just YOUR IDEAS!!

    As for age verification, that seems twisted. Now you take something and make it AOL-ish with credit card verification. And the censorship idea sounds a lot like BLOGGER.

    The cool thing about Xanga to start with was THE FREEDOM TO JUST BE

    Want something to focus your energy on?? Focus it on people STEALING content off sites or people being violent and threatening.

  • sounds good

  • good idea

  • I think it’s a great idea.

  • cool

  • What’s the point in having a rating for small children when you have to be 13 to even have a xanga?

  • Well it’s an OK idea I guess, but the thing is, you’ll never ever have complete control–look what a mess myspace degenerated into. It’s already happening here, but just on a smaller scale, cause there’s like 70 million people over there.  It seems that, wherever something starts out like a cool, usable thing (AOL, IRC, myspace, whatever, the pervs and pornographers always have to come a long and ruin it. (Don’t get me wrong I love porn, but I’m an adult). Also, I love girls half my age. But, I’m 51 so girls half my age are legal :P So, what I’m saying is I guess, it’s a shame you have to have something like “ratings” but you should probably do it.

  • awesome work xanga tean *happy* I like the flagging system to keep xanga users safe.

    Glenda

  • moniet–block them, you can do that

    And in regards to the flagging, kudos.

    The rating idea, I love it ^_^ I don’t want some angry parent yelling at their kid for reading a colorful vent I just posted about work or people or something. Becuase I get *ahem* COLORFUL at times.

    Keep up the good work!

  • sometimes people are just total dicks and flag someone out of spite for no apparent reason. how do you deal with that?

  • Very cool!!

  • This seems like a much better way to go, guys!  Thanks!

  • Best idea ever!

  • ditto. i’ve blocked this kid but he’s still getting on. next project, maybe?

    but keep up the good work.

  • Awesome. Feels like a movie rating system. Pretty soon we’ll have a 2 thumbs up review maybe.

  • how come you can’t flag a hatred blogring?

  • interesting….. cant see me using it though.

  • it’s kinda big project…

  • I like it.

  • Cool…. when do you plan to start implementing it?

  • that wouldn’t help much, i think

  • I think it’s a great idea.  This is what I suggested in the initial Flags post.

    Although it would be very nice if you could keep blocked people off your site entirely and do something about blocked people just making another xanga name so they can harrass you over and over again.  I have a few people who have made 10 xangas or more just so they can get around my blocking.  I hate that!

  • MUCH better idea than the flags for evaluating mature content.  The flags did seem like censorship, since really there is nothing illegal about posting most of the “flaggable” content; but access is a problem. The ratings system gives surfers a much better idea of what to expect on a site.  I approve!!!  :o D

  • if someone really wanted to view your stuff, they can just change their age or create a new xanga just for viewing.  which is precisely what i have noticed about the footprints.  so many people come by my xanga with no content and i realized that it’s because they dont want people to know who they are… and they created new accounts just to surf.

    -ray leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  • Nice idea.  Are you starting this up because of the news story last night on Fox’s-10 o’ clock news? 

  • Many people have asked about the overall or per-post issue. But one thing that I’ve only seen hinted at is “what to do about rating of comments?” Will commentors (as well as page owners) also have the ability to rate submitted comments?

  • excellent. this is long overdue.

  • Yeah, it’s still a good Idea in theory

    But in all practically, basically worthless to stop the majority of people. I mean, if someone REALLY wanted to look at a site, they could find a way. This system will only stop the casual browsers who have limited to no knowledge of computers

    Nice, but futile

    _Andrew

  • John, here’s my take on the relatively minimal details provided to date.

    1. I hope that I can set a flag in my personal settings so that as I browse, I get warned or even “stopped” (while just surfing around xanga) from hitting page with content that I would likely find offensive.

    2. I too am curious how things are going to be set up.

    3. I am curious about techniques to keep people from working around the setup.

    4. I think it would be very useful to actually discuss, somewhere (if you feel here is not the place) the REASONS for implementing some of these things.

  • i’m ready for it!

  • i have been waiting for a system something close to this! this stuff is awesome! i believe every media should use this system type of system, even the radio.

  • thats sexy, xanga

  • great!

  • it bothers me,
    But if it prevents xanga from getting shut down then rock on.

    ~Missey

  • I guess I’m fine with the ratings system until it interfers with my ease of use given that I am an adult and don’t want to have to prove this simply to view a couple blogs.

  • You know what Xanga should have. An Instant Messenger. That would be the best……

  • Sounds good to me. While I don’t dabble in inappropriate content, it’s a good idea to protect the younger ones who are offended by it if they come across it.

    If any user can “rate” someone, though, make sure it can’t be abused. I’ve seen places that have rating systems that get abused to hell and back.

  • WTF? A self rating system. It seems very open to abuse as well as mislabeling. 
    I feel like blogs are more akin to a print medium and last time I checked… books did not come with PG 13 ratings.
    I might be wrong but it just feels like a lot of wasted effort.  But whatever keeps parents from getting their feathers ruffled is probably good in the end.

  • Hey, I like this idea! But I do have a question – if someone stole your stuff (like, if you made layouts and someone jocked them), if you were to flag them, would that be under Scam or Malicious Impersonation? And would it be possible to shut down the jocker’s site? I’m asking because I have a friend in this situation. Thanks! And great idea about the rating system!

  • Sweet this rating system thing is gonna help a lot, thanks guys!

  • this is a smart business move considering the fact that there is so much hoopla about safety on the net and all that…it might not be of any practical use but it will surely reassure parents and other “watch-dogs” …

  • perfect!

  • The ratings system is kind of what I had in mind for xanga. MSN has something similar. Good idea.

  • How is this going to affect things like featured content?  Will you refuse to feature those sites with higher ratings in order to protect the younger readers?  In which case how will people randomly bump into those they’d like to read regularly?

    Also, won’t this just Encourage younger readers to seek out higher rated sites for a thrill?  Isn’t it advertising which sites are “bad” for you and which “good”?

    And doesn’t moral judgement have a lot to do with this?

    It saddens me to say it, but if the new ratings discriminate against those of us who are of a legal age and find it perfectly acceptable to address particular topics, I’ll have to move to LiveJournal.  And I really don’t want to do that, ’cause I like it in this neighborhood.  :(

  • P.S. I’m not talking about kiddie porn here!  That’s repulsive and should be both reported and removed from your site.  I’m just talking about being a 21 year old who likes to drop the F-bomb occassionally.

  • i think it’s a wonderful idea. :)

  • Great idea, love it.

  • I am so impressed with your new safety standards, I have been very upset about my space. They need to take a page from you and verify the ages of the children signing up for xanga. I saw the Channel 11 news last night and was horified! They reported that you were changing your safety standards and I see that it is happening! Law enforcement involved, rating system and having to use a credit card. Absolutely wonderful! Koodos to you! I am sure lot’s of parents will feel much better knowing there is at least one responsible site. Many thanks!

  • how would you check people’s ages? by what they put down on their own? they can say anything they want to. how can there be accountability in xanga?

  • nice, keep up the good work

  • I don’t think this rating system will work.

    How many people are going to actually comply and accurately rate their site? I know I won’t because my site is protected anyway so random idiots on google couldn’t see anything deemed offensive. if someone doesn’t like what I have to say then I’m more than happy to show them out the door.

    There’s no way you can make this work because I think it involves too much policing on your part, and as I’ve read through some of the comments, you don’t even respond quick enough to users’ emails.

    Why bother with the rating system anyway when you know people are just going to lie about their age in order to view pages? You already have little 11 and 12 year olds lying that they’re of legit age to use this site. What makes you think one of them is going to be honest and correctly “verify their age”?

  • it sounds cool. hopefully it would work and stop the nonsence. but good job

  • VERY cool, and I definitely agree with putting this in :)

  • brilliant!

  • Yea… I love it because I got in trouble one time because my parents check where i have been on the computer and I had gotten on a site that was supposed to be icons and it was icons but they were bad ones. That will help a lot to xanga and just makes it safer =) Chelsii

  • no problems with it. but where will this sign come up? on the corner of our pages or?

  • thats awesome

  • Great ideas!  I love the rating system!

  • I better at least get a D.

  • Very nice idea :)

  • WONDERFUL idea!!!  I like this SO much!

  • Super cool, I vote in favor of this plan slash idea.

  • i think it is better than relying on the opinions of other users to block material that may be not to everyones taste yet not against any laws.  thanks for protecting ALL of us, not just kids.

  • I’m seriously against these ratings. Just one more restriction placed on people. Obviously child porn or death threats are a different matter, but besides that, I don’t like restrictions being placed on what I can/can’t see.

  • As an R-rated blogger and a mom to minors on xanga – I LOVE IT!

  • wow..that’s just cool. ^_^

  • I think it is a great idea. I think folks with children can especially appreciate this. I have a 9 yr old, but she is not allowed to read my xanga. I use the F word often in my entries…lol…and I don’t think my site is appropriate reading for children. Therefore, I will mark my site appropriately. Thanks Xanga!

  • Excellent idea…..nicely done.

  • Nice…

  • this sounds like a great idea. but will it make some youngsters more interested in viewing the Ex rated stuff?

  • Better than those flags…still kinda lame, IMO. It’s the Internet. Use at your own risk. If you read the F word it’s your own fucking problem.

    ^^^Does that make this comment PG-13 or R?

  • Hmmmm…

    Who rates them?

  • i like the whole idea of flagging but i don’t think this new system is specific enough. someone might not be bothered by sexual content, but there my be some other area of content they don’t want such as violence, etc. i like the way the new flagging sytem works, and there should be some idication on a site that contains stuff, but i think these guidelines are too general. also, i think the list of reasons we can flag people should be expanded to be more specific. i came across a really disturbing site the other day where someone was encouraging people to leave comments about how they would kill people who drive SUVs because they are annoying – and some really vlgar comments were left. but there was no flag for that kind of thing.

  • love the rating idea~ it truly is amazing as to how quickly xanga has evolved.. i wonder if you’re even gonna get to read my comment.  ^^*  LOL

  • Oh, duh.

    Self-rate. Crap.

    I dunno how well this is gonna work. I think that people will post what they want to post, people will lie about their age, and how would you get parental identification? How many kids would actually put down their parents’ addresses… it’s so simple to just make another one.

    I think that the site should simply be PG-13. If you’re under 13, you’re not supposed to be here. If you want to post a cyber sex invitation or nudie pictures, go somewhere else. That should be it.

  • good stuff people! but how do i keep people w/ fake/blank accounts from roaming around & lurking? i’ve put in place the xanga lock… i’ve flagged them, and i’ve blocked them… but they still can lurk. they just can’t leave comments or email me.  i’ve resorted to displaying their names in my entries to tell them how weird they are… & even that’s not really helping.

    am i just stuck w/ 2 creepy people w/ blank profiles forever? or should i just delete my account & start over? don’t get me wrong… i’m fully aware that this is public… it’s a silly blog & i don’t really write anything too personal or anything. if there’s really nothing i can do… then i’ll just continue putting a sentence at the end of each entry that tells them directly i’m not a fan of them as their are a fan of me… =)

  • Love it.

  • B and C seem almost the same. Maybe a little different wording would clarify the difference between them.

  • How would this work?

  • I like this idea ALOT better. I feel like I’d be censored with the flags only, but this is good, because some people shouldn’t or choose not to view certian stuff.

  • It’s a great idea, but wouldn’t kids purposly go to the NC-17 at stores and movies tehy don’t have to sell the stuff or let the kids in the movies, and around here they really can’rt see an R movie unless a parent buys the ticket. How could you monitor this? The cencorship argument really bugs me. It is also illegal for kids under the age of 18 to view any kind of porn and some sites on xanga are clearly porn, I think it’s kind of obvious what kind of sites I am talking about. Not one of the sites that I have read that was so paranoid about the flags have been shut down, as they should not be shut down. But it was stupid of them to be paraniod in the first place. The bottom line is, with all the news about My Space ( bad press ) Xanga would be following the same path had you all not done something. But I don’t see how the rating thing would work.

  • you guys should really do a better job as to who is joining xanga becuase sum people are really sick. this site is eventually going to be as bad as myspace

  • This is such a GREAT idea!!!
    I have been to more than 1 bad site accidentally, so thanx or this rating system. Keep it up guys.

  • Ratings: Good. Great idea.
    Flags: Sure. I don’t care either way. Not a bad thing, but yeah.

  • so the rating is just gonna be there, it will not actually block ppl out?

  • I think that is a really good way to focus on the issues!  Good Job!

  • I think it’s a good idea in theory… but I’m not sure it’s actually going to make a difference… plenty of kids lie about their ages to get onto sites they’re not supposed to see…

    Also, how are you supposed to know which rating to give your site? Are there some sort of guidelines??

  • This rating system is censorship at its worst.  As a minor, I am only allowed to view C and under rated sites.  That really pisses me off, and I hope that most people will see through this and rate their site A.

  • creative.

  • love the idea.

    [-Min-]

  • yeah another upgrade to xanga wooooooohooooooo man i love it when we get somethin else.

  • Seems good to me.

  • That’s pretty cool… but how will it show up on our sites?

  • ahh, i could definitely survive without it.

  • That’s not such a bad idea, I guess.

  • I guess I’m a little confused… I would think NC-17 would be against the Xanga guidelines.

    Further, what’s ‘R’ to one person could be PG-13 to another… for example, I move in ‘christchun’ circles… to them, my site would be “C”, while to me it’s “B”.

    Worse, this system will be *so* easy to abuse.  Make a disgusting “EX” site, tag it as “A”, and you’ll have tons of little(er) people visiting your smut… which only shouldn’t be on Xanga in the first place?  Wondering why this is needful, I guess…

  • do we pick our own ratings? or are the ratings judged for us?

  • Is this feature available now? If so, how do we use/access it?

  • I think it’s a little too specific.  It’s either:  kids should or should NOT be in here.  a, b, c, d…blah blah.

    how do you plan on verifying age?

    i know you all don’t want to do this, and are having to simply comply, but why not make it as easy as possible on yourselves?

  • there should be a way to explain why you rate your site the way you do

  • cool beans man

  • It’s a brilliant idea.

  • This looks like about the best way to handle this problem! I love it!

  • this is really cool and an awesome idea.

    hats off to you and the rest of the xanga team.

    emily

  • like wh0a… ^ ^;…

  • i’m unable to change the safebrowse. it’s set on on “C caution”. is it a bug in the system?

  • Why don’t you just leave them the way they are instead of going through all the trouble of changing them?

    Just a thought.

  • i like it

  • haha cool idea!!
    i love how it’s A-E rating.

  • but then again, how good of a monitoring will this be? wouldn’t some ppl abuse it?
    sometimes more restrictions, other problems result but it’s worth a try.

  • That’s a good idea.

  • Ugh. Not so sure I like that…

  • this is xanga. the whole reason some people have it is because they can write whatever they want on their sites, without verification of age or something. so if you start making people verify it, lots of people will stop posting or get rid of their xangas.

  • cool site dude

  • cool site dude

  • Sounds great.

  • ratings are not a good idea. you should shut down sites that promote things against the law. biggest problem is sex/prostitution and violence

  • Have you considered more specific rating systems, like the one used by Internet Explorer? It filters based on criteria, not just age restrictions. Say for instance that I don’t care about language, violence, or similar objectionable content in blogs I read, but I’m against sexual content. Couldn’t we have a ratings system that accounts for that? I think the overly general ratings will end up like the MPAA rating have — OVERLY GENERAL. I know I always have to read reviews of movies before I go see them, since the ratings really tell me absolutely NOTHING. There are some R-rated movies I love and have no objection to, and there are some PG movies I think are innapropriate. Please consider a more dynamic rating system.

    Thanks for your commitment to keep Xanga safe…maybe now we can convince the parents and ISPs that it’s not the same at myspace!

  • I think it’s stupid and pointless.

    Twelve-year-olds are still sneaking into R-rated movies, and they’re still stashing porn under their beds. What makes you think your system will work any better?

  • That’s pretty badass. xD

  • Since I often read posts at work, I think I like this. It certainly seems as though it might keep me from accidently dropping in on not-work-safe sites.

  • This feels a little better than the flagging system. At least we have a voice in what we do and aren’t as censored. The kids can be kept out and the people who are mature enough to read our content can. I agree with this system–this is much better.

  • it’s about time good job can’t wait to see how it works!

  • I like this better – I didn’t think the flagging system was too great. Especially for people who have xanga’s that are predomitaly focused on recovering from stubstance abuse, eating disorders, sexual abuse, etc. etc.

  • It’s a FANTASTIC idea!

  • wow… that’s really… complicated! I can’t stress enough how much I appreciate the work this company does to make Xanga better and better :) I think this is a great system, but Xanga’s starting to become extremely complex. Sometimes all these options aren’t so great, but it does bring you one step closer to pleasing everyone.

  • interesting

  • sounds like a good idea. I mean, no one likes to be sensored, but now there’s warning. At least we can tell others what’s up.

    But, I think with flags, if there is something that is outright appropriate (the death threats, porn, and other illegal or severly ludicrous things) that flags should be used. People can be sick and I think the users and staff should be protected against/made aware of extreme situations.

  • this is really cool

    and what moniet said above

  • your secutirty is becoming way better and thanks for the footprints some missouri and california freaks are reading my site

  • security*

  • You should be able to use the flags because, sadly, some people abuse any type of rating system.  This will work well if you have users that want to stay away from content that is age inappropriate or if they just don’t want to see it, but if a sexual predator was using xanga to seduce kids, they would lie and say their page was appropriate for all ages, not that kids should be browsing xanga anyhow.  I say since I am a fairly mature fourteen I should be able to judge for myself what is appropriate.  I think you should keep only some of the flags, the ones that specify content that is illegal, not merely offensive.   

  • when will this system become available?

  • love the idea. i cannot wait.

  • Excellent idea ….I will be sure to use it with my post !

  • Not a bad idea..

    Me like.

    <333

    -Linn

  • That’s neat! I hope it works for those who don’t want to see certain things. Seeing as you guys are so busy you could probably use some help or just a little less pressure on you. What you’re doing may not be my cup o’ tea, but i’m really into graphics. Come to think of it, I could be creating graphics for this very site one day. As soon as I’m done with college though (not to forget out of highschool also).

    Later,

    ~I am called many things~

    ~You can call me the Zepinator~

  • Censorship is the first step towards ignorance

  • makes sense.

  • Ridiculous.

  • Hm… Overkill, in my opinion.

    First off, I think they’re too specific. The ratings system should have three levels, at most. An appropriate for all ages, some material may be inappropriate, and inappropriate. Even when based on the movie system… G and PG are basically the same thing, whereas R and NC-17 both have restrictions at 17. So there’s basically three echelons. Secondly, age verification sucks on the internet. There’s just gonna be a lot of lying and uncertainty. Third, cross-rating will lead to the Salem Witch Trials on Xanga. Some people who get pleasure out of runing things for people will just go through and rate everyone they see as EX.

    People should be able to judge for themselves what’s appropriate and what’s not.. but I’ll admit some security is needed. Nice thoughts but I just don’t think it would pan out very well.

  • Oh wow. That’s awesome ^__^

  • That’s great – a whole lot less scary than the flags.

  • and i thought i hated flags…..

  • I think that’s a great idea.

    9999999999999999999999999999 eprops if I could give that many.

  • hm.. cool…

  • whoo cool

  • I like it. =]

  • GOOD VERY NICE INDEED I GUESS WHAT AM I TALKIN BOUT LOL

  • why can’t I find where to cancel my premium account huh?
    I think the new flagging “ratings” seems like a better plan, by the way.

  • I’m absolutely for the ratings system. That would be great.

  • nevermind that question.

  • I didn’t like the majority of the flags because, yes, they felt way too much like censorship, but I do like the idea of ratings.

  • i dont like the regulation either, but this is much better than flags.  good job.

  • hmmm. could be good, but also could just be a hassle.

  • umm what did i do?

  • ummm we made a xanga http://www.xanga.com/wolverines_paintball and we have put a layout on there and then we got locked out is there any way that u can take the layout off and so we can get back in? please and thank yew!!!

  • Hi hhow are u eveni dont know who im talking 2. well you can write me n e time .

  • I love it!  It lets adults be adults, and kids don’t have to see that stuff.

  • I dont think it matters, if someones young and wants to see something they shouldnt, they’d find a way.

  • Some people are talking about holes in the ratings system… there’s one that’s hard to get around.  Not signed in users.  All a minor (young person) would have to do is not sign in… unless you make all your rated posts unavailable to those who aren’t signed in.. and that would piss a lot of people off.

  • Ahh.  I like this.

  • better

  • hey you!

    ok on the new and updated profile thing what is a nudge and how can you use it?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

  • fuck xanga

  • I love it!  It lets adults be adults, and kids don’t have to see that stuff.

  • I think this is a good idea.

  • Great idea! Btw..this post rated:

    Keep up the awesome work…us little people of the xanga kingdom appreciate all you do.

  • i think it’s pretty cool. i mean…now u can see what’s gonna be on someone’s site..without it just poping up in ur face.

  • Looks good.

  • i like it =] hahaha

  • to tell you the truth, i think xanga’s getting a little too complicated….

  • Awesome idea!

  • Like someone up there said, it’s regulation. If we are going to regulate everything on xanga, then what’s the point of having a site on here? Anytime that I post anything for mature audiences, I post it protected. This keeps the teeny boppers and kids out. If you want to make things safer, why don’t you give the free xanga users the option of having more than ten people on their protected list. If you can add picture totals for free users, why not an increased protected list? Surely it won’t eat up any more bandwidth than the whole pic thing does. Not that I care, as I PAY for my xanga, but not everyone can afford it.

    As for the people who are posting illegal material, well, go get em, we don’t need those types of sick bastards polluting the place anyway. Freedom of speech is a fine thing, but it doesn’t give you the right to yell ‘fire’ in a crowded movie theatre, to use a classic example. Sometimes I wonder if people even understand the difference between freedom of speech and illegal activity.  

  • why not spend your time creating something new and exciting for xanga users, rather then a stupid rating system that no one will care about?

  • this sounds awesome

  • I think I like the idea. And I agree with moniet. I want to know how to keep certain people off my site.

  • awsomeness!

  • i like it

  • personally i think it sounds cool but most likely wont work

  • good. now can you tell me why a site I have reported twice and flagged is still in existense?

  • that’s gay. the fact that something’s rated EX will make youngins want to read it more. let’s be smart now.

  • KUDOS KUDOS KUDOS KUDOS KUDOS

    thank you xanga, this is perfect.

    now no one needs to be censored, and you can keep the parents and media happy……..

    good job!

    (myspace has nothing on you guys)

    ~~~megan

  • cool. i guess.

  • It’s great, depending on what your dealing with

  • The age restriction will be near  impossible to enforce, also the rating systems for games and videos do not work that well, they are too inconsistent. I don’t care much, i like the flagging though.

  • I know you’re trying to improve Xanga and at the same time protect Xanga and its users, but the ratings system is going to have to be very clearly defined and explained.

    Will the ratings be for the entire site or will we be able to rate each post individually? I’m thinking that you’re just gonna have it for the entire blog, not each individual post.

    Gee! I can hardly wait. Makes me want to go upload a picture of a boob right now. So, what would a picture of a naked breast be? level C? How about using “the F word”? Is that a B or a C? I think I’ve a good idea what fits in the explicit area.

    Hopefully increased complexity will not drive some members away. It probably is a good idea to implement it, or simply have an adult area and a not adult area.

    We’re all still waiting for an easy link to head to our photoblogs too ya know, instead of having to manually type in the photos where the www would be in address.

  • sounds dumb

  • When will the Xanga SafeBrowing start to work?

    I think it’s a good idea!

  • After whats happened on MySpace I think you are doing everything in your power to protect our children from child molesters who populate the pages of these blogs like demons. Good job Xanga!!!! Kudo’s for your child abuse awareness……………………..

  • awesome. awesome awesome. that is an awesome idea with the ratings

  • The only problem I have is that I can’t verify that I am 18 to view some of my friends sites b/c I don’t have a credit card, but I do think that it is a good idea.

  • You are Gods!  This is much better than the flags!

  • I dont get it =/

  • very cool.

    now when are we going to be able to search posts?

  • Very nice! It’s a great idea and I’m really happy that you guys are doing this.

  • I love that idea.

  • That’s good though… too bad our basic freedoms are being damaged by some losers…

  • bloody brilliant! cheerio, mate!

  • erm… but maybe the A rating should be blue… to get rid of confusion.

  • I’m thankful that you guys are trying to keep xanga a clean community and hope you guys won’t cave in to the wackos who are screaming freedom of speech at you. This is a great addition. You all rock!

  • This is THE fastest changing system online I’ve seen.  Within a month you say, “We’re doing flags.”

    Then you say, “Okay we’re evaluating flags…and working on them to make ‘em better.”

    Then, you come up with an idea, and actually go out and do it…without all the hand wringing, and worrying, and himing and hawing about it!

    Way to go!!!!  Keep up the great work!  I think you have a good understanding of how people think, and what can help.

    Good job, and keep it up!

    …it’s the kind of thing that makes one think…hmmm?…if my kids were on here with safe settings, mmm..maybe premium would be a really good thing?…

  • I think this new flagging (for illegal stuff) and rating system is so much better thought out. And I’d have no problem self-rating my own site as EX (Explicit) just to limit the underage exposure to potentially adult topics, whether or not they exist. Thanks!

  • wonder how long it will take me to crack it…   :)

  • interesting.

  • I have a question. Maybe you can point me in the right direction. There is a young woman attempting to control what I put on my xanga. I have a picture of my friends kid on there and my friend is the father she is the mother. she is harrasing me to take them off however it is my site and I did have permission from my friend the father to put them on there. They have been there for nearly half a year. Neways, what I have done is blocked her from harrasing me and I have made those entries private. I do have the constitutional right to post these pictures. There is nothing wrong with them They are pictures of my friend and his son.

  • From one of the “wackos”: Have most of you forgot where you live? In a “free” society, with the exception of illegal activity. I don’t know this whole country anymore. Freedom has went right out the window. And now xanga has got in on the act of censoring.

    Sure, there are some trashy sites out there. But it’s up to parents to keep children off them, not the new xanga police. I don’t want other people telling me what I can and cannot put on my own site, especially a site I’ve paid money for.

    If I go to a site and something objectional “jumps out at me” as some of you have mentioned, I know not to go back to that site again. And I seriously doubt that it’s going to damage me. Half this country wants to live in a vacuum anymore and hide from the world. You’re who you are, briefly viewing an objectional site is not going to change that. What are you afraid of?

    And allowing others to rate your site? How unfair is that? I didn’t join xanga so others could rate MY site. And before you jump to conclusions and think I’m taking up for freedom to blog as you see fit because I have a trashy site, you’re wrong. I’ve never even said a curse word on my site as far as I can remember. I just still believe in the Constitution.

  • yeah. cool.

  • I was watching Fox 11 News yesterday night after American Idol…and they were doing a special report on a community website where its users are posting up wayyy too much porn contents and online sex…N me and my girls were like “Yeah yeah..here we go again..another goddamn report about myspace”..but as it turned out…Fox news was talking about xanga o_O

     I’m glad that you guys are taking steps into censoring explicit contents to keep minors safe..it’ll keep the parents and the media from bitching..=] Kudos to the xanga team!!

  • i think it’s one of those unnecessary things.  like anything else, xanga.com is an “at-your-own-risk” type thing.  it’s their choice whether they want to sign up and act a fool.  it’s just plain stupid, like laws making you wear your seatbelt.  if you don’t do what’s right, it’s your own fault.  don’t make me pay for your own stupidity.  let’s just let natural selection take its course shall we :)

    p.s. i’d love to hear a comment from one of the xanga staff.  don’t know why, i guess it’d be cool.  besides, what’s there to do all day huh?

  • personally, i think its a great idea. keeps little wondering eyes safe..unless you know they feel like chancing it then BAM..okay yeah..i dont like this site..and then they get in trouble with mommy and daddy when the go back through their internet history..tee hee hee..learn to delete it kids..

  • this is long and needed. its a great idea

  • I like it! It keeps those of us who aren’t kids but who would still prefer not to see naked pictures while browsing through xanga from stumbling across stuff we’d rather not see!

  • I happen to notice that half of the users on xanga think that your censorship is dumb. Did they not read the news and hear about that 38 year old pizza delivery man who was finally arrested for contacting 14 year old girls on MYSPACE so he can meet them up and have sex with them? Pathetic asss child molestersss these days are so sad ahahahahahaha.

    You guys are taking a big step to prevent unnecessary rape and child molestation acts from happening and I applaud your team for that :]

  • i don’t really like this new rating system. i thought that the “flagging” system was pretty simple, but effective.

  • I absolutley love this idea!

  • Xanga was mentioned on Fox News (I think it was Hannity/Colmes or O’Reily – I heard it from another room) a couple of nights ago as a new place for pedophiles to hang out in addition to myspace. I was shocked! Not Xanga!

    So this is very good timing to show everyone that Xanga is NOT a place for those people.

  • XANGA continues to PWN MYSPACE…

    TAKE THAT TOM!!!

    :]

  • If we don’t have the ‘no xangans allowed’ setting turned on, will rating your journal anything over ‘b’ cause people to be blocked from viewing?

  • Cool~~

  • Not bad, as long as people cooperate when rating, and others don’t lie about their ages.

  • I’m not sure. I would need to know more and see how it works.

  • much better than flagging

  • shweet.

  • This may be useful.

    That doesn’t mean I agree with it.

    The ideas of “young children” and “children” are objective. In my opinion, you are no longer a child once you’ve reached the age of 13. You’re then a teenager, or a youth. Also, as has been said before, these ratings are pointless, as they will do nothing to stop someone from changing their age setting.

    Another thing. Why can an 18 year old freely view any content, but not a 16 year old? Neither can drink, and both are legally permitted to have sexual intercourse. In Canada, a 14 year old can legally have sexual intercourse. Why can a person who is allowed to HAVE sexual intercourse not view material which is sexually explicit?

    It would be more effective to let us have free speech, let us view others’ speech, and to use flags for only illegal content. Death threats? Flag ‘em. Child porn? Flag ‘em. Copyright infringement? Flag ‘em. But leave the legal material alone.

  • from what i last remembered, a 16 year old is not legally permitted. Maybe in canada, but not the u.s. and isn’t it like you must respect the law with the stricter standards, because all laws under it will not be contradictory.

    i don’t know, I just questioned the comment

  • man that is so dumb

  • Wow, I really don’t like the way people have to enter their credit card information if I choose “discretion required” in order to verify their age.  Not to mention that when you enter the information it isn’t over a secure connection.  Can something be done about this?  Maybe a DL number?

  • That’s a brilliant idea. I’m so sick and tired of visiting people’s xanga’s and getting bombarded with pictures of girls rooting eachother. ><

  • Oh!! Wait, although it’s a good idea, you should really re-word it from ‘children’ to ‘Mature audiences’ or something. In my my, children is a 6 year old, while in others it’s a 15 year old. So the word Child and Childre arn’t really sutible. I’m going to be really happy when I stop getting dumbass comments from people saying things like “That is offensive” and “That is not sutible”

  • Hey man what’s up?! I was wondering if you could answer a question for me… There is someone who made a site containing MY picture and entries disrespecting my name and offending me on levels I haven’t began to see. Is the flagging system good enough to ban them from ever using Xanga again? Isn’t there a way someone could block out the IP Address of the computer user…? Sir, if there is anything you can do to help me out please contact me as soon as possible. I am very offended by this recent act of cruelty, and shame on my name and face. Thank you! The user name is starchdolph in case you needed to know. Thanks again for your time.

    Sincerely,

    Rob

  • Love it!
    Bring it on!

  • its a nice idea but maybe some more “xangier” names are needed for each type of rating instead of the old basic ones…just a thought

  • Ratings = Good
    Restrictions = Bad

    I mean, like “Halo 2″ is rated M and thats for like 18 and up, but theres this pro H2 gamer thats like 9 years old…

    Some people are mature over their age, some are way under.

    Can we also turn this thing off?

  • good idea.

    but how exactly would you get it to work?

  • I do not like AT ALL that I have to enter in my credit card information. The rating system would be FINE if it were not for that.

    I might just stop using xanga if that is how it’s going to be.

  • Very cool.  So how do we go about rating ourselves and other people?

  • good stuff

  • I don’t knowwww….when I first saw it, I was like.. errrrr? Kinda pointless. I mean yea, it’ll warn people etcetc. But eh. I agree with junshien. Haha havn’t read the other kid’s comments..but yea, I agree with him. Do two instead of like 3546543464 ones.

  • i wasn’t too keen on the whole flagging idea and i’m glad you guys are refocusing the program. i do believe in reporting those illegal blogs though. i like the little rating thing, it’s CUTE. will we have a choice of having the icon on our site and placing it where we would like? it will completely change the structure, but it’s really cute. :) i think i’ll use one now.

  • can you tell joel i miss him?

  • This is a much better idea

  • sounds good.

  • I like it.
    Much better than the flag system.

  • oh xanga people, you’re just too smart and on top of the game.

  • This is better.  Less like censorship and more like common sense.  I’m very glad to see that xanga is continuing to listen to its users and trying to improve every day.  kudos to the gang.

  • I believe more in the ‘back’ button than outright censoring. I don’t believe in a Nanny Xanga.

  • Yeah… I’m not so sure this is such a great idea…

  • Ratings make a lot more sense than flags, and I’m glad to see them in the works. I still don’t understand why flags were implemented in the first place, as they give the place a very insecure feeling–not knowing who will flag you when, or wondering if your site will be there the next day just ain’t good for business. (I’m aware that they never worked that way, but most people react before they read or even think.) However, the points about child porn and death threats are certainly valid. The other flagable offenses don’t make sense to me from a marketing standpoint, but I’ve said that before.

    Ratings are a nice idea. I look forward to them.

  • I’m like the 500th comment, so I doubt this will get seen, but I have a question: I’m 20 years old,  but I can’t verify my age to see all ratings because I don’t have a credit card. Solution?

  • pretty cool. still waiting on nonxangans to be able to leave comments though! am i waiting in vain, or is this something that is in the works or at least on the to-do list?

  • na naa na naaaaa na

  • ^_^what is this?

  • I think the flags and the rating system is just weird. But, do as you please, its your web space.

  • Excellent idea – I don’t know about the whole parents approval thing (how the heck do you enforce that?) but otherwise a wise move. So does that mean that porn, cutting, etc will all now be allowed under the new flagging system, but will just be “rated”? Just a question -

    GOOD IDEA!

  • that’s pretty cool

    hehe

    great idea! Xanga rocks

  • i like the concept but every1 ‘ll porubably say they were born in like 1950 just so they can ignore the rateings, so restricting poepel won’t eally work…… but you could still warn poeple aobut the content.

  • people r just gona lie ’bout there age. but it could still warn people, so if they don’t want to look at bad stuff they won’t accidenetly.

  • whether you call it flags, or ratings, or whatever, it will have to be applied on the finest possible level—that of individual posts—in order to properly balance community and individual interests.

  • very clever. id use it!

  • So does that mean every entry needs to have a rating attached to it?  Generally speaking, I’m a G or a the very most PG but who knows I might feel the need to have a little fun.

  • Sounds alot like what Digg does with their stories.

  • it’s a pretty good idea!

  • this flag system is nothing …..

    y dun u guys fix the Errorsafe problem first ?!

  • cool=]]]

  • someone up above mentioned the issue that there are lots of people without credit cards, and there are even more of us unwilling to provide our credit card info for age validation.

    I don’t know the basis of the concerns, but I sure hope xanga doesn’t go the route of requiring a credit card number to use the service. That would be a sure fire way to kill it off.

  • Yes, protect innocent eyes.

  • Isn’t it a shame that there are idigits out there that make this kind of thing necessary?! They take something intended for fun for all and turn it into their own hateful &/or dirty play ground. Sad sad!

    As a parent, I thank you for your efforts to keep it clean. One suggestion, allow xanga-ites to preview their comments before they are actually posted to their sites. I have had a couple that would never have been allowed on my site in the first place. Yes I deleted them, but not before someone saw them.

    Thanks again for all your hard work.

  • Great!!! :)

  • certainly add on da spice.. at least ya can be prepared for da contents whilst browsing thru.. thumbs up Xanga!

  • love the idea

  • cooly…me likey that….nice work!

  • I like the ratings systems, they are fair to me.

  • That’s a good idea :P

  • Much better! Good job guys

  • Xanga MPAA looks rawrsomely wicked. I like it <3

  • you have done it yet again xanga, is there anything you havent thought of!! Thanks x

  • Would there be a system in place to have parental controls or a password to allow access?

  • this girl needs to be taken off of Xanga.  she is disgusting.  I was just browsing Xanga and came upon her page.  I’ve noted Xanga about her page before…but she is still on.  Is this legal?  http://www.xanga.com/tired_of_normal_sex

    Please do something about this page.  She also has alot of disgusting friends.

  • way to go, it’s always nice that the xanga gods, listen to the concerns of us xanga mortals. :)

  • I love the idea, but I cannot verify my age with my credit card… it says it isn’t valid, but I have it right here in front of me.

  • Seems like a decent idea. Category B is redundant though, since you can’t even be a xanga member unless you are 13.

  • works for me!

  • I really like the flagging system enough as it is.

    But now you made it better?

    Sweet!

    The ratings system is cool, but will that limit me being able to view some of my ruder friends sites?

    That would be pretty bad for me.

    Otherwise it is excellent.

  • hey i think this idea is wonderful… it really cracks down on all the stuff with the kids these days and all the stuff on the news. Great Work!!!

  • ok listen u anal idiot

    that is not a good idea bc someone could effing say there sit is explicit and then someone who has safebrowse on could not go to it even if its not explecit

    comment back

    chris

  • Great idea.
    But as mentioned above, verification could be tricky and getting people to comply might be as well.

  • Very witty system, and I suppose it shall be a very competent one. Yay Xanga!

  • very good idea. Hopefully it pans out

  • Personally, I’m not sure whether I’m for it, or against it. It seems a little excessive. It is kind of funny, though. I’ve seen people making their own warning labels for a long time now. I used to use the Parental Advisory logo that the record companies place on CD covers to warn people about my posts because I tend to use profanity sometimes. This “rating system” would eliminate the need to do things like that, but then again that completely takes away from people’s originality/creativity.

    I guess I’m saying this because I have a problem with most rating systems, including the MPAA’s. Plus, I don’t like censorship. You guys said you aren’t doing that, right?

  • thank you very much, i really appriciate all you do.  i like Xanga much better than Blogger or MySpace.  and i’m very excited about more control regarding viewing unwanted material!  please, at least try it out and see how it goes.  thank you SO much.  = ) 

  • ok, this is pissing me off. i’m 20 years old, and dont have a credit card. and i dont have to have to get one or use my parents’ card just to read a xanga. i get that this is, in a way, good if you’re worried about thirteen year olds, but itt’s completely unfair to people like me. is there any way you can allow me to read all posts and xangas without having to deal with this crap?

  • So, I’ve thought about this quite a bit, and I don’t like the system. I think it goes against what Xanga was when I first joined. Sure, it’s changed, but it’s just adding to what makes the service worse and less desirable. I really think you guys need to work on the other parts of the service before you start censoring…

  • Interesting considering you have a protected, private and public in which we can all post…
    Will this change as well to accommadate the new rating system?

  • really like the idea! good job!

  • If this is voluntary, then I have no problem wtih it.

    If this is involuntary, or those who don’t participate will have their sites effected negatively by search engines, then I consider this a form of imposed morality which is a subtle form of censorship, and it is something I would cancel my Xanga membership over.

  • I like the idea – am not sure what would be considered PG or who decides. For example – if someone talks about breeding animals it can be factual or could be pornographic – key words alone don’t pick up on content and tone.

    But I like the idea.

  • I haven’t read what everyone else thinks on this; but to voice my opinion…I think it is great to allow the person who owns the blog to rate their site. However, I do not like the cross rating of someone elses blog. That just seems like trouble to me. I know people can find there way around things though and read it anyway no matter what the rating. Unless there was age verification added to the site; which really that too probably can be gotten around. I don’t know. It would have to be something like Ebay, lol.

  • 1. For people complaining that the rating system is censorship – that’s not censorship. Censorship is what the terms and conditions for using Xanga imposes. The terms state a variety of things that are off limits.

    2. Ratings by themselves do not prevent you from writing what you want. So the writers are not being censored. And depending on what xanga implements, the new software may or may not be censorship from the reader side of things. If the software prevents someone from reading a page unless they somehow prove their age, then that too is censorship – probably something unavoidable, from a legal point of view, but whatever. However, if it is more like the V-chip, where the writer establishes the rating of their writing, and the viewer decides what s/he wishes to read, or not read, then that’s not censorship for either side. That’s people being given tools. Those types of tools wouldn’t prevent anyone who wants to read the material from reading it.

    If someone thinks that they have the right to say whatever they want to whomever they want whenever they want, they have quite a different view of the world than most people. The world is not an anarchy (no matter how much it appears to be …)

  • This is complete crap. All you’re doing is strangling us with censorship!

  • Okay, I just came back and see you will be adding age restrictions and verification as well. I think that is a good idea. When I mentioned like Ebay, I like the fact that you sign up once and the system has it where you cannot then try to sign up again; it will say you all ready are. It also keeps the address on file; so that will be good in case of pervs or what not.

  • Makes much better sense to me!!!

  • that so hot.

  • Yes

  • This is much better than the original flagging system.
    Good job guys.

  • so fuckin tell me wen a damn kid gets on xanga do u really fuckin think dey gunna watch the fuckin kid god damn errythin is being rated soon u fags r gunna bleep out tha fuckin cuss words like little bitches

  • so , why there is no admins and no persons concern about the “Errorsafe Problem” ?

    why there’s no one talk about it here ?

    this is so hateful that i would like to turn to yahoo’s blog if admins still do not concern about it

  • I likey very much, =)

  • up till now , I do not get any benefit from the flagging system ….

    at least , many offenced sites are still appearing in xanga …
    but that’s okay …. i am not going to hurt by these site ….

    I (and many of my friends) have been annoyed and troubbled by that “Errorsafe” !

  • I saw the new ratings option, and I understand the motivation for age verification for a “EX” rated site, but I don’t like the idea of having to supply a credit card to verify that I’m 18.  Like many people with Xanga sites, I’ve tried very hard to protect my privacy.  As nice as a community as Xanga is, there are too many crazy people out there and it’s better to be safe than sorry.  Having to give Xanga my credit card info makes me VERY uncomfortable.  How can I be assured of what they’ll do with it.  Isn’t there some other way Xanga can satisfy their age verification concerns without compromises one’s privacy?

  • Plus, the web page you have set up to ask for credit card information is NOT a secure page.  How can you expect people to even consider submitting their credit card information, especially if it’s over a nonsecure site…

  • as a parent, I really appreciate this. I think its a good idea. The people who bitch about it will probably be people without kids. I never joined My Space because I really did not feel good about the whole structure of it. I think that the steps that ya’ll are taking in so many directions are great for both creativity and the benefit and well-being of people participating in the xanga blogging experience. I am going to start using the photoblog feature soon. My entire family has xangas, from my 11 year old son to my 85 year old mom. This will continue to make it an experience that everyone is comfortable with, and that will allow people to maintain freedom of expression, while not offending some people’s comfort zones. It will also protect children, which is of paramount importance.

    thanks a bunch to the xanga staff. if you ever need a good graphic design artist for anything, email me!

  • This whole idea is nothing more than a preemptive effort by Xanga to gain the ability to defend itself when another media blitz about child predators comes around. It’s absolutely disgusting that there are people out there who do such things, I’m not arguing that at all. But what is this really going to do? By lying about their age, not signing into Xanga or by some other means of finding a loophole, kids will find inappropriate sites on here. By giving it a label, you’re making it easier to find those “adult only” sites.

    99 out of 100 times that I see anything on the news about child predators, the parents had no idea what exactly their kids were involved in on the internet. It’s always “Well I knew she had a Xanga or a My Space, but I wasn’t aware of all the information she puts on there”. We live in a society where parents are left with no accountability in what their children are doing. We blame teachers for poor grades, we blame our child’s friends for our child’s bad behavior, and we blame television and video games (and now websites like Xanga) for “destroying our kids’ morals and values”. If you are mature and responsible enough to possibly have a child, be responsible enough to act like a damn responsible parent! It’s not hard to be involved in your child’s life. Stop using the TV, the XBox and the internet to babysit your kid while you go and do whatever YOU want to do.

    This whole rating system isn’t going to really solve anything. It’s just a nice little way for Xanga to make it look like they are solving the issue. Quite frankly, with today’s society of blaming everyone but themselves, I don’t blame them. But other than that, it’s really pointless.

  • I love everything you’ve been doing lately!  Keep up the good work.  However…since some of these cahnges have been made, I’ve noticed my “Blocked User” function is no longer functioning.  This has posed a few minor problems for me.  I have even gone in and re-entered the information for users I want to block, but to no avail.  They are still accessing my page.

  • hey how do i turn of xanga lock.. i would appreciate the help i cant find it..

  • I found a site with PoRnO

    http://www.xanga.com/Runescape__k

  • http://www.xanga.com/runescape___k

  • Well said, trackside tribefan!

  • Sounds gewd to me!

  • it’s an awesome idea. i think we’ll all benefit from it

  • Big thumbs down on the rating system.

  • Hmm… the flag system seemed to warn, whereas the rating system merely seems to inform. With a rating, it’s more like ‘you may not like the following posting. There may be cussing, descriptive sexual content, etc.’ With a flag, I get the impression that the following posting is malicious, inappopriate, crude, and so on. I guess it seems like the flagging system had more flagging reasons.

    Example: I recently flagged someone who uses his blog solely to write harassing, crude, and mostly untrue things about me while pretending to *be* me. On the ratings system, what would that get? The rating system helps accurately warn of offensive material, but it doesn’t indicate the maliciousness level of a blog. (I don’t feel like I’m really explaining myself very well, but I hope my point is somewhat getting across…)

  • this sucks. I am 18 so why is it not letting me access other sites?

  • Hey John. I’m 37 years old and I’m being blocked from looking at sites. Can you tell me how to get myself unlocked so I can view ALL content?

    Michelle

  • where do you rate people though? has this rolled out yet?

  • I think this system is great, and MUCH better and less censored than the flagging. Child porn and death threats NEED to be stop, but some of the flagging was too much (in my humble opinion, of course).

    Thanks xanga for making this the best site ever!

  • I hate it. I do not want to give you my credit card number to be able to rate my site or go to friends sites. I have been premium for years you have my paypal subscription.  So you know that I am over 13. This Sucks, Judi Singleton

  • how do i verify my age without a credit card? i only ask cause i want to make my page available only to persons over 18 but then i can’t even access it without a credit card. all i have is a debit card and it doesn’t work on your site. any suggestions?

  • i like this cuz i’m uncomfortable having minors subscribing & lookin’ at my site. is this feature available now?

  • The ratings system would be a wonderful idea.

  • BUT, are your servers secure for the cc numbers that have to be given when the site is rated explicit?

  • if a person has premium, they should be exempt from this rating..expecially if they keep their site under protected mode…

  • good idea

  • How do I get rid of someone who keeps harrasing me?

  • cool

  • i don’t see why not

  • First let me say I know what a tough job you have trying to please everyone. If you do one thing to please a certain group, you’re going to upset the other group. I don’t envy your job.

    Now, my view on all this: I think this turns xanga into a censership and regulated site. I’ve never had anything x rated on my site that I’m aware of, and I don’t like x rated sites. But just like with the tv, if something offends me I change the channel. It’s something that is no big deal and takes little effort on my part. I’m a Christian and try to live by certain guidelines, but that doesn’t mean everyone is or wants to be, and I don’t think it’s my job to tell other people how to live their lives or what to think or say.

    The child porn or threat sites are a different story. They are wrong by anyone’s standards, or at least I would think so. Simple enough to report these sites. The rest of them..it’s their business what they want to put up. It’s their site. If it offends you, don’t ever go back. I know there’s a lot of trash on the internet in general. But I may think my site is tame, and someone else may think it’s not. People have different opinions as to what is tame and what is not.

    To sum it up, xanga is supposed to be a place for people to write their thoughts and no one is forced to read them. If the internet and blogging sites are going to be regulated then we all may as well start writing in our old fashioned diaries again…on paper.

    One more thing..when my children were home I paid attention as best I could as to what they were watching and reading. That’s a parent’s job. And if something slipped by me I didn’t want them to see or read, I really don’t think it damaged them for life. And a parent can put a password into their computer and block certain kinds of sites from their children. I did.

    If this is all voluntary, that’s fine. But if it’s mandatory, this is not good.

    Exactly.

  • nice.

  • Sounds like the Terrorist alert system to me. I think you might be wasting your time with it.

  • I think that is a wonderful idea…. i cant wait

    sincerely

    Stephanie

  • Thats Awsome John Keep Xanga Having more Cool Stuff!!!!
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    ~Mizuho

  • MUCH better!!!  I feel as if perhpas even my two cents of an opinon actually mattered, and helped this new shift in ideas.  This is by far something I can stand behind, since we won’t be censored, or tracked, or “punished”…but rather, we can be rated.  That’s a good thing, thanks!

  • Score one: I seriously doubt I’d ever get anything beyond a B… And that would be if I posted something so gratuitously violent as “An Anatomy of the Pancreas: With Full Color Illustrations”.

    Score two: If I want to avoid accidental viewing of inappropriate materials, I don’t have to rely on the alt-F4 method.

    Problem one: Six-year-olds claiming to be 62. Need I explain?

    Problem two: Parents who rely on this feature to safeguard their children from all harm, instead of spending time raising their children in a nurturing relationship.

  • This is better than the flagging.

  • Ridiculous. The Flagging was fine. The Ratings won’t be followed at all. I think we should go back to Flagging instead. I’d also like a feature where you could report an entire blogring, since a lot of harmful sites have certain layouts that don’t support the “flag” button.

  • Well I just now encountered a site (one of my subscribers) that was rated Discretion required and found out I have to give a credit card number to be able to access it (which I really don’t want to give out — even if it says I won’t be billed).

    I’ve been xanga’ing for nearly 4 years, I have a lifetime premium on this site and a year’s premium on my other site… and I understand the CYA concept you guys are operating under… but REALLY. You must already KNOW I’m over 18!

    This is going to put off a lot of people when they find out about all the hoops you’ve got to go through just to read certain sites that have decided they’re above a PG-13 rating.

  • Hm. Really, I hate all these new settings and stuff.

  • Hey people…if you don’t like the site ratings, RATE YOUR SITE “A” AND DON’T BOTHER WITH THEM!

  • I’m not so sure I like this idea. Many kids (10 and under) prefer to look at porn cause their parents might.

    Besides, if they see a site that says “Adults Only”, then they DEFFENTLY will go there?! ‘

    Question: Is this about swearing? Because 75% of all TV Shows for kids around the globe have swears in it. Not only this, but many children start swearing at the age of 9 (or 4th/5th grade), and if it is blocking swearing, I think that doesn’t really matter

    Question 2: Is this about words like “gay” or “lesbian”? Because I am a current Junior High Student. Our School Textbooks HAD THE WORD “gay” in it because there was a boy loving his MALE dog. Therefore, if you think kids do NOT have the accxes to words like “gay” or “lesbian”, I would reccomend you reconsider. 60% of all TV shows say those words, and “The Simpsons” or “Family Guy” is very popular among students 10 and older these days.

    Overall, I think this is an UNNESISARY choice. Kids 10 and older view PORN, SWEARS, and INAPROPRATE LANGUAGE (gay/lesbian, etc.) VERY OFTEN! THIS iS NOT THE BEST IDEA! MANY CHILDREN AROUND AMERICA, NOT EVEn THE glOBE, HAVE PICKEd UP PORN, SWEARING, OR bAd LANGUaGE!!!!

    ~OrangeJuice94

    PS: Did you know there are tons of magazines, newspapers, and other reading materials that use the words gay/lesbian OR have PORN in them?

  • What a horrible idea. I do NOT want to give out my personal information to prove that I am “mature” enough to be looking at a certain site. I really, REALLY do not agree with all of these new policies.

  • I still think it will be abused…both the rating system and flagging system are good in theory–but then again, so was the Marxist society.

  • I don’t believe what I’m reading.  Not only have you come up with a system that is beyond abhorrent, beyond useless, but I’m also reading that various Xangans I respect think that this is a reasonable idea.

    Jeeves777 is one of the few commenters who has a reaction anywhere near what mine is.  Kids are going to find porn no matter what you do, the predators are going to find their victims, no matter what you do, and kids are going to lie about their ages and people are going to (intentionally or not) misrate their own sites, no matter what you do.

    So exactly what good do you think you are going to accomplish with this nonsense?

  • Whether all of you realize it or not, you are already being filtered as to what sites you can see. Go to your “account info” –> “safebrowse”. The default your account is already set on is “filter content above C – Caution”. Now check the box that tells the system to not filter any content for you, and you will get asked for your credit card information to verify your age. Never mind that xanga already has my info for automatic renewal, I’m still required to give it again, AND on a non-secure page.

    I have no desire to view a racy site, but that is MY decision, not xanga’s or anyone else’s here. I did not ask them to filter sites for me and I don’t appreciate it. As I said earlier, this is a mandatory thing and xanga has lost it’s appeal for me now because I’m 50 years old and having sites filtered FOR me all because I don’t want to give my credit card number. For those of you who would want xanga to filter for you, that’s fine. But I didn’t ask for it.

  • ugh, this really makes no sence. people can lie you know. so its useless.

  • Oh, I like it!!

  • this sounds great, but if i chose to participate and a xangan with a nasty rating was on my site i wouldn’t be able to check them out.

    “BTW: I am eagerly awaiting some way to keep unwanted users off my site, too!”
    Posted 5/24/2006 at 7:34 PM by moniet

    i couldn’t agree more! i think that would almost make the xanga security setup perfect.

  • Oh wait – I’ve read a lot more comments, and I think I’ve changed my mind….

  • but some people don’t have a FLAG thing on their xanga and they hacked into mi cousin’s site!

  • Can you give some guidance in the FAQ about when a credit card is required to access the higher ratings? It only asks me for one to access “ex”, but others are saying it is asking them for “d”, too. Thanks.

  • um srry this isnt about this but what r footprints?

  • “Here’s how it’d work: you’d be able to self-rate your own content, and cross-rate each others’.”

    They never said anything about matching words or ANYTHING.

    It’s like Google image Search. Try it out. You set the level of content you want to see, and that way, if you are of the type that does not wish to see porn, you will not see it.

    “Can you give some guidance in the FAQ about when a credit card is required to access the higher ratings? It only asks me for one to access “ex”, but others are saying it is asking them for “d”, too. Thanks.”

    Read the SafeBrowse page. There’s “Filter content ABOVE D” (which is only EX) and then “Filter no content”, and the second is the one that says “requires verification”.

    “I have no desire to view a racy site, but that is MY decision, not xanga’s or anyone else’s here. I did not ask them to filter sites for me and I don’t appreciate it. As I said earlier, this is a mandatory thing and xanga has lost it’s appeal for me now because I’m 50 years old and having sites filtered FOR me all because I don’t want to give my credit card number. For those of you who would want xanga to filter for you, that’s fine. But I didn’t ask for it.”

    Go to any non-Xanga porn site. You have to be 18 there too. That’s hardly a new concept.

  • okay srry again but there is this guy whos lookin at my xanga and now hes tryin to contact me and its kinda scaring me

  • i think it is a good idea. Good luck with the system

  • If you tell a kid “Don’t do that”, what is the first thing they want to do? If sites are rated, say ‘d’ or ‘ex’, it is identified and made easy to determine the content. Would this not make it easy for our kids to find these type of sites? On the other hand, I greatly appreciate your endeavors to protect our children from harmful content…yes and even protect all of us. Keep hanging in there like peanut butter on the roof of your mouth! Praying that you find good tools in the safety arena.

  • Good…..always a good thing!!!

  • It’s ALWAYS a good idea to find ways to be safe. Practiciing safety measures is a huge part of our world view. There are people who will always try to get around the regulations, but that should not prevent us from trying to find ways to remain safe. What if our “Homeland Security Personnel” decided to stop persuing our national safety because of those who try to find the loop-holes? Disasterous! It may be difficult finding solutions, but keep looking for them; never give up. Again I appreciate your intent.

  • …hmm Why so much rating now? too much is a bad thing…

  • i really really supporting this feature, but does cross-rating really works? or they need to provide reason so that some little guys wont play wit this feature? but i know u guys will be very tired to read like 20000 reasons in one day if that really happens, i typed like a word “gay” in the blogring and i saw tons and tons of porn without any warning word or even a verify page[well they do provide above age porn but not underage]. also for the phrase[underage nudity], do u guys mentioned porn anime/ porn cartoons too? because i see people post their “hot” animes in the internet but we cannot determine wheater flag those “underage nudity ANIMES’ or not.

  • also for verifying by using credit card…well i can have a credit card verification if i were 13, u can just remember a whole bunch of numbers from ur mom/dad’s credit card and write that down, this verification works but not really works a lot. well why don’t they just find a playboy of themselves and not posting porns in this community?

  • Great idea, and yes, there are people who care what is on xanga! Just because it’s a blog site doesn’t mean everyone wants to see everything that people write about, to those who say “no one cares, it’s xanga.” Yes, some of us do care.

  • ok great

  • GREAT IDEA! We need that!

  • i think, if its a higher rating than what you’re used to seeing, that it should ask.. kind of like the quizzes on Quizilla.

    because, if someone wants to go on to a higher rating, and it wont allow it.. they might get annoyed.

    <3

  • http://www.xanga.com/greendaylover2468?nextdate=4%2f10%2f2006+22%3a58%3a6.060&direction=n

  • hey, i have a question kinda about footprints. well, whenever I check my footprints, I see “users” like California, Hong Kong, China, Texas, United Kingdom, and things like that. What is it, and how exactly are they visiting my site?

    ~~~~~@  Hilary

  • wow. why didn’t I think about that.

  • Pretty neat.

  • that’s cool with me as well… more power i guess

    peace!

  • Child porn and death threats are illegal in the United States, and since your site is governed by U.S. law, than your doing the best you can legally do. Congrats on this. If I wanted to threaten people, I’d do it in a less-trackable way, and who needs xanga for kiddie porn when you have google ;P

    On the other hand, who can and can’t say what is suitable for children? This is a morally subjective age we live in, and anybody is welcome to come to my site as long as they know where the back button is.

  • Ppsh, the ratings thing is just crap. Just another movement made by this oh so liberal society we live in. <_<

  • Me likes!!!!!!

  • a lot better then the flagging!!

  • I truely like the ratings system except for the fact that you have to have a credit card to prove that you are 18…

  • great idea. put it in motion!

  • hey well yeah i think its a good ideal

    <3 sara elizabeth

  • that’s absoutely ridiculous.

    i actaully HAVE my parent’s permission to browse ALL sites on xanga, and now i can’t, because of my age.

    there is NO way my mom is stupid enough to give you guys her credit card info.

    that’s crazy.

    this is definitely the first step xanga has taken into it’s own grave.

  • very cool! is flagging anonymous? i know you have to be signed in to do it.

  • I’m 100% opposed as is clarified in my blog and would be happy to discuss this with anyone — caveat — seriously

  • good idea…

    but can we add some option of blocking someone from viewing our page.. when we block them from commenting??? =D

  • Sounds interesting to say the least.  When does this actually go into effect?

  • good idea, but not really useful .. i think :S

  • Do you people allow people such as phychaitrists, and shiz to print out EVERY copy of a person’s weblog entry’s and file them?

    Or are you even aware of it?

    My mother became extremly angry toward me a few months back, and told me she knew about my Xanga.
    She also told me she was aware of every single thing I had posted on here, and showed me a file with every entry printed out and the file labled, “Onitta’s Website.”
    (Onitta is my name, just so you know.)

    I honestly don’t care if my mother knows about my Xanga, MySpace and everything else I have on the Internet.
    It just pisses me off that you people that manage this site allow that, if you do, which I’m pretty sure you do allow.
    Considering the fact that the law most likely requires it.

    I watch the news.
    :]

    Which I’m guessing is why y’guys put the whole name search thing on here and shiz.
    I’ve been hearing and seeing a lot of bad poblicity about this site on the local news.
    Same with MySpace, but that’s worse, not to mention a completly different subject.

    I don’t mean to sound ignorant.
    I’m just curious to if you know about this.
    Or if you allow it.
    Whatever it is you people do, I just want to know.

    Thanks.

  • I like the idea but…

    What if someone under 18 was writing stuff that others consider to be R18?
    What would happen then?
    And how will someone’s age be verified?
    Also… I think that some restricted sites have information that minors would find useful, (I’m thinking along the lines of depression-related issues here),
    is it right to cut them off from this information because it is deemed “inappropriate” by other Xangaians?

  • are you in the Xanga team???? my music player is not working. is Xanga putting a code there to stop it from working???

  • There is no way I am putting in my credit card – whether you promise not to charge or whatever – So… Just hafta not go to those sites – cos I find it invasive to hafta put it in, and a bit insulting (I do understand why – but it irks me to hafta put it in to real a xanga site)  Ho Hum

  • honestly?
    def. not going to work.
    dont have time to fully explain.
    need to do something with the site. everyone i know is going to myspace which personally is better.
    xangas were fun, in 6th grade.
    yea im only in 9th grade but still, gettin old.
    either fix up the place or just lose everyone to Tom, Mr.Myspace.
    much love, peace
    later
    -amanda!!

  • p.s.
    myspace is totally kicking your ass!
    pg-13

  • i think its a goood idea how do we use it?

  • I would like to see an even stronger system, but this is certainly better than no system.  I support your proposal.

  • how do you rate yourself ?

  • I have a question – What if someone doesn’t have any (unprotected) content on their Xanga that is against the rules, but is encouraging things included in the flags (such as drug consumption or self-harm) in their comments to other users?

  • This is a much more reasonable and better way to handle the situation.  I never did understand the flagging as to how sites were flagged and the consequences for one lone dissenter, who could be a bit of a strange dude himself, to flag someone else’s site.  That part wasn’t clear.  But it was clear that there was a lot of fear that was generated because others didn’t understand it either.  This hopefully should allay those fears.  The last thing you want to do is to have people driven by fear – esecially when it is just based on ignorance.

    Thanks for reconsidering.

  • GOOD

  • Great idea!  This will help keep the xanga community safer for the kids!  Thank you for your efforts!

  • i want one of those rating things…can we rate other peoples to

  • if we rated our own content, would we be able to accompany the rating with an explanation (like “for occasional strong language and some sexuality”)?

    i’d be more enthusiastic if so.

  • I wouldn’t say it’s a bad idea, but Explain to me why I can’t change my own settings to what I can read? *THAT* is frustrating! You’re blocking my ability to read pages that I choose to read and aren’t allowing me to even click on the next safety level!

  • good. safety is important thesse days.

  • yeah,Great!I quite lyk the idea…

  • I applaud your safety steps you’ve implemented in keeping child porn off the net! Those sickos should be shot, but since we can’t shoot them, we can atleast REMOVE their disgusting sites from xanga, so xanga can be a fun and safe place for regular people who don’t have demented sexual fantasies.

    Good Job xanga!

  • I like the idea, but people do bring up good comments on it, I’m 16 but some of what my friends write on their xangas may be consider not readable by people under 18, I choose to read these things under my free will and I know my mom won’t want to take time out of her own schedule to give me the okay to read it, so then I would just have to never know?  That doens’t really work, somethings that are rated for a mature audience are sometimes meant more a younger audience to view/read.  On the subject of suicide I openly express my views about it to all ages, I think it’s a good thing to have younger audiences read about it and form opinions on things like this.  The world is opinion based is it not?  So then whhile I see why your letting us cross-rate how can we form our opinions to be able to rate it if we see the high rating given and are unable to read it?

    Altogether, I think it’s a great idea, I just think that having to get parental consent is not the way to go about things, it’s the readers choice, not the parents.  after all, when the reader is t their job are they going to call their mom or dad up for help or consent?

    Keep up all the great work!

  • what is the point in having the ratings of a b and c, if the highest filter level will only block out d and ex?

  • I like it. Good idea, imho. makes for plausible deniability.

  • I like this way better than the first flagging system.

  • Alrighty. So here’s a problem.

    I know you want to crack down on pro-anorexia sites and the like, and so we have flagging.

    But when people use layouts that remove the “flag” link, what do we do?
    [Example]
    As well, you may want to weed out the “pro-ana” weblogs, as there are quite a few out there.
    Sorry if I’m being a pain, but it’s a concern..heh.

  • good ideaa.

  • good ideaa.

  • hanks that helps. well buh bye!!see ya!1love yas, kaileybeals.

  • HEY

    <33 RACHAEL

  • what ever loser.

  • um, yeah I don’t feel comfortable giving you my credit card information.

  • not everyone has a credit card and i am well over 18. how do i verify then?

  • I think the ratings system is a good idea, however Premium users should not have to enter credit card info to verify their age since that info should be somewhere in a XangaCorp. database. One of my favorite Xanga users (momofjennmatt) had some trouble when she rated her own site, and several of her subscribers couldn’t get to her site as a D rating.

  • Not really entirely happy with it all…

  • hey ummm i just saw ur site and figured i’d say hey i didn’t even read it i just like to leave peeps comments..lol…well comment baQ please o and go to my friends site she will prolly commetn u 2…lol…ilavau_33….well i like ur icon….lol!!!

  • Rating for protection can be a good thing, kids who like to cross borders will find their way anyway. No stopping them.
    The contents can be abusive of a site, not only for explicit pictures but also language. Where do you start your rating.
    Liberal minded will choose an easier access, puritans will choose a more rigid one.
    I say keep your site clean and make sure you can be responsible for all you put on your site.
    Mind you a community has many colors So it’s all ok with a big but.
    At least you rate your own site and thereby tell the ones who visit what kind of site you are revealing.

  • mixed feelings.
    I don’t have kids, so I’m like “ratings? whatever.”

    and if I did have kids, how would I control whether they lied about their age on their profile or not?

    I dunno…. I guess it’s nice for me to be able to flag nasty content masquerading as a “harmless” site…. but that’s also the nature of the Internet. On the other hand, I don’t care if someone rates my site. I’ve got nothing to hide.

    perhaps an “opt-in” version would make us all happy?

  • what happens when youu flag someone?

  • All of these things are doing more damage to xanga than they are helping.  If you are so concerned about legal ramifications, then just shut down xanga and be done with it.

  • I can pretty much guess people will start leaving these types of sites for open source and full public ran sites..

  • wait! i am paying for this and i have to go through the trouble of re inputting my CC to verify i am me?!!?!? blogger here i come

  • I have a better suggestion-

    Have a seperate area of Xanga called “Xanga Kids”

    Let all kids blogs be moved to that area where they’ll never see anything inappropriate.

    .

  • someone said if it works for movies and video games, why not xanga?

    Main difference is you have to show proof of id when purchasing tickets or games. The thought behind it is good but I don’t think it’s very practical.

  • why can’t i sign into my xanga? it says to try again in 30 minutes, and it’s been saying that since last night!

  • I have a question about the tracker…

    So I’ve decided to view xanga anonymously…. but say someone else instead of using xanga footprints to track their users their using a tracker from another site…. would my screename show up on this?

    Please let me know.

  • Good Job.

  • sounds pretty good.

  • pretty sweet but why self-rate? i dont think my content is explicit, but someone else may. whatevah though. it wont stop viewers from reading anyway.but…cool ideas. i love how you guys constantly try to make things better. much appreciated.

    -Jenny, the one and only

  • yay, looks good to me!

  • Stop trying. No one cares anymore.

  • As long as it’s not too complicated to use. I’d also kinda like to be able to go to anyone’s xanga no matter the rateing. And maybe I still can, I’m just a little confused. I respect your attemts to save people from their own curiousity, but I would like to be trusted to go wherever I want to, regardless of rateing. If I can do that, I’m happy.

  • ~PROPZ~

  • I really think something like this is a good idea..but I am an adult..have premium…you can find that out I know..and would like to visit my friends..and now when I go..it won’t let me in…my site is for all audiences…I don’t want to have to go through anything to prove I am over 18…* ha..goodness…can someone check on that and let me in to my friends sites…this just started today…?* thanks….maybe it should be shown before the person enters..and then the person is notified and if parents are monitering which I hope there are…they will forbif their children to enter..but we adults..should be able to visitthe friends on our lists…this is a regular friend I visit …now i can’t get in to see her…help* thanks….Lee

  • ps I have young people who come…they need to read my post…so I would not want to not let them in…not sure what to do…?

  • That’s a really cool idea but in all realness kids are are going to be more eager to enter the sites that aren’t suppposed to enter in the first place ^o^

  • This is the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard. Why don’t you just actually shut down sites that break the Xanga rules? I mean, I know it sounds like a crazy idea but it just might work!

    And there’s no chance in hell I’m giving out my credit card number.

  • why do you have to enter your credit card information? that makes me really uncomfortable.  what are you verifying anyway? Age? Isn’t there another way to do that?

  • We don’t need more regulation. The purpose of the Internet is for everyone to be able to do and see everything, regardless of age.

  • first of all, that is good because it prevents little kids from seeing things or reading things that thier parents might not like. so i give it at least an 8 out of 10

    i think xanga should also have monitored chat rooms where people could talk with Java chats, that would be pretty cool, it can allow for anyone currently on xanga to talk with other people? how does every like that?

  • you should also make a group thing where people can meet through common grounds, then we could creat a cirlce of friends or maybe like a group page where people can all login into like an linternet home and talk about stuff.

    you could call it Xanga House or something like that.

  • you should add a feature that allows for speacial signetures to be added to the end of comments or blog entries

    wouldnt that be cool

  • The flag system is totally flawed and should be scrapped. However, the ratings system is perfect for what you normally intended with the flagging system. Too many people will try to abuse this flag system and I strongly recommend it be removed to avoid incidents involving Xangans. The honour system in which we report some individuals on the merits of their site was a far better idea than this flagging system which encourages the childish notion of “Tattling” on those who don’t adhere 100% to the TOS.

    Pretending to be someone else in some cases is not something that is truly a bad thing. Even with flagging, you will have imposters. You will also find that many young children will be able to dodge your age limit programming as many have done on other sites like Yahoo!

    While no system is truly flawless, the only one that is not only idiotic, unconstructive, and childish is the flagging system. I’m sure you have had plenty of posts about this issue. I do hope you truly consider removing it because there are no honest positives to this system. It will only lead to abuse amongst many Xangans who may have vendettas against other Xangans.

    -Concerned Xangan and Writer of the Free Word, Zeus

  • Rest assured if I, or anyone I know were to discover child porn, you would know that very instant. But I agree that many of your flags are forms of censorship, and while I acknowledge that freedom of speech is not something that private companies are required to honour, I believe that the freedom of speech is what has made Xanga so popular, as opposed to the tighter grip of Myspace.

  • Much better. I think this is a pretty good idea.

  • i like the rating idea.

  • It doesn’t seem to be possible to verify my age, even with a credit card. I tried two different cards. What’s up with this? A bug?

    ~Jenny

  • I don’t know if you actually *READ* your comments, but as a 40 year old woman, with NO CREDIT CARD to verify my age, this reeks of censorship and “Big Brother.”  I understand that “Xanga” has a legal and moral responsibility to its users, but sin’t there some other way around this?

  • Hmm… the ratings could be good… but I’m not a hundred percent on them.  It might just be easier to use an age block for “adult content” xangas.  If your vouched age is too low, you can’t access it.  Also, if it’s an adult xanga, it cannot be accessed by non-xanga members as a safety precaution.

    Personally, I’d rather be able to just post what I want when I want and not have to worry about throwing up a “C” for the week because I dropped a few too many curses in a rant, or jam up an impromptu “D” for contraversial topics.

    It’s a good idea in theory, but it might turn into a hassle.

  • I tried the whole rating system.  I don’t think you should have to add a credit card number to verify your age.  Not everyone has one.  I do but wont give it out online.  There should be another way around that.  Also now that I rated my xanga I don’t show up in the blogrings.  I rated it D and since I wont give my credit card number it doesn’t show up anywhere.  I tried changing the ratings to A but it still doesnt show up.

  • Good Job with all you guys are doing!!!! Thax

    Love Always<3

  • here’s something to work on that people might appreciate unlike the rating system.  How about getting rid of the shut down xangas.  If a user shuts the site down make it so you they don’t show up when your searching for something.  Completely delete that username and make it so the name can be reused.  That at shut down sites that go over a year without updating. 

  • *that and shut down sites that go over a year without someone logging in*

  • ummmmmmmmmmmm……………….thanks john this is a really goooooooooooooooooooooooodddddddddd…………………ideal!!

      <3Tiara 

                                         Love ya!!!!!             Bye

  • Cool. Great work, Xanga!!!!

  • Good job. It shows your sincere intentions for xanga to be a mature place to express ones self. Keep up the good work.

  • hey what up peeps?

  • awesome…

  • Oops. What happens if.. uh… my little brother flagged your site?

  • this is absolutely fucking ridiculous.  enter my credit card information to verify that I’m eighteen?  what the fuck IS this bullshit?  are you kidding me?  so now for the next week, I can’t read a friend’s site, because she rated her own site as D, and I am waiting on a replacement debit card to come in the mail.

    xanga has really gone down the shitter.  I’m going to have to rethink this, as I’m sure a lot of other folks are.

    lame, dude.  really lame.

  • That’s genius!  Can ALL the porn sites be closed though?  They’re rather disturbing when you stumble upon one accidentally.

  • Dumb. I’m not giving Xanga my credit-card information just so I can view blogs that use the word “fuck.”

  • I’m glad you are guys are finally doing something about it. Esp. since Xanga was on the news about it and all. I also think you should look at your blogrings and groups on Xanga. Esp. for the anoerxic, dangerous health realated issues, and sex realted Xangas. I find it very easy for myself to find any of those, what I find surprsing is that you guys arent doing anything about it. I’m giving you advice about it so there won’t be another lawsuit, penalty, or news articles about Xanga again.  

  • hey i dont know who you are but yeah are you john collins

    bcuz that boy is fine that is at the top of the line cute face lil waste and

    a big behind

  • Thats a great idea! that will be a really cool feature to have available

  • I agree with moniet… There has been this person ‘California’ who has been viewing a *lot* of peoples sites and never posting. There is a block part for people who post, isn’t there one for people who don’t post comments? It is kind of creepy.

    How do I cross rate another person’s site?

  • better.

  • These ratings are bullshit. The FLAGS are bullshit and don’t help anyone’s safety. Calling the flags a “success story” just means you’ve had positive feedback from the users. Unfortunately these people are mostly morons.

    http://help.xanga.com/contact/abuse.htm.

    This link has existed as long as I’ve been a member (almost 3 years) and this whole draconian “everyone watches everyone else” system is really kind of sickening. For ratings Xanga should at least give the option of nonparticipation, or prepare for a flood of moronic “I thought the site was for all ages because it said so but they said the word damn and I was like OMG so I’m reporting them” emails.

    “BTW: I am eagerly awaiting some way to keep unwanted users off my site, too!
    Posted 5/24/2006 at 7:34 PM by moniet”
    Use protected posts and put all your friends on your list. Like everyone else who contradictorily wants to have a blog and yet wants no one to look at it does.

  • for those who spent a lot of time wandering around xanga, I see how this will be helpful to them

  • Great job when will this happen

  • I think this is a good idea.  I think all of the stuff to keep this a safe place is great!

    thanks

  • If people looking at your site freaks you out,

    A) don’t have a blog, or

    B) Use discretion and don’t do things like, say, posting your phone number, school, or email address.

    If you don’t post private info, webstalkers (and there aren’t THAT many) can’t use it. Simple as that. We’re not 12 (the rules make sure of that), so we should at least know enough to know what is and isn’t stupid to do.

  • I’ve run into this on a friend’s site.  I think it’s a cool idea EXCEPT having to enter credit card info.  I am NOT comfortable with that.  Otherwise, I think you’re on the right track.

  • I think this is the stupidest thing I’ve seen yet!!  Kids get around ratings anyway they can and this is just another rating for them to bypass.  Keep the flagging system ditch the rating system.  I really don’t care either way seeing how I won’t and don’t use either one of them.

  • you guys are smart!!!

  • i got a problem guys.i got an xanga and i wanna delete it,but,i forgot my paasword and the e-mail i was useing for it was deleted.soi can’t delete it.if ya could help me out,it would be reall great.thank you

  • Is this a rating for your entire site, or individual posts? If it’s the former, it might get annoying to have to make sure you stay within the limits of your rating…

  • Great idea!

  • awesome idea.

  • ditto

  • Downside: People might start using scripts to rate people’s sites to explicit a sort of DoS attack. I’d figure out a way to get around that…

  • that is stupid

  • this is a really good idea.  much better than censoring everyone!

  • krazy

  • I don’t think this idea will work too well, because as many said before, kids can so easily lie about their age.  The rating system in general is too vague and confusing.  It’s a nice effort, but in reality, it’s not going to be very effective at all.

  • I’m not seeing a point to this.
    :-

  • Eh, I guess its ok, but I tried to verify my age to be able to view all sites and it gave me an error page! and I cant figure out who to email to ask about it either

  • I love it!

    Question: If people set their site to R or NC-17… will Xanga automatically block younger people on xanga? Like when you sign up you give Xanga your birthdate right? So will xanga automatically block 13-16 year-olds from viewing them? Cuz that would be really great!

    -Lee

  • that is a great idea!!! its so awesome how xanga is helping younger users instead of just not allowing them! keep up the good work!

    molly

  • I can understand why this is being done, but I don’t really like it. 

  • Also, why do I have to enter in credit card information just to verify that I’m of legal age?  I don’t like that.  Xanga is a free site (unless someone gets Premium) so there’s no reason for wanting information like that.

  • who will do the flagging?

  • Superb… you guys are awesome. You’re like.. my guardian angels! lol.. thanks.

    Donnie dArko

  • Wow that looks like a pretty good idea ;) .

  • That’s awesome!

    But what would also be awesome is….well, think someday Xanga.com will offer free video hosting?
    Because that’d be sweet!
    So many site have it available….

    Putfile.com
    Youtube.com
    Myspace.com
    Google.com
    Tinypic.com

    Why not Xanga.com?

  • ”
    These ratings are bullshit. The FLAGS are bullshit and don’t help anyone’s safety. Calling the flags a “success story” just means you’ve had positive feedback from the users. Unfortunately these people are mostly morons.

    http://help.xanga.com/contact/abuse.htm.

    This link has existed as long as I’ve been a member (almost 3 years) and this whole draconian “everyone watches everyone else” system is really kind of sickening. For ratings Xanga should at least give the option of nonparticipation, or prepare for a flood of moronic “I thought the site was for all ages because it said so but they said the word damn and I was like OMG so I’m reporting them” emails.

    “BTW: I am eagerly awaiting some way to keep unwanted users off my site, too!
    Posted 5/24/2006 at 7:34 PM by moniet”
    Use protected posts and put all your friends on your list. Like everyone else who contradictorily wants to have a blog and yet wants no one to look at it does.
    Posted 5/27/2006 at 10:49 PM by melodramangst”
     
    My comment was not addressed to anyone BUT the owner of this blog. He knows quite well what it is in reference to, and the ‘help’ you so graciously offered is not what the comment addresses. Thank you for thinking you know enough to answer for him though.

  • great!

  • I think that this is a great step and that some ratings system needs to be implemented. That said, I am 18 years of age. I do not currently have a credit card nor do I wish to use one of my parents’ credit cards online. Because of all of this, I can not view all of the sites that I may wish to. I believe that the current age verification system is not realistic or practical and I wish that you would find a better way to verify age.

  • yes this is better than the flag..

  • omg..awesome..hehehes..cool stuff.

  • I don’t want underaged minors on my page unless I know them. Has this gone too far? I don’t know.

  • heh, how many people have flagged THIS post?

  • i think crapspace needs a thing like this…… of course that would put even the login page under C or D for all those mostly nude trUe advertisments. yuck.

    THANK YOU for having a site just as cool without the whole “hey all my friends are on here, i have to ‘be all cool’ (translation: be immature and talk about nothing but sex) so they will like me!” oh PLEASE.

  • My God, this is redickulouos. I think what I’ll do is just find the people that I don’t like and then fuck their site up with some wacked out rating.

  • yea it will be great*

  • child porn aside, is my blog going to be rated R or NC 17 because I’m openly gay, even though most of what I write about is theology and what I want to do with my life? this system has the potential to be severely stupid.

  • “Superb… you guys are awesome. You’re like.. my guardian angels! lol.. thanks.”

    I think the term you were looking for is ‘big brother’

  • I also agree with the notion that ratings will probably make the explicit-rated content more popular. What easier way to find it than for Xanga to provide an easy filtering system. It’s simply going to backfire more than help.

  • also, just to be frank, before I turned 12 I could lie my way into adult sites. it’s not something I’m proud of, but even credit card verification doesn’t prove anything, but it does help ensure that fewer people will see things like poetry, perfectly legitimate political and theological points, and things like that if I ever once mention something obscene. frankly, I suspect your recent actions with the flagging and now this is more out of cowardice than concern. I’ve been on xanga a year and never seen anything that couldn’t be put on a billboard, let alone child porn or something like that – and I bet I could easily find a completely free site full of perverts that would jump all over me if I told them I was 9 years old. this censorship isn’t helping anything but this company. I pay for the priveledge to use your sight as a means for legitimate expression. I see alot of people with comments like this:

    “omg..awesome..hehehes..cool stuff.”

    but there are people here who are not in middle school would would appriciate it if you didn’t change the service you offer after we’ve allready purchased it to accomidate children who can find stuff worse than what’s on xanga by far by just googling it. if you find people who are using this site to solicit minors for anything inapproprite, please report them, but there are allready resources (like the cyber tipline you mention) that are better at that than you will ever be.

    you have the potential to seriously be part of an exciting new leap in the evolution of human communications. you are part of the incarnation of the collective consciousness. you could be remarkable. please, please, please do not start censoring and putting up barriers and relegating this site to a hang out for 12 year old gossips. you sell yourself short.

  • John I heard you had rethought the credit card verification of age. I hope this is true.  Instead of all of these complicated things you are doing why don’t you just have an adult section. Why not model after like Craigs list. Judi Singleton

  • and sorry for posting repetitively, but if my site were rated off colour for something or other, could the people who read it who aren’t users of xanga still use it? half the people who read my xanga are not from xanga, like my uncle, friends who I REFER FROM LIVEJOURNAL (you’re welcome for the free advertising) because until recently xanga has not had anything to recommend I revert to LJ…I use this site cheifly as something to give non-xangans. nobody is going to waste time verifying their age – and certainly not if it involves credit cards, if my site were to be rated adult. what constitutes adult anyway? show somebody blowing up a building and it’s evening news, a gun might make PG13, but a gay romance is R rated. bah.

  • At least the brain juices in Xanga is trying to combat a real problem situation to protect minors. Best of luck with your efforts….One has to take the baby steps before one can win the battle. I support the flagging and rating of sites. It does not prevent access but at least place more responsibility on users browsing through Xanga. Just be aware of taking the FUN out of Xanga with tooo much legislation.

    I still ask for the ability to used different protected blog lists. Currently I have only one. I would like to see an ability to have 10 or more lists of people. So that if I post family stuf only my family will see it…if I post say explicit stuff then I can protected it by only opening it up to people I know can handle it. Rather than trying to govern every blog give us more tools to govern our own blogs as well.

  • Wow, the things you guys come up with! Xanga just keeps getting better and better!

    Rock on!

  • I really hope it works for the best.

    I like the idea of open expression in this community but it would be nice to have some assurance that the youngest ones are somehow less vulnerable.  I applaud your efforts.

  • ditto. little note thought, if i was a teen looking for something good to surf while parents were away i would be looking for the adult rated sites first and use a fake ‘ID”.  this method only covers the site holders ass, it wouldn’t prevent yung’ins from surfing for skin.  notification by ID or email would open far too many security loops or complicate the privacy policies

  • Support!!

    That’s why I choose XANGA!

  • I love what u guys are trying to do here.  This will make life a lot easier for people that i know that are pretty young.  This will keepthem safe.  Great work guys. Keep it up

  • okay, i was looking at this and what if you don’t have a credit card to verify your age to mark your content for only upper ages?? Are you going to change that? I’m not in the habit of owning credit cards because I think that they are a waste of time.
    Other than that I think that this is a GREAT idea, not just because of all this little peoples on this site but for others who might not want to read certain types of posts. Great work!

  • what the hell xanga? requiring my credit card information to verify that i’m 18? some people don’t have credit cards, you know.

  • great! I love it. We have needed something like this for a while now. It looks good.

    ~Justin~

  • But at the same time there are many people who are right about some stuff. I know there are many people out there who would check someones site and be like “I don’t like this person, so I’m going to give them a crappy rating.” I think you need to be careful with this even though all around I think that this could work well, aside from the idiots who inhabit the xanga planet. Also, I really really really wish that you guys would open up comments to anyone, or at least have a setting where you can have only xangans post or non-xangans are allowed to post too. I have alot of friends online…and many of them are not interested in having an “online journal” but it doesn’t mean that they do not read what I post on a regular basis. I really really really really REALLY think that you guys should consider this because several other sites have this option and I know it receives positive feedback.
    Either way with any of this stuff you are going to have people who like it oh so much, and then people who ALWAYS complain and abuse the system. People in general are just like that. And you will never be able to make everyone happy.

    thanks again for your great work.

  • I have an idea for this…

    Would it be possible to have a rating for each blog or post that we make instead of for the overall package? Some rants and stuff would need to be given a higher rating than regular every day posts.

  • i’m really not a fan of the rating system. at least how it’s set up now. i think we should be able to set the settings, but that a credit card shouldn’t be required to do it. i went to comment on a friend’s xanga, and can’t because of the settings. yes i’m over 18, i’m 20, but i don’t have a credit card. and therefore, can’t even get into a friend’s xanga, which is bullshit.

    the ratings thing is fine, the verification thing is major SUCKY.

  • fag

  • GOOD!

  • thats actually  pretty good idea, bu8t as people said before, people could lie about their ages. :( i still think it is a good idea though

  • What pisses me off about Xanga is that you have sights like FatherDirtySanchez and all he talks about is pedophilia, but his site is still running.  If you were really interested in protecting children you’d have shut his site down the first time I reported it.  That guy should be in jail. 

  • This seems like a better idea…

  • =) NICE

  • i don’t like how we have to enter our credit card information to verify we’re 18. especially since the site is NOT completly secure, only partially. so if i enter my credit card number and somebody gets it because of your non secure site that means you will pay it back right? pshh. find another way xanga.

  • i think its a good idea… keep up the good work!!

  • nice

  • Good idea!  Hope you teach us how to do it!  :)

  • I prefer rating to flagging. but still, i don’t like the whole system.

  • re- you have to use a credit card?! i am 18, but I don’t have a credit card for personal reasons. does that mean i won’t be able to access certain sites?

    that’s ridiculous! 

  • Excellent idea!

  • Though credit card info on a non secure site is a wee bit sketchy…

  • i personally love the idea.

  • i cannot change to “do not filter any content” of the safebrowser although i am over 18. help! i’d like to be able to read some of my subscriptions.

  •                                                    

    I think anyone who DOESENT  want this…has something to hide  I Love it. I think its a great way for you to take care of your customers Thank you so much!! 

    also….. for some reason people cant get onto my xanga?? there computers are getting booted off why is this happeneing? I pay priemuim and could use some answers for help…thank you

                                                             

  • thats a great idea!

  • that’s interesting… so they can rate youe site

  • Do you ever get bored of this job!!!!!

  • you’re just chasing off your users, like me. in your fervor to try to protect people from themselves, make sure not to put yourself out of business.

  • I am so glad to hear about the rating system. I’ve almost given up on xanga because inappropriate language/content is never more than a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend away. I’d be extremely pleased if I could block sites that contained PG-13 (or worse) material.

    Thank you Xanga!!

  • I bet your job is hard, having to listen to everyone’s diff opinions and sort through it all. More power to ya. Like everything else I think this has its good points and its bad. But I think the good outweigh the bad so I’m all for it!!
    Keep up the great work!!

  • and are the ratings going to be for the entire site, or for ea. post?

  • and couldn’t people lie about their ages?

  • Am still waiting for you to flag my ass….

    Yes……

    Flag it……….

    Flag it bad….

    Flag it good……

    Flag it………

    meh……………….

    The nuances of anything i says is protected under the cover of darkness………….

    I only can hopes what you are doing keeps those bad bad bad peoples away frum me fo ever mo………..

  • thats a good idea

    the parents can set bounderies for the younger users who are only here to keep up w/ their friends and not to grow up WAY faster than they should if ya know wat i mean

    laterZ God Bless

  • kewl!

  • i think its about time! this world is messed up enough with out child porn and all that crap… how sad that some innocent child should have to go through that…
    so thanks xanga team!

  • …Sounds like a great idea, John. However, how can we trust people to accurately rate their own sites?

  • I like the ratings idea. But I donthave a credit card. so how am i supposed to veryify it!

  • not only does it protect random viewers, it also protects the person who’s site their looking at. both parties are aware of what they are getting themselves into. i like the responsibility the xanga user has to accept. thanks!

  • I think the ratings system is an excellent idea – although most of the people I come into contact with through xanga post content appropriate for all ages, I love the concept that I would know if I hit a link to someone’s that was very explicit.

  • how do you flag someone if their layout doesn’t allow it?

  • well i think u have a good idea if u can keep up with it. i’m an older guy but you’ll never see make some of the comments on here that i have seen to kids. yes i go all over and if i see something i like i will comment on it.it is a good place for all types of ppl if they use it well.

    thanks

  • Good job guys, I have been wanting away to warn parents about my often “R” rated content.

  • Ok I know this has nothing to do with any of the post but I got a new xanga and the picture on the layout isn’t working!!  I’ve tried numerous of layouts and there still not working!!  I don’t know what the deal is!  It is suppose to have a Marilyn Monroe picture in the background!  Oh and you should also have a age limit like no one over 30 something or something like that because there was a 40 year old looking at my site and looked at it too many times over and over!!  And it really freaked me out!!  And I had to shut my old one down!  And now that I have a new one it’s not working out right!!  A 40 year old should have nothing to do with xanga!!!  Especially talking to a 14 year old girl!  I’m sorry for being rude but I seriously think that a 40 year old should not have a xanga!!  How is it suppose to be safe!?  anyway Nice job with the site

    Chelsea

  • Ok sorry about that last comment I was on the wrong xanga!  Anyway like I was saying You should set it to where if your over 18 you cannot view the person site that is under 18!!  Thats how myspace has theres!  And it’s alot safer that way! 

    Chelsea

  • Sweet plan. Users will have to be honest and hold each other accountable, though, so hopefully that goes smoothly enough.

  • I think that allowing people to illegally display pornographic material, even under a rated site, is disgusting and should not be allowed. I have accidently ended up at some of those X-rated xangas and to be completely honest, theyre just redistributing porn from other sites, which in fact is illegal.

    Ratings are fine. Allowance of porn is not. The end.

  • that sounds great…it should work

  • coolio i give my self a B lol *for beautiful*

    ~grace~

  • lol, salad

  • This is bullshit. Not everyone who is 18 or older has a Credit Card to prove it. Thanks a lot for keeping me from viewing some interesting blogs on xanga.

  • i like the idea but i don’t like the fact that i am of age to view sites and i am not able to because i don’t have a credit card. i love the fact that children and younger ones won’t be able to see such things from the site, but all of age people don’t have credit cards or want to share credit information.

  • While this sounds innocous enough, what do you mean by CROSS-RATE? You’re going to have to be a lot more explicit.
    I think the system is far too complex:
    A simple THIS IS A FAMILY FRIENDLY SITE
    or THIS SITE MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO SOME VIEWERS
    would probably be all you need, assuming you need anything.

  • I’ve had time to think about this since my last posts.

    I’m still for the rating system in a way. And, over 18 really shouldn’t be looking at underage blogger sites. However, unless they are related and communicating that way, you know?

    Anyway, as for the age restrictions and verification; I think a one time check should suffice. Or no check at all. I’m not really for or against it.

    I do think that people should be able to access what they want though unless someone sets their blog to private or set up a select amount of viewers.

    I found a porn blog site on here and it was much more graphic than what I would have wanted to see and it wasn’t even appealing. lol. So, WOW, it was AWFUL!

    So, I don’t know where this is going. I’ll just wait it out. As for credit info. or stuff; I hope you all use paypal instead. I don’t feel comfortable just giving out all my info.

  • How would I be able to access ex-rated sites?

  • hi

  • This is a free blogging community. This isn’t a network channel on national television. I think this rating system, the flagging, and shutting down “inappropriate” sites is ridiculous. Get off your high horses or half your users will leave. But then again, who cares? Most use the free account anyway, right?

  • having to put our credit card information up just to enable the higher rated lock is crazy, even if we aren’t being billed.

  • coolie

  • Ye’ye’yes.

  • That’s cool, because I did feel like the whole flagging thingy was censorship, so the rating thing is cool.

  • I dont understand this “Xanga SafeBrowse EX Age Verification” thing. I dont have a credit card but I am over 18. Why do you need a credit card number? I dont have one so I guess that puts me in the catigory of “under 18?”

    Help!

  • again Don’t feel comfortable giving you my card number, again, you suck.

  • When will this start?heh mine would get an “A for all ages!”

  • HAHHAHHA

  • HELP!!!!!!! xanga is blocked in school COMPLETELY and we full-time boarders are desperate to get on it..

  • Eh. to much work for me… if i dont wanna read it then i wont. I hope there is a way to turn it off.

  • What is going to keep people from abusing this system?

  • And how are you going to be able to tell wether or not kids or adults are lying about their ages?

  • Great! But could you review what distinguishes more clearly between the A, B, C, D, eX? This was people can accurately rate sites, and not be unpleasantly surprised. Is there any way to monitor whether the self rating & cross ratings systems will be accurate? Just questions, I think this is an awesome advancement.

  • That’s really awesome. :D

  • Thats really cool, good job Xanga people!!

    One question: what is flagging…im kinda lost on that.

    comment me back.

  • Is there some way of getting across to morons that

    a) Sex is not dirty or something that makes you a bad person

    b) No one forced you at gunpoint to type in http://www.xanga.com

    c) Looking at something and then complaining to someone that you looked at it is somewhat dim

    d) The more you try to stop ‘da kidz’ looking at something they shouldn’t, the more they will find ways of looking at it

    I feel however that resolving all of these rather simplistic matters is really asking too much of the masses.

  • you guys rock! do the ratings!

  • John, I need to talk to you. This person with the screen name California has been going on my site several times a day. He has no posts made and his guestbook is chock full of people who are asking who he is and to stay off their sites. He doesn’t ever post in my site. I think this is cyber stalking and I want it to stop. Please don’t just delete his screen name, DO something. I’m getting really nervous.

  • don’t like rules and regulations

  • Great, I know alot of 12-17 year olds that use xanga and there are parts of xanga I do not appreciate for the mature content. How will Xangan’s help rate Blogs?

  • awesome. no, more than awesome. brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!

  • More toys to play with…

  • that’s awesome!!! thank u!!!!

                         <3333333 hannah

  • I’m sorry but all of the flagging and censorship defeats the purpose of a location to freely express ones self.

  • what are some things that would be inappropiate for children other than hard-core prOn? a little elaboration?

  • Credit card information to verify the fact that I am over 18 is absolutly ridiculous. Many people don’t even own credit cards, so does that make me under 18? Sorry, not liking the idea AT ALL.

  • Um the only prob I see with this is the only way to verify age is enter a credit card # ! I don’t dig that!! That sucks actually! Find some other way to verify age!

  • I like it!!

  • First of all, I am eighteen years old and have been a Xanga user since I was fifteen. Second of all, I refuse to use a credit card, because I’m a college freshman and don’t want to risk getting in financial trouble. Does that mean I can’t access my friend’s site now?

    I’m shutting down my xanga. This is ridiculous.

  • really not liking this whole credit card thing. i tend to be stingy about giving out my credit card information over the internet. thanks for trying to find some other way to verify!

  • cool

  • sweet action…
    im very impressed,
       nice work

    thank you.

    -j

  • um. yeah. i’m almost 21 and own no credit cards….but apparently i can’t decide for myself what is and is not suitable for my poor poor virgin eyes.  oh if only i, and everyone else, had a stronger set of christian values, there would be no sinful pages of curse words and/or sexually descript writings! 

    your new censorship system blows.

    fix it, or trash it and find some other way of appeasing the control-freak masses. either way, do it quick, or you are going to lose a huuuuge amount of xangans.

  • Definately a better wy of doing things…

  • That is very clever. It will solve so many problems too!

  • Fantastic!

  • Thats great!!!!  Im so proud of u guys…thinking of the little people and all!!!  great job!!!!!!!!! XD

  • Sounds like a good idea. My only concern is about defining just what each rating covers.

    The General Audiences and NC-17 content is pretty self-explanitory I think. But for the ones inbetween, it might help if there were some guidelines for how explicit something is. Maybe if you could give examples for what qualifies a certain rating, like how the ratings on the back of videos say things like “Adult Language, Drug Usage, Sexual Scenes” blah blah. I think that would make the system more accurate.

  • HELP!!! We have the Be Safe Online filter and it recently blocked all xanga access for us. I am on my husband’s computer trying to ask you how to get around this. It’s the American Family Filter My boys and I only visit good istes and I would love for you to review them if you want to ANNE62, madeinmissouri1992, and musicguy09 Please advise as to how we might be able to access xanga and keep our filtering system. It’s one o fthe very best out there.

    Thanks so much for considering this.

    ANNE62

  • Well its a good start but as someone who runs a different kind of offensive site I am a little cautious of rating my site.

  • That is great!!!

  • You’re just another corporate sheep bleating away in some pasture chewing muddy grass in your tick infested wool. This is stupid. I can’t even tell you how stupid.

  • And I’m talking about the rating system, not child porn.

  • I’ve already reported many users to the FBI and SLED over the past year. That’s gone successfully, too. Glad to see you’re stepping up to getting the scum (pedophiles) out of here!

  • GREAT!!!

  • Are they anonymous?

  • “You’re just another corporate sheep bleating away in some pasture chewing muddy grass in your tick infested wool. This is stupid. I can’t even tell you how stupid.

    Posted 5/29/2006 at 12:13 AM by xTAE_bo”

    I disagree.  This is not censorship, this is giving each Xanga’n the option to set their own browsing preferences.  If you want no limits, then just set your site at EX.  I’m sure Xanga will make it easy enough.  Just don’t panic.

    Pete

  • I don’t like the method of verification personally. Not every adult has a CC and I know there are alot of pple not comfortable with just handing that info out over the internet. I pay for my premium through paypal so I don’t have to worry about it. Surely there is another way of verification w/o requiring information such as SSN or CC#’s.

  • i really really like both of those ideas.

    but i have a concern about another subject. why does California keep coming up on footprints? a lot of people seem to be noticing exactly the same thing, and we’re all curious.

    ~Samit<3<33

  • Frankly I think its a load of crap, we’re required to rate ourselves now? What if we don’t, will a rating be involuntarily applied? What if we want to be able to write what we want in whatever terms we want and have the people who read it decide whether or not its something they want to be exposed to without having to ‘rate’ ourselves? It’s not like I post explicit pictures, I’m not soliciting anything from anyone, I’m simply writing. The fact that ‘disagreeable’ words may come up once in a while, or that I may occasionally mention sex, means I have to rate my site so people who find such things distasteful can more easily avoid me?

    Screw that. Let the people police themselves and limit ‘content flagging’ to sites filled with graphic descriptions of sexual acts or actual pornographic photos.

  • I already love the footprints… and now ratings???!!!! Xanga, you spoil us.

  • Fabulous solution to the censorship problem. :)

  • It’s not a bad idea, but quite frankly… a little more education is necessary… how the heck do you go about reading the sites you want to read?

  • Awesome! I was having problems with my internet provider blocking Xanga because of certain peoples’ sites and this has saved Xanga for me! I really don’t care what people put in their Xanga’s because I don’t have to read it if I don’t want to, but this is great for those who are concerned about the content their children can access. Thanks a million!

  • EXCELLENT!!!!! Good job and I am waiting for unwanted users off my site, too!!

  • This is so fucking retarded. Goddamn it, I despise Xanga now. Stop giving in to the media. Not every 18 year old has a credit card…or lives with someone who does.

    I’m 19. I have no credit card. I live on my own.

  • Your rating system, requiring me to put in my credit card info to access my friends site, IS GOING TO LOSE YOU SO MANY FUCKING CUSTOMERS IT’S NOT EVEN FUNNY YOU FUCKING IMBECILES! Jesus Christ you people are retarded.

  • Fantastic.

  • great idea

  • J, I think it’s a good idea since as a young parent with young kids I don’t want my kids looking at things they shouldn’t be if I’m not around so that I can set my computer to only allow so much content and if you do that with xanga then I applaud you, it’s not censorship it’s responsibility of both parties.

  • When I try to verify my age to view unfiltered content, I keep getting a “this document has two root elements” XML error. What’s ridiculious about this is that I just bought Xanga Premium less then two weeks ago. For God’s sake, quit using Micro$hit products. Penguins r0xe3r$.

    Also, wasn’t there supposed to be a “talk-back” on the ratings i.e. you rate your own site and then other’s rate it too then Xanga compares the two?

    I know it’s a big site, but this is twice I’ve caught some poor coding within a month. Can we have get better testing cycles or is the Mirco$hit tesing model in place? i.e. “write code, release code, let the world loose billions of dollars finding our bugs, apologize, release patch with bugs, repeat”.

  • love it!  seems less totalitarian.

  • looks better then before, less totalitarian

  • I ask if you changed your mind about the credit card thing for verification if not I am out of here no more premium for me. I don’t need you I have wordpress on my own site. Judi

  • This could go both ways. While good, and bad.

    Sorry, but I don’t want to input personal numbers(Like Credit Card numbers.) Just to verify that I’m a certain age. Or just so I can visit a friend’s site.

    I know quite a few kids who can easily get ahold of their parents credit card pretty easily.

    On the other hand:

    I also think that it’s a good idea. The rating system. That way we do have a higher chance at weeding out those sites that are inappropriate. (Child porn, etc.)

    Anyhow. Just my input.

  • great idea! As long as we were responcible for self rating. Yes, obviously some people could lie-but what would the point be? If you let people know what sort of blog you had, then they could choose for themselves to continue reading or not. i know sometimes i am suprised-and not pleasently so. I mean, i dont complain i just stop reading. I dont believe in censorship. Everyone has the right to say what they wish on their own blog, and i have the right to read or not read, depending on that. BUT at the same time, if parents are keeping track of what their kids are reading-which i think is a good idea for certain ages-this might help them out, and like i said before it gives each reader a general idea of what they might be reading.

    -ALICE

  • However, i am confused about the credit card thing that folks are talking about. Was that in an earlier post? definitly dont think thats neccesarily a good idea because not everyone does have a credit card, and i am not sure how some would feel putting their numbers online for xanga. I am wierd about using mine online unless its something bank related or card related that i really trust.

    so that might not be a good idea…but like i said, i am not really sure what thats all about. I didnt see anything about that here.

    ALICE

  • dude. get my frickin card number from your client list i aint got time to monkey around with your little application to read nonsense

  • How do you stop Error Safe popping up when I log into my account. It always happens – http://www.errorsafe.com/pages/scanner/index.php?aid=xanga_au_en_ed2&lid=in&ex=1&p=&ax=1&h=

    This is really annoying me. Will this stop this hijacking?????????

  • I like the rating Idea I know sum people who put pg-13ish pix on there site but I couldn’t flag because they were over 18! =( thanks for all you do to protect us young ones!
    TJ

  • i cant see what i type from my blog, who can help me that, actually? 

  • yeh, you’ve been needing to refocus on the flagging system, nothing ever happens when i flag sites or either it does’nt work!

    Please, I am an recovering anorexic and sick of pro-ana sites. i have a personal request for shutting down these really sick sites, especially one with the username of pro-ana-nation  ,  OperfectsuicideO and xxshowbonesxx it never works when I flag them.

  • I only have one problem with the whole rating system, how do I change it once I set it? Please let me know!

  • mnmh

  • I AM VERY MUCH AGAINST THIS NEW SYSTEM. I DO NOT WISH XANGA TO HAVE MY CREDIT CARD NUMBER. THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A FREE SERVICE. I BET YOU’LL FIND A LOT OF PEOPLE MOVING TO LIVEJOURNAL BECAUSE OF THIS. WAY TO GO…

  • I can’t say I’m a huge fan of the credit card age verification. That’s riddled with all sorts of issues, and will really just drive people away. Why stay here and jump through your hoops when we can just go elsewhere and set up another free account with no hassles?

  • I agree that the ratings system would be a great idea.

    I also have an idea that perhaps you’d like to toy with. I think I say this for not only me but for plenty of other Xanga users that the blocking system isn’t enough. What I mean is that you can block people from commenting you and vice versa, but they can still view your site. I don’t mean to sound like a jerk, but there are some people that I don’t want to view my site at all. Yet if I block them, they still can view my site. Is there a way you can make some sort of blocking system that the Xanga people can use so they can block unwanted viewers? It would be a helpful tool for everyone and it will stop a lot of fighting on here. And I’m saying this because I personally am having problems with Xanga users that are starting trouble on my site. I had to shut my site down twice because of that. So I hope that you can think about this idea and hopefully use this idea to make a system to help us with this kind of problem.

    Thank you.

  • Bah!  C’mon you guys… you’re dropping the ball here big time…

  • I think it’s a great idea, however…will we still have to use a credit card to verify that we’re over 18 to view “EX” rated sites?  I don’t have a credit card even though I am 18 and even if I had one, I wouldn’t give it out over the Internet…can you do driver’s license/state ID numbers instead or something like that?  Or passport numbers?  Anything else?  It seems silly to restrict people’s access just because they don’t have a credit card or don’t feel comfortable giving out their credit card number online….

  • This is the stupidest idea EVER.  Smarten up.

  • lol. hilarious.. but useful.

  • I can’t change my filter so that I can look at my friends’ pages… what’s with that?

  • BOOOO!!!

    I REFUSE to enter my CC on Xanga! I have Xanga Premium and you already have that information!!!

    Looks like I’ll be shutting my Xanga down.

    Way to go, pinheads!!

  • I think it’s pretty ridiculous that I have to give up my credit card number to see blogs that i’ve been reading for years.

    This network is slowly becoming a bigger pain than it’s worth.

  • I’m well over the age of 18, but I don’t want to enter my credit card number to visit the sites.  You need to come up with some other way of verification of age.

  • ok i have a problem with this….im 18 years old but i dont have a credit card (i would be so much in debt if i do) and the only way to verify age is with a credit card. This completely screws me over! i cant view sites of anyone who rates their content EX. I think that there needs to be an alternate way to prove age.

  • Is there something else I can use to verify my age?  I don’t have a credit card (debit only).  I shouldn’t be penalized for this.  I’m almost 20 years old and can’t read content above a “D” rating.  This rating system is a failure. 

  • I like that system…as for rating/cross rating…how would that be monitored, if at all?  (ratings G when it should be R, or vice versa, for example…)

    Good Job!

  • So basically you need a credit card to go on any sites that might be risque.

    That’s going to shut out a lot of people.

  • i dont mind letting people viewing my site and stuff so the lock is not for me but i like the rating thing good job xanga good job

  • i need like really big help. my site lizzies_icons got deleted, and i need to get back on there

  •  I love this new ratings idea, I feel it gives users more freedom to post what they like. Great work.

  • I think that’s a great Idea.

  • I use the word fuckalot…….. Will I still be able to do that without having some nazi crime-stopper overlooking me?

  • i think its dumb. its a journal. if you have kiddie porn get kicked pff, if your cursing, you know, dont read the rest of the page. this whole rating system makes me feel like im at the moves and im 5 again

  • sweet…love it!

    keep it up…i love your ideas

  • Now if there were only some rating logos to tell us things like, “This is lame,” “Some material may be inappropriate for those with taste,” or “EMO.”

    I kid of course, good idea. Can this be post by post, or is it for all of a users posts?

  • wicked!

  • Nice one, great. So how can I add such a flag?

  • Sounds like a plan to me It’s an awesome idea!

  • wow, I think this is an absolutely fabulous idea.  I have a younger sister that is ready to get her first xanga site, and I was really worried that she might see or read some really inappropriate things online if she wasn’t careful about whose site she visited.  These new security upgrades give me peace of mind.  I know now that the Xanga Team is really commited to making blogging a safe enviroment.  Thanks so much!!!!!

    ~ Katie ~

  •      By “cross-rate each others’” do you mean that visitors will be able to influence what your blog is rated? Because many find viewpoints which they dissagree with to be innapropriate for children. I could forsee many people flagging blogs for things such as my “this site contains material not suitable for Christians” or my opinion on seperate bathrooms. this would make Xanga a less desirable place for those with non-majority opinions.

         However, I do agree strongly with the personal ratings. Will they be by entry or by blog?

  • NEATO

  • kool kool thats awsome well you rock!

  • I think this rating system is really unnecessary and insulting, and I’m not interested in giving sensitive credit card information just to “prove” I’m nearly 30 years old.  Let the parents control what their kids see, as it is their responsibility and not Xanga’s.  They make ‘net nannies for this already and honestly it’s just redundant.

  • I think parents should pay attention to what their kids are doing… but since nobody is going to do that I guess xanga can just raise their children for them!

  • great idea.  I really like it!

  • i think its a good idea but a waste of your time becuse not alot of people will buy into it. will you guys post them or will we post em on our site

  • how do u verify yourself if u dont have a credit card?

  •      xanga needs help not with problems with porn u need to work on ur site by expanding it like myspace because most of my friends belong to myspace because its a better site and u can do more on it. if xanga was more like myspace u would have double the people u have now. if u go on most peoples sites they only have a few entrys or they are out of date and the site just was dumped  lots of my old friends have done that plus all the names that people have took for there sites are taken so when they don’t shut down there site and just leave to go to myspace or anther site.  then no one else can take that name. myspace is different. if u guys that work on this stuff do upgrades and change your site more people will come and less people will leave. soon more people like me will just have to dump there xanga and go to myspace instead if u guys don’t work on this problem. peace

  • the rating and flagging things would be cool! but make it up to a rating please, or check mark ratings, cuz i’d like to see more than 1 rating. All ratings option too!

  • Thumbs up.

  • It sounds terribly complicated. But it’s of course a great idea. Will you guys make a guide to help us rate our own site? I don’t think it’s easy to asses your own content…

  • Thanks for doing all you can to keep xanga safe and fun for all users.

  • I still don’t understand this new system. Why can’t I change my settings so I can view C, D, and EX content? Please contact me with a solution.

  • wow i think thats pretty neat

    dancing_babe23

  • does this mean we can post all the pr0n we want!??!

  • This is a fantastic idea long over due. It promotes responsibility and integrity and keeps everyone safe — writers and readers. I applaud you!

  • Great idea, except how do you change the settings?  I have now been blocked from a
    friend’s site who got a rating of “D”…..I’m certainly old enough.  You have my CC information
    for premium account privileges, auto renewed so how does this get fixed?  No instructions
    given under “help”.

    Peace….

  • whatz up!

    r u single if not call me

    luv always, trish<3

  • I agree that measures need to be taken but I am really not liking the credit card info for people to get onto sites, not to mention I know some people who can’t because they have no credit card….

  • I’m lost. I’m 23. I’m a card-carrying member of the ‘Born in 1982 Club’ and have indicated as such in my profile. But I’m not allowed to view sites marked as “D for Discretionary”. How are you calculating what it takes to become 18 years of age?

  • Interesting…I’m wondering exactly how the “D” rating would work.  How would you be sure that the person approving the content was the user’s parent?  Or would the rating just flash as a warning? 

    Also: someone who wanted to see those things could just change their age.  The real problem is that it’s such an easy system to get around–at least at this point.

    The overall idea is good.  It just needs some fine tuning.

  • holy crap you guys suck balls. and I mean that in the nicest way possible. I can’t read or comment on friends’ pages that I’ve been reading for LITERALLY YEARS!!!! because you want a fucking credit card number?

    this account has lifetime premium. I’m going to fight you assholes for my money back. FU.

  • GREAT IDEA : P

  • :D :D kewl

  • This is a good thing. Good for ya’ll!

  • Is there a way to save an entry and come back to it later??? I lost my whole blog entry when some nit witt got on the computer while I was answering the door. I couldn’t go back to my page and continue where I left off!!! RRRR. and where do I go to when I have a question for the team??

    Thanks
    P.S.
    The rating system is a good idea

  • What about sites that would have mostly entries that would fall in the “A” zone, but then one or two (on, say, one particularly bad day) that may fall under “C”? Would it be a C, or an A?

    Age verification could get tricky, too, since it’s very easy to input an older age than you really are, and until you have a credit card, there’s really very little you can use to actually verify how old someone is; and who would join a site that emails their parents every time they want to see something of a D rating? (Or even once–granted, I’m 19 now, but when I was under 18, I wouldn’t have bothered asking them to verify something; I would’ve just passed…) Plus, what’s going to prevent someone from putting in a friend’s email as their parents’ email, and having them “verify” each other for D content..?

    The ratings system could be good in theory, but in practice, may be kinda useless in the end.

  • It’s better than flagging.

  • Cool idea. Let’s see how it works/

  • I think the rating idea is a GREAT idea, because it’s respectful to a lot of people & what they personally wanna be seeing. =]

  • It’s a great idea. I’m amazed with some of the ideas you guys are coming out with lately. Thanks for you work! Wow. Now for the kinks… (Good luck with those too.)

  • I think the ratings system is fantastic!!! You guys are awesome!

  • Xanga is changing, and it’s not for the better. I honestly don’t really see the need for this.
    Does this mean someone could harass another user by making 5 Xangas and clicking the “EX” button a lot?

  • You know some people just lie on the internet. I know it may be a crazy thing to say, but someone had to say it.

  • I am uncertain about this, because if a person underage wants to read a xanga no rating is going to keep them from reading the content. I don’t know how I feel about rating my own content..

    but I will give it a chance

  • yea mk

  • We’re censoring the bloody internet now?

    Oh, next I’ll have to give a rating before every sentence I say.

  • sweet

  • Is it possible to give someone’s Xanga one of these ratings? 

    I know a person who uses AOL Instant Messanger to threaten people, and I was wondering if her Xanga could be shut down.

  • ok i have some coments…1st off how in the world are u gunna figure out how old some 1 is??

    2nd whats up with these foot print things…u cant tell hwo came on ur site..just that they come on ur site its kind of…anoying…

    also about the ratings system some little pervert could easily set thiers to explicit..how can u keep these things from hapening ?

    also about the looser who said the person would have to give thier parents e-mail adress b-4 they got on the underaged site…HELLO YOU COULD UTS E-MAIL IT 2 URSELF!! dorkwad…

    i do understand the porn and death threat rating tho good job on that 1 =)

  • I don’t know about the ratings system.. I know where you’re coming from, but sometimes I might make a dirty joke or something, or talk about some subjects that if not read all the way through may get taken out of proportion by a younger one. Mine could easily be the dirtiest rating, but in reality, I think all ages can safely read it.

    Though, I do like a ban on porn.

    Greatest comment ever ending now

  • if i knew how to use it..i would deff.!

  • If a person flags or reports someone for explicit content, can the offender find out who the person was that reported them?

  • i think this sounds like a great idea

  • its cool, but if it were to work it better not be hassle-ish.

  • Kind of lame.

  • umm ok but i dont really understand the “footprint thingy”

  • Sounds good to me…

  • okay um no. this whole rating thing…ridiculous.

  • i like the idea as at my old high school we had problems w/ rumors and such being spread around, but as mentioned above, there are so many ways around the system(changeing your age, making up an e-mail or parental approval) and then the people who don’t give a darn on who reads what on their blog. 

    i admire the protection of our children but there are so many ways around the sytem i don’t think the internet will ever be safe.

  • this entire thing is pretty ridiculous.  the rating system is better than the flagging system, i guess, but the verification this is stupid.  I’m 18 years old, an adult, and yet I don’t have a credit card, and therefore am unable to verify my age on xanga.  that’s ridiculous and needs to be changed

  • Whoa!  I just got a D rating on a site I was checking and when it stated I had the option of changing my options for viewing such sites a very official-looking Xanga page popped up asking me to verify my Credit Card (which would not be nilled) including my security code on the card.  Needless to say, I did not supply that info, especially since I do not have premium on that particular Xanga and you would have nothing to veridy it even if it were legit.  Here’s the URL of the page that came up (assuming I got it right):

    cache:https://register.xanga.com/verify/

  • yes,yes,yes thats so awsome. i think its fantastic.

  • La La La. Sorry for the no eprops, I just did it so I can be the only one under here.. (in the no eprops area)

    Byes

  • la la

  • thank you for everything you guys do to make Xanga great!!

  • this makes me sad i renewed my premium.  :(   i don’t mind the ratings, cause the flagging crap didn’t work.  but i am 30 years old, and i shouldn’t have to put my credit card in just to be able to view some other person’s xanga. 

    i understand online blogging is getting a bad rap in the press for some other sites, but good gravy, this isn’t the way to go about it. 

  • oh dis is awsome..i dont knoe how to rate my xanga cus im a relly nice person but wen i get mad i jsut start cussing <– daz da problem..hmmm i guess i’l go with pg 13 =D hehe im 13 afterl all ah well ciaos!!

    ^^- da xanga team is awsommeee =DDD

    <33 chii-chan

  • It’s a nice idea, but gouw would you do parental verification?
    Having an email sent to an address is nothing.
    You never know who’s actually verifying it.

  • what bull…..

  • Feels like pandering. Weak people, weak.

  • Honestly this is just a total annoyance. I’m 19 freaking years old and yet I can’t view some pages because I don’t have a blasted credit card. This is honestly not a great idea. As if younger users can’t just get ahold of their parent’s credit cards and use it to “verify” their age. I suppose if my parents had a credit card I wouldn’t have a problem viewing any pages.

    And yeah a better question is when are you people going to do something about keeping unwanted users off my site. I’ve got lots of people blocked but they can still see my site. That’s not cool.

  • Hmm.. that was quite an eye opener. I immediately thought that since my blog focuses on God alot, “well of course, my blog is rated A for all ages.” But then I realized that some of my content might not be appropriate for kids and I dropped down to a C or a D, or maybe even an E! Because of the mental health issues I discuss.

    What a dilemma! This will be quite interesting.

  • this is GARBAGE!

    this makes me so mad i dont even know what to do with myself right now. i click on my friend’s blog, and SURPRISE! all of a sudden i need my ¿CREDIT CARD? to verify my age. what? that feels extremely invasive. im tempted to take my blog somewhere else where i can say what i want, and read what i want, without my age or maturity being questioned. assuming that most of those under 18 who are using xanga are using a computer/internet service that their parents pay for, shouldnt it be up to the PARENTS to use parental control settings for internet usage? those exist, you know. you dont need to punish those of us who ARE over 18 because parents do not restrict what their children do on the internet.

  • just get rid of this now. its a stupid idea.

  • 1984 anyone?

  • I think it’s a good plan..how will it work?

  • Ok.. wait..I’m reading other people’s comments..how does this flagging work? Does xanga put the flags up by key words or something? I have yet to encounter one of these said flags…someone fill me in!

  • so im pretty sure this rating thing is the stupidest thing ever…plenty of adults do not own credit cards…so how may we go about viewing sites that are deemed anything over a damned caution?

    id suggest a rethought, or alternative at the very least

  • im sensing a LOT of opposition to this dear Xanga Powers That Be…i find it very very suspicious that you need credit card information…first of all, dosent everyone hear constantly “your credit information+ internet = very bad idea”? and second, theres no way for US to verify that no one else, a scammer perhaps, or a identity theif could intercept our information as it is en route to your inbox is there? as i see it there are many many flaws to your plan and it should have been given more consideration. myspace is looking better and better every minute.

  • why the hell should i have to give you my credit card details just to view a site that is rated ‘adult’ when I am an adult and I am fully able to cope with what I see?  Think again about this new system because it really sucks.  I don’t need YOU to tell me what I can and can’t read.

  • I don’t think me or my friends who xanga would ever actually use the ratings, but the fact that your asking for a credit card number for age verification pisses me off. I know people under 18 who have credit cards or access to them, so your reasoning is flawed. I am actually considering quiting xanga all together now just out of principle.

  • this sounds like a good idea

  • Sounds like a nice idea, but in reality surely its just lip service to satisfy the authorities in the United States ahead of new legislation that will monitor community blogging sites like these.

    Xanga still seem unwilling or unable to respond to repeated calls by many users to have the ability to block specific IP addresses and users from viewing their sites. That to me is a serious security feature that is lacking. For example it could be used by a teenage girl to block some creepy man who is making her uncomfortable, or it could be used to prevent stalkers. Xanga is a great service, but some kind of access control like this is the biggest single thing that lets the service down in my opinion.

  • has anyone who is flaming the new system actually read john’s post? they are EXPERIMENTING. E-X-P-E-R-I-M-E-N-T-I-N-G. none of this is set in stone. there’s no guarantee any of the age-verification changes will be implemented in their current form. let them test the waters before you get all up-in-arms about it.

  • I think this rating system can be helpful. Thanks Xanga!

  • Hey! My name is misty! I agree on “a” because! Younger people need away to contact with friends across the world! besides messenger’s! xanga I think is a way for younger and older people to learn how to work computer …a skill they will need later in life! Well when will this start!?!?

    Pick “a” please! I promise I’m thirteen I just want some of my sister’s and friend’s to beable to have one

    comment me back

    misty

  • They may be experimenting with the age restrictions. but in the mean time us over 18′s are being blocked from our friends sites because we dont have stupid verification.

  • Two thumbs up, or in this case, 2 eProps. There are a few Xanga sites I’ve accidentally visited that I wish I could ‘unsee’. Thanks for the content advisories!

  • It sounds good, but by making ratings, I think it’s permitting explicit content. Are you allowing that now? Will there be any content that ISN’T allowed now? and how will people know the ratings before they get to the site. Can we set a block for our site to keep users with worse content from visiting our site and a block so we can’t go to theirs? Just random questions…I like the flagging of people  with inappropriate content. I don’t think you should allow it.

    ~ET

  • its ok i guess >.>

  • This new age verification is a stupid idea. Its asking for my creditcard, but you already have it, i am a prenium user! Well, not for much longer, i’m sure i’ll get a better service at blogger.

  • Not only is the ratings system well thought out (of course, it can only prove so with more use, but it looks good so far), the icons look really cooL!

  • Question.  Why can’t premium users have a few more blogrings than regular xanga users?  I understand you have to limit them, but can’t we get more as premium users?  Pretty please?

  • i see the potential for abuse of the rating system- esp if there are xanga members who may have some issue with another xanga member. people may be rated unfairly. see if you can work around that.

  • yea and how would you verify age? no way would i or most people be comfortable with entering credit card information…. using the ratings as a warning is ok but to have people go thru a verification process… that will be bad for xanga, i think

  • what does flagging do anyway?

  • For the rateings: Thats an awesome idea. Though i do mostly explicit content stuff through roleplay it would help alot of those who find said content disturbing or otherwise bothersome. I think its a great idea.

  • great work!!!

  • Given the fact that just this weekend I was reading over on news.com that the US government is considering a law prohibiting any teenager from accessing social sites like xanga, I think that experimenting with alternatives in hopes of short-circuiting that stupid law would be a good idea.

  • P.S. mozeik, there’s nothing 1984 about this. In 1984, we had the controlling bueracracy rewriting text books, changing the meaning of words, using cameras and microphones to spy on the population, and arresting people who fought back.

    Xanga hasn’t, as far as I’ve been able to determine, done any of this.

    What they’ve done is provide the means for you to protect yourself from lawsuits, given the last few years of court actions where schools, businesses, and parents have tried to blame online sites for the actions of underage defendants…

  • While I wasn’t exactly anti-flagging, I was never entirely comfortable with all of them either. But I like the ratings idea. It can protect the explicit blogger from complaints, as well as protect xangan’s from accidently browsing something they don’t want to experience. I will enjoy the freedom of browsing xanga without worrying about running into something explicit. While I don’t support censoring such sites, I DO want to be able to protect myself from accidentaly viewing them.

    As to age-verification, I don’t see that being all that useful in the end, because those that want to get around it will. But I suppose it’s better than nothing. Kids and teens can put themselves in danger so easily, and never even realize it. Maybe (maybe) a warning might make them stop and think. Here’s hoping.

  • it sounds nice, but there is a problem. i am 18, but i don’t have a credit card to prove my age. one of my subscribers rated their site as EX, and i cannot view the site itself, nor comment. so that is a bit of a problem to me.

  • I like the idea of a ratings system, but I disagree with its usage as a “net nanny” sort of thing. I think that users should be able to rate their own blog and set their browsing preferences, but I don’t think that anybody should be restricted by Xanga from viewing other sites simply because they’ve decided to rate themselves EX.

    1) Not everyone 18+ has a credit card or is willing to give Xanga their credit card information.
    2) Minors, if they really want to, can easily use their parent’s credit cards to “verify” their age.
    3) It is the responsibility of the parents, not Xanga, to monitor their children’s browsing activities.

    So, what I would suggest is…

    1) Keep a ratings sytem in place.
    2) Make the rating visible someplace on people’s blogs, in their profiles, alongside their profile pic in blogrings, etc.
    3) Make it all voluntary (default setting of “Unrated”)
    4) Get rid of the age verification, for the aforementioned reasons.

    So that’s just my 2 cents…

  • i think the rating thing is cool only so we can set what we do/don’t view. i dont think it should give you guys the control on it.

    the flag thing is amazing and is a very good. thank you!!

  • Giving my credit card number out on the web is NOT something I do. So that gives this program a thumbs down. Isn’t there any other way to validate age?

  • Sounds like a plan to me, I love the idea.

  • I was asked for my credit card information… Why?

  • i think this is a little silly, guys.  first of all, anyone of any age can find terrible stuff on the internet, if that’s what they’re looking for.  if you’re trying to foster a somewhat creative/literary atmosphere on xanga, i think this is a bad idea…kind of like going into barnes and noble and finding out ernest hemingway is rated R. 

  • Bann user “Sakamura”, he is an idiot who picks on people for no apparent reason.

  • excellent… n yeah.. we shuld be able to block xangarians frm viewing our sites ;)

  • excellent idea; much better than the flag system. 

  • I like the ratings you guys have come up with. They’ll come in handy on here…

  • You need to set up a system of stopping people from viewing our sites at all, and a system from stopping certain viewers.

  • What are you trying to sell to me again!? No wonder someone in the BXU told you to go suck their di**. You must think we’re all dumb as cattle. Ratings is just another form of censorship and net nanying. I played around with this ratings gig myself and found this to be true so don’t come and talk to me like you’re Fred Rogers and convince me it’s not. I hate it when someone tries to take a crap in my mouth and tell me it’s a chocolate sundae! Is this what you’re trying to do with us? Fine and dandy with the rest of the sheople here but it’s going to raise a HUGE stink with the rest of us. Especialy when you say you’re against censorship and you’re really not! Who are you trying to fool?

    ~His Most Insidious Dr. Ebola

    VIVA REVOLUTION –  !BXU!

  • Swell idea! :) I love it…what is there not to love about it?(although, I must say I liked flagging. Good idea there, too.)

  • i don’t understandthis sry comment back and explain

    <3caetlyn

  • I think this is great & highly necessary.

  • I would perfer this over the censoring over what I may post.

  • the ‘ratings’ system is a much better idea than the all sweeping flag system when it comes to material that’s just a judgement call, not actually illegal or defamatory.

  • I love the IDEA but not how it is currently in practice.

    Today, I went to a person’s site. (I go there regularly; she is on my Subscriptions list.) It came up with a filter page denying access but giving me a link to go change my settings, if I wanted to. (Problem #1: I didn’t ever SET my settings, so they should be OFF by default.) Then, I went to set them to “Do not filter” and it takes me to a verification page to verify my age. To do so, I have to have a credit card, which I don’t have–not because I don’t have money but because I choose not to live in a credit-using manner. (Problem #2.) So, those are the two flaws I see in this process.

    Again, the idea is nice, but the reality bites. I’d really like to be able to read my friend.

  • I think this would be a great alternative to the flags idea….

  • i think the rating system in combination with the flagging system will work really well. this way no-one is censored, but people who don’t want to see that type of content don’t have to. Good work! Now, can you tell me how to start a photoblog??

  • AWESOME!! :) since the subject of threats, etc, has been risen, isnt there a way to make an entire xanga private, except for the people on the subscriptions list? i remember seeing that one time, and i was wondering how to do it. :) thanks!!!!

  • btw, i dont like the idea of having to PROVE my age. im about to be 20; im geting a little tired of being treated like im 12. im not trying to be mean by saying that and ik it sounds like it, but thats just what i feel, and im sure many other new adults have the same opinion. just thought mebbe you didnt think of that. :)

  • good idea vry gdd idea

  • well, i thought that this was cool……until i tried it. I’m 20, and i don’t have a credit card. even if i did have a credit card, i wouldn’t give it out to a blog site or any other site just so i can veiw the content. you need a better way to verify age without using sensitive information, because the credit info is perfect for identity theifs.

  • GREAT idea!!!

  • You should make the last one just E instead of Ex.  It would make more sence.  Other than that great idea!

  • kool

  • Give everyone back their xangas!!!!!!!

  • I think that would be a really cool idea. I hate opening someone’s xanga only to discover that it is porn or ugly obsessions with death. Thanks for the great tools. You guys are much better then myspace!

  • I think it looks great. Thanks for keeping on top of things.

  • i think this is wonderful. but i think that porn should not be allowed on here at all. this is not for that. it needs to not be allowed. please make it stop.

  • sounds like sugar coated censorship to me

  • I think it is a good idea. There are too many young people on xanga. While they need a community to share their ideas, they also need to avoid the adult content sites.

  • Good move, if everyone uses it then I won’t have to worry about opening a xanga site with content I’d really rather not see.

  • that, my friend, is awesome.

  • My son recently was able to access a porn site on Xanga.  It was called Hot Horny Babes.

     I decided to let him have a Xanga site because I believed that you were filtering this type of entry.

    My children are no longer allowed on Xanga.  I am glad that you are making efforts to protect your customers, but for us, it is too late.  I am also telling my friends that the porn is accessible.  I know that you are in business, and it is a free country, etc.  but it saddens me that young people are being exposed to this type of internet danger.

  • that’s cool…not a bad idea at all…

  • So far I haven’t been affected by this, but I’ve had comments from people who have.  I think it’s a shame that I won’t be able to read the sites of people I’ve been reading for years, should they choose to rate their sites, simply because I refuse to give you my credit card info.  You already have this info, you got it when I signed up for premium.  There has got to be a better way. 

  • whoo xanga

  • Cool, you guys are doing an awesome job.

  • thats really kool for the ratings. you should do ur ratings like that. i think that it is pretty cool.

  • cool, but you should put the age of children, I would think under 10 but you ment 13, its rather vague. But a great idea

  • omg so gay

  • thank u for making flags, now my friend can finally warn jockers of her layouts!

  • I hope everyone who posted knows this is in response to this news clip I saw on TV bashing xanga… lol… I didn’t even know there was porn on here! Lol.

    Well I guess I support the ratings system if it shuts up those annoying parents who don’t want the obligatory job of looking after their kids.

  • A simple opt-in for age would be fine. Verification would be messy.

  • hey these are nice…

  • I think that this is a MUCH better way of handleing the flag system… thank you!!!

  • huh…i think it sounds ok, except that i thought nc-17 (explicit stuff) wasn’t even allowed – child porn is against the law, like you just said, and i know people who have joined xanga simply because porn and things were discouraged.

  • That sounds awesome guys.

  • Well, I can see how it might help keep younger users away from adult content, but many people lie about their age anyways….This system might not help things, just prevent the honest from doing what they want to do. Nice work, though.

  • yes, please

  • whaaaat?

    “parent or guardian approval required for minors”

    total crap.

  • I’m hoping you’re going to read these comments, because I need to ask, where are the flags about people lying about where they are from, and who they are?  It’s not really malicious impersonation, but this guy is a stalker.  He tried getting some of my friends’ phone numbers, and actually sent a postcard to one of their friends.  One of them says he is some 35 year old guy pretending to be a teen, and I don’t doubt her.  This guy is saying he’s from Toronto (in his posts, not his profile.) and his picture of his “girlfriend” is wearing a sweatshirt unique to a school in Michigan.

    This man needs to be looked into, I know some very impressionable and gullible people who would quickly give away their addresses and phone numbers if they were flattered enough, and he’s talking to one of them. 

    I would really appreciate a comment back, or perhaps preferably, an email.  This man really worries quite a few of us, and we don’t want anything to happen to any one of our friends.

  • word

  • Bad idea. Enough said.

  • LIBERAL CRAP
    damn retards dont know anything.

  • This is ridiculous, John.  Seriously, why would I, a grown woman, need help protecting myself from sites I don’t want to see?  Who in the world online needs help protecting themselves?  Who is this rating systems geared toward protecting–Xanga or its subscribers?

    This sounds like a parents feature, where they need to do something to their kids’ Xangas when they sign them up for one.  I’m being  generous here by assuming parents are even involved.  If I’m old enough to determine that I can pay for a Xanga with my credit card, I’m also old enough to know a xanga called “Cooters&Tooters” is probably about, well.  Cooters and tooters.  If you really instate this whole credit card thing, the only people you’re going to drive away are your paying subscribers.  I don’t know what legal issues you guys are going through, or how you’re trying to cover your asses, but trying to clean up the xangahood by instating this ratings system is not going to work. 

    This may be cyber space, but real world people play here.  And just like in the real world, there are crazy folks, nasty folks, religious folks, and goobers.  You can’t protect people from themselves.  If you are in legal trouble?  Be straight with us and say, “Man, we’re getting sued by pissy moms because their kids are going  to the titty sites and we have to show our legal team that we’re trying to do something.”  But please.  Help me protect myself against content I don’t want to see?  That’s just ridiculous.

  • Makes plenty of sense to me

  • this will affect freedom of viewing, i’m afraid.

  • i still haven’t figure out if i’ve been asked to “rate my blog”.
    i’ve reached an all time low on the bore-ometer i’m afraid.

  • lol i like how you guys put it up as A,B,C,D,E(x) instead of that boring way. =) nice work

  • The rating system that has been set up is a nice feature to have, however I don’t think asking users for credit card information to verify age is a good idea, for one not everyone has a credit card, and even so people have to be stupid to just give that out to any blogring site, even though it states you will not be billed, I wouldn’t trust any internet site of this nature to have that information. Is there any other way for users to get around giving out such information and still be about to verify age?  Is there no trust given to users when they first create their blog?

  • This is beyond stupid.
    The Xanga staff should not be regulating this, minor’s parents should.
    ‘Nuff said.

  • so thats what that new link in my public preview is, yeah, i am defenately the genius that clicked flag on himself to see what it did, but i do like the ratings idea

  • all about keeping illegal activity off xanga, but wonder about the ratings, when does protection become censorship?  Not totally against it since kids are are xanga too, I just dont readily embrace it at this point, we shall see.

  • Looks good, when do we start?

  • You guys don’t make a whole lot of sense (meaning people badmouthing flags and ratings).

    Xanga doesn’t have to ALLOW you guys to be on Xanga. It’s a privilege and not a right. Granted it, speech, is protected in the 1st Amendment. The creators and everyone else working on the Xanga staff could just as easily press a button and “Oops, ‘soandso’s’ Xanga Site no longer exists.

    Stop complaining, this isn’t 1st or even 2nd grade. Get a life. It’s a free service and if you don’t like it, then leave. Plain and simple. Got it? GOOD!

  • I like this idea much better than the flags. This feels less like censorship and I think this idea will go over much better with the masses!

  • Okay. I’m 19 years old. But I don’t HAVE a credit card (why the hell would I need one? and my friends? oh yeah. I’m the oldest of them. and my parents? with their online paranoia, I’m surprised we even HAVE the internet sometimes). But I can’t go on some site(s) because of that. Isn’t it Myspace or something that has ID card age verification? ID card or driver’s liscense would be so much more logical because even those with out a driver’s liscense usually have an ID card.

  • I hope you’re changing how someone is defined as being 18, because I don’t know about you guys in America, but us in England don’t necessarily get a credit card as soon as we turn 18… usually my driving licence is ID enough…

  • John, next time you give us this speech that you’re all against censorship and want to help… THEN DON’T ERASE MY LAST COMMENT ON YOUR PAGE AND THEN MAYBE YOU’D HAVE CREDIBILITY ON THIS!!! What do you call blocking certain people from seeing others work by the ratings system on Xanga? Call it for what it is will you? CENSORSHIP!!

  • I really think that Xanga needs to come out with another message with more information on the upcoming ratings system.

    There’s been lots of posts with speculations and guesses but no specifics as to how it’s going to work or be implemented has been put out by Xanga.

    I’ve seen mention of providing credit card proof for age verification mentioned in some users’ comments but this was NOT in the main Xanga post and this is just speculation by readers. Personally I don’t think Xanga would go that route, or they may provide an alternative method in addition if they did.

    As to adults that have mentioned that they don’t need to have their stuff filtered. I agree up to a point. I have done random surfing through Xanga and other sites like Xanga in the morning before I start my day and don’t really need to see crotch shots or see a profile picture that is a 7 inch tall guy wearing a funny helmet. Some folks’ sites revolve entirely around their genitalia, believe it or not. And yes I know I don’t have to visit them; which I don’t.

    As to minors. The ‘age of consent’ on the internet is generally 13. Under that most sites requite written parental permission. However if Xanga is to be open to sites that may not be suitable to those under the age of 18, Xanga does need to implement something to protect the users as well as themselves.

    As an aside here. Yahoo came out with their Yahoo 360 a few months ago. This is only for ages 21 and above. They’re not even trying to accomodate youth. At least Xanga’s making a huge effort to.

    More info needed on this Xanga!

  • yeah. good idea

  • y can’t i search my blogring hot_guys_and_girls under the blogring search

  • what would mine be rated?

  • Ya know, there is the problem of people trying to play jokes on each other, rating each others blogs “explicit content” to where no one gets to go to them.  I mean, it would be pretty cool if people weren’t… well, people.

  • I appreciate your work and your willingness to listen to our feedback.  I for one am tired of flags.  Ever since you debuted ratings, I have my site rated a “D” as there is some adult content and anyone under the age of 18 should seek parent permission before viewing it.  However, I still find my site constantly being flagged by people — often times, according to my footprints logs, religious folks who seem to want Xanga to eliminate all sites with adult content.  Each time I get flagged I have to sit and wait until my flag is cleared before my posts will show up again my blogrings.  Frankly, I’m getting tired of it.

    I also wanted to thank you for considering an alternative to using credit cards for age verification for rating or accessing “EX” rated sites.

  • i love this!

  • awesome!

  • Excellent idea!

  • It’s a great idea, however I’ve noticed the past few days some sotes asking for a credit card as age verification……If that’s the way it’s going then I’ll miss alot.

  • Call me Howard Stern, but I find it kind of annoying.

  • I like the idea

  • HEY;;I have a question quickly—— is there anyway to keep certain people OFF of ur xanga?? like so that they can’t veiw it at all?? Let me know please!!

    THANKS;;

    {COURTNEY_iS_MY_COWGiRL}

  • yeah, PLEASE let me know, too!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im desperate for something like this; ive had to shut down two sites already cuz of stalking, harassing friends of my ex-fiancee!!!!! PLEASE implement something like that before something rather pointless and offensive, such as ratings. please………… :)

  • dah!!! sorry!!! i forgot it wasnt the last one i jsut commented in response to……….. i feel REALLY dumb right now……… i was responding in the same fashion as a girl who asked to have something that blocks people from seeing a site AT ALL. thanks!!!!

  • dah! man, im just gonna stop commenting all together………. i feel REALLY, REALLY dumb now……….. someone just put me out of your misery…………. xD

  • *Sarcasm Mode On*
    oh! Oh! Oh! Thank you soooooo much for being my Mommy/Daddy/Nanny Xanga! I was incapable of taking care of myself. And for letting me pass off part of my responsibilities as a parent to you!
    *Sarcasm Mode Off*

    Honestly, are there any adults who take responsibility for themselves, and parents who parent their children anymore?

    Besides, the movie rating system you’ve modeled it on is flawed and extremely subjective. Blood, guts, violence? Give it a PG! Ten seconds of nudity? Rate that sucker R!!!

  • thanks so much for continuing to make xanga a better place to blog!

  • This seems like it will work better than the other thing.

  • it sounds like a good idea :->

  • Wow, thanks for the improvements! That’s awesome!

  • Ok for the people who are saying xanga isnt asking for credit cards as ID. try and set it up! is does it has get infomred

  • i think it is a great idea.  having it compared like that makes it easier having had that sysem ingrained for so long.  makes it easier to under stand.

    my only question is how do i change my rating? !!!!!!

  • i’m not too fond of the rating system. the whole “credit card” thing can easily be surpassed, b/c any kid could get his mom’s credit card and use the number.. plus the simple fact that my niece has a credit card, and she’s 13.

  • The rating system is nothing but bullcrap!!!!

  • cool cool cool=)

  • when will it start? its a good idea

  • great! now i can prevent more….unpleasant surprises….)=

  • woo hoo, awesome!

  • I love the idea….but what if your Xanga is a cross-between?? Like once in a while you may have a rated R post, but overall it’s g-rated, like about our kids’ lives?? I think some people will have difficulty deciding where their blogs belong on the system.

  • the idea of flagging for underage pron/users is fine

    but things like cutting and anorexia?

    fucks your problem?

    this is a public journal site, and many people chose to document their struggles this way. i fail to see how censoring these issues will do the community any bit of good.

  • The ratings system sounds excellent. I hope you implement it soon :)

  • gr8 idea

  • awesum

  • I think thats a little much. But its still a good idea.

  • I don’t see where people would see the rating. If it were next to the username or to the right of the About Me stuff, I think it would look really good in the blogrings. But anyway, I think it’s a really good idea!

  • *cries*

    And in addition to my last comment (about the flagging and whatnot), I’ve been finding a LOT of pro-ana sites in featured content!

  • hey john can u tell me step by step on how to set a background. people tell me yur helpful

  • is your system down, or is my computer on the blink? i’ve tried to do the age verification thingy, but no go…. error messages all over. whats up?

  • That’s a really cool idea. I have another site that I don’t use anymore and I used to get dirty comments from a girl I went to school with. I told her and she said that someone was hacking her site. I didn’t know I could shout my sie down, complain, etc. That would have been useful for those comments she left me.

  • This is the most idiotic idea I have ever heard of.  Are you going to rate my content on a first impression?  That’s pretty lame.

  • I have no clue wat u r talking about but i think that it would be a good idea because everyone else said it would im new on xanga so i shouldnt know all this stuff so someone help me out here wat is a  rating???????????

  • Sweet! how do u rate urself?

  • sounds like a decent notion.

  • i think its a great idea

  • ha ha ha that’s great

  • Very nice!

  • so long as it doesn’t dirty up our pages with a big ugly sign.

  •  This is so much better. I’ve went to some sites that I wish had had this ratings system before I read some stuff. However, I think you need a system that will automatically rate the entry when it is submitted, to cut down on users deliberately putting the wrong rating on. Like, if the system recognizes a curse word, give it the appropirate rating. I’m not even sure if its possible, but google does it. Or something similar.

  • cool

  • thats great..

    Hopefully that’ll solve some problems with whats being viewed.!!!

    Awsomeness

  • i cannot use it in options > safebrowse.

    it says SQL error .

  • great

  • how about you guys add REAL xanga blocking.  so you can stop specific users from actually reading your site!  just keeping them from commenting is not enough, I can still see that they’re reading it thanks to xanga footprints, and I don’t want that person reading my xanga!   xanga block was the first step, now let’s go all the way!

  • This is censorship at it’s worst.
    I’m a 14 year old kid who knows someone who has a blog (who has rated himself) rated D. because of this, i cannot see his blog.

    You should not be enforcing your will upon us. A simple page that briefs us of the content of the page should suffice. Please, people, let us make our own decisions. What may be offensive to you is likely not offensive to everyone, and i suggest that you keep the rating system to a simple reminder of content.

  • very cool i think it should be very useful so yea  bye

  • i dont like this idea. i think xanga should be free. its not a good system.

    except you COULD report child porn and stuff, but i disapprove of the rating system. ALOT.

  • nice idea!

  • i’ve also seen pro anorexia and several sites with suicide thoughts on them.

  • That is an excellent idea. Keep it up.

  • Wonderful idea – thank you!!

  • NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo
    the two lower case o’s were in there on purpose.
    they were symbolic for my fading hopes for the future.

  • I noticed that a credit card is required for age verification,if someone would like their settings to not be filtered.Have you at xanga,considered the fact that not all people have credit cards?Some of what was enjoyable for me was to browse xanga sites at random.I find myself prohibited from more sites every day because of my lack of a credit card to change my settings.Being more than twice the age of legal adulthood,I prefer to make that decision for myself,as to whether I view a particular site.My choice on how I choose to finance my purchases should not have an affect on what sites I can or cannot view.I would hope that an alternative way to verify ones age,other than a credit card,would be provided. 

  • Good idea, but to be honest I don’t think It’ll do much good.

  • what?

  • Good idea guys, but you went too far with it. All that should happen with the rating is that a page loads that gives you an explanation, briefly, of the rating and why that page has been rated such (pretty much what already happens) and then you should be allow to continue or go back. Blocking content and censoring people just because someone else disagrees with them is pretty big bs.

  • hahahah dude thats ssssssooooooo cool

  • I think this is a great idea and i too see the common purpose but it makes me wonder.. how will you keep out offenders from viewing say a 13 year olds site who may like to show off what she has? I’m not sure what kind of monitoring system you have.. i think an approval before uploading certain images of ones self would be useful too, there are alot of people who like attention and some people seem to make it easy for the perps to find them.

  • I agree with sullenxstars – I don’t have a credit card, and I’m almost 28!

  • *nods* I like it.

  • u guyzz r great 2 many ppls wit bad sites!now i will be safe..YESS!!vre cool

  • I don’t agree with this in movies or games, much less a blog where you voice your own opinions.

    It comes down to one simple option. They don’t like it, they can hit the block button like everyone else. Down with censorship..which is basically what the ratings system is anyway. Censoring, only in a more neat and snuck in format. It doesn’t belong. For the most part, much of these are journals..and people should have free reign to post as they like.

    Child porn is a big issue, but nailing them on here isn’t going to stop it. Breaking up the rings, and actually NAILING the big executives and high ranking officials that have partaken in it will. You know, doing something besides talking about it. I mean, great, you got a little fish..but what happens if some high ranking politician has a ring? What then? “Oh, well..sorry..the law really doesn’t apply as it might effect chain of command…” (Similar precedents were used in 1985, only about different but equally illegal matters.)

    This is a waste of time and energy. Put a dice roller for the chats..a bigger chatting community…music options..something that actually has something more to do with blogging functions or getting people together in a more positive way…you know, instead of “Oh, this person did something..so now..we need to punish all of  you too.”

    To heck with that. Secure is held in chains. Freedom is actually being free. Click the block button, or if you want to hype it..save the Flag feature simply for Child porn. I’d rather have something worthwhile than another overhyped bundle of restrictions with a smile stamped on it.

  • I think its cool.. just as long as long as there a not a limit as to your rating for your post.

  • >I llike the idea, in principle. How are we to know what our rating would be and will it be a ‘flag marker/banner’ on the site or a popupwhen you first have the page pull up?

    Peace

  • coolcool.

  • it’d be great!

  • The reason the rest of the clones are saying “WOW John, way Kewl Idea” is because they hadn’t realized yet that once they turn on their own ratings part of the page that they just blocked everyone else from seeing their own page…But they don’t figure it out for about a week or so when their hit counter is still on 0 visits.

  • Love it, but gotta be honest, I’m not participating b/c I don’t feel comfortable giving my credit card info in order to prove I’m over 18. Is there another way?

  • I had the same problem as shivanraptor, sql error. But figure it was heading to a credit card age verification site. I will not provide any information.

    I guess this new rating and flagging system can be the final motivation for many users to finally leave Xanga and go to places like MySpace, Tblog, Mindviz, Consumating, blogger, loudwire, ebloggy, livejournal, or some other place. No one needs or wants such censorship. This will kill Xanga.

    I’ve been happy with improvements made to Xanga up until now. This new one I see only as its “Closing Soon” sign. Too bad.

  • This is a much better idea than flagging someone for using a curse word and shutting down their site. I really don’t care for children perusing my thoughts anyway. Can’t stand the little buggers.

  • This is quite annoying. I am 19 years old, but I dont HAVE a goddamned credit card if thats how you want me to prove my age! Damnit, I know how old I am, my friends know how old I am, everywhere I go online I AM 19, and therefore am an adult. I dont like being restricted, and I like my freedom, thank you very much.

    I’m disappointed in this site now, this rating system is crap. No wonder all my friends moved to LiveJournal and MySpace. >.>

  • Wait, nevermind, I didn’t know you were just angling for our credit cards… How sneaky!

  • I think that’s a good concept… I’m thinking the rating guideline should be changed a little though. Whereas, I don’t necessarily post anything overly vulgar, I do post things with “language” content in them. In other words, I have a habit of cussing like a sailor, especially whenever I’m angry about something. However, I don’t post pictures with any sort of pornographical material in it. Saying that the Xanga is a mature site because it has language is a totally different thing from saying the Xanga is mature because it has pornography within it. Otherwise, it is a very good concept. I like the idea.

    One more thing before I go… I’m having an issue with some of my friends reading my Xanga. I thought it was because I have some “language” within my descriptions (hobbies and whatnot) so I edited them. Well, I was still getting from my friends that they couldn’t read my Xanga. I went in there and made sure that the check by everyone can view this Xanga (I’m on premium, by the way) checked and told them to try again. It still didn’t work. Then I told them to sign in as I clicked the check by only people logged in can view this Xanga (forgive me… I don’t remember the exact wording) and told them to try again. They did and still got nothing. I thought maybe it was the browser control settings to filter out the content but there’s more then one friend that cannot view the Xanga. And of course, there’s people I know that own their computer and have no filters at all and still cannot view it. I know it started happening right before I upgraded to premium so I don’t think that has anything to do with it. If you guys find the time, would you mind looking into that for me? I would really appreciate that.

    Loyal Xangian
    ~Amor vincit omnia : Toddimyre~

  • That’s a really great idea. 

    :)

  • I think that perhaps the new ratings system is being set up MORE because Xanga wants to give more freedom to those users that post explicit adult images on their site. In doing this they will also increase the amount of these types of users that they have I would think.

    Why do I think this?

    Because in the flagging rules it states that you are not allowed to post any explicit photos in a public post. You can only do this in a protected post, and only then if those on your protected list of members are all adults. Problems with this are you can only have 10 users on your protected list if you have a free account and there’s no way of proving, up until now of course, that those folks are adults. Another problem I suspect (don’t know this for sure and didn’t go try it) is also that any photo you post will also be in your photoblog, even if it’s in a protected post, since Xanga has not yet implemented protected photos. (Yahoo 360 has by the way…but they unfortunately don’t have protected posts).

    So why is it that Xanga now has a ratings category listed as “EX”, explicit, that can be applied to a member’s website that will bar anyone who has not provided proof to Xanga that they’re an adult? I think it’s because they want to allow fully adult xanga sites. Doing this will eliminate the problems mentioned in the above paragraph. It will also grant further freedoms to those users that wish to have grapic adult sites here.

    You will also notice, if you click the little “flag” button up on the top right of your screen, that only “underage nudity” is a flag with regards to images. You do not see an “explicit images” flag.

    I don’t have a problem with adult sites, but let’s get it out in the open as to the true motivations of ratings system and what “New Xanga” your goal is to have.

  • Thank you, thank you, thank you!

    [I like it.]

  • hehe wat a neat idea =)

  • i’am a pimp a.k.a J dog

  • it seems like a good idea – though would you have to rate yourself diff. if you use several choiced words here and there but often dont , would rating change day to day as you might have that 1 off day  – etc etc

  • Sweet

  • I think the rating system sounds fantastic.  There are too many young teenagers with Xangas who don’t need to accidently stumble across someone’s pornographic page.

  • Is there a way to flag blogrings?

  • Hey thanks for everything!

    Aly

  • Dear John/ Xanga team,

    After the privacy update
    I have problem logging in/out of my own blog. I have read the xanga hep.
    Anythingelse I should do?

    from confused finalechild/a xangan -.o::
    - etwas2005@gmail.com

  • I keep asking with no answer on here or by email are you going to continue to require a credit card to prove age and rate ones site. I do not want to give you my credit card you have no reason to have it as I use paypal to pay you and the page you were asking that on is unsecured. Would you please answer this question. I appreciate it very much, Judi Singleton

  • As a Lifetime Premium subscriber and Xanga supporter I am very dissappointed in your decision to censor xanga.  Although this xanga screen name is public, there are many others that are anonymous.  And by forcing people to give a credit card number to verify their idenity is against all internet free speech and anonimity ideas.

    I will not participate in the flagging system or the censoring system you have established and I truely think that Xanga and the community it has brought together will suffer because of it.  What’s next?  Turning in people to the police because they talk about how they smoked weed at a party or stole candy from a store?  This is a stupid idea, please reconsider it.

    The only people that will support this and use this feature will be religious fantaics which already piss off regular users by making pages decided to criticizing others and telling them that they will be punished and go to hell for their sins. 

  • this is cool, but shouldn’t the lowest rating be PG-13?  becuz u have to be 13 to even USE xanga, right?

  • I dont think that censoring xanga users will solve anything but annoying us and making those under 18 find a way to make it look like they are 18.

  • im don’t speak english…// la verdad es que no se hablar ingles y weno!!!
    tu xanga es bacan , si es que todo esto que escribo aparece en ingles quiere decir que hay un traductor aqui….
    chau aunque no ta conozco,,,
                          Josue(joshua)

  • Love it, love it, love it!

  • that is awsome!

  • When will they actually begin to take affect?

    Mine’s probably rated “d.”

  • I have trouble with the age verification as well. You have to find some way other than with a credit card to verify your members’ ages. I’m 18, but I’m not giving away my information just to prove it.

    If the ratings system was only based upon the ages the members provided when signing up, I wouldn’t have a problem with it. Yes, some underage users would be able to see inappropriate content, but that would be their own faults for lying. That wouldn’t be your problem. I think that’s the best option you can use.

  • stupid idea

  • ok. i changed my mind. i am 100% for this, so long as you can make everyone who believes in god, is straight, or has a vagina rate their site accordingly. that way i don’t accidentally go to one of their sites.

    hail satan!

  • fuck you xanga. go out of business, and die. i’m off to delete my site now.

  • WHOOOOOOOOOO   CARES  I DONT SO HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • It’s not a bad thought, but at the same time, who is anyone to say what is and isn’t such and such of a rating? What’s PG to one person is R to another. If you don’t like the content of someone’s site, then leave. If you’re scared of ever seeing something you don’t like, don’t agree with, would rather filter out, you’ve either got to get over it and do your best or lock yourself in a bubble.

    That’s just what makes sense to me.

  • “I dont think that censoring xanga users will solve anything but annoying us and making those under 18 find a way to make it look like they are 18.”
    Posted 6/1/2006 at 4:07 PM by itdontcostnothin
     
     
    And they’re right, too, you know.

  • As a protest against the new flagging and rating system I have flagged this very page that we are on as a “hatred site” and I encourge anyone against this system to flag it as well.

    Xanga with its new system is becoming a hatred site, against free speech, and anonomity.  Stop trying to censor the internet!

  • With ‘rights’ comes responsibility….good job! Great idea!

  • Great – I love it! Can’t wait to see it in action.

  • I have enjoyed some of the changes made to Xanga as of late, but I have to say this is a bit over the line.  I am 26 years old and I do not believe in using credit cards.  So of course I have no way of verifying my age to you people.  I have been happy with weeding out the minors from my site in my own way, and as a paying customer for over 2 years I am disappointed with this change. 

    Get rid of it.

  • And to clarify, I don’t mind the flagging system, that part is great!  Its the rating system that is horrible and not needed.

  • i  think   its  a  grate  idea

  • hey john, um i already put a lock on my site, bc our school was profiling and reading our sites so i locked mine and they havent been able to get to it, but i cant remember how to lock a xanga bc my friend shWeEt_stEaMy_GoOdNeSs or however she does her name needs hers locked

  • Awesome, love the idea!  You truly are a Xanga god among us mere Xanga-wielding mortals.  I give unto thee mad propths.  ^_^

  • I think this is an excellent idea!
    You know what else I think is a great idea? (I’m sure you don’t, so I’ll tell you)
    Allowing people who are not xanga members to comment on peoples’ blogs. Maybe something like “anonymous” commenting? I know that I have many friends who aren’t interested in having a xanga (have another blog that they’re happy with, or aren’t into the whole blogging scene…) but would love to be able to comment on my blog! I’ll tell you–I’m even considering switching to another host that allows non-user commenting….
    Just a thought…(that I didn’t know where else to put)

  • brilliant!

  • Taht’s AWESOME! <3

  • hello, i was just wondering if it was legal to impersonate a celebrity on xanga. because there was this girl today who was pretending to be ashley tisdale and she cussed me out for not believing her. well i was just wondering. c/b

    x333_jOsIe_333x

  • sweet dude you guys have the best job in the world you get to make xanga better than it already is you guys rock

  • 3 things::

    1;; like if someone’s like mad at u for like no particular reason and flag ur xanga, and ur site gets shut down. isnt that kinda unfair? cuz i kno some people that are teamin up to do that to someone i kno and stuff.

    2;; and is it true that if u use the word hate in ur entries, ur site gets shut down? cuz once i said i hate hating.

  • Sounds cool and seems like a great idea for people who could accidentally end up on an inappropriate site, but if someone really wanted to see stuff they shouldn’t, they could still get to it!!! But I think it’s a very much needed step in the right direction. Good work and keep it up!

    God bless, John

  • So since this ingenious plan was thought up.. how about blocking unwanted users from sites? Or blocking guests from sites? Or people who aren’t signed up with xanga?

    Sometimes ppl make up names just to view my page and that’s annoying. Something should be thought up about that as well.. it would be much appreciated. Like someone has to have their xanga for a few months or something like that.. Idk.. alot better screening of just BS names to view xangas.

  • Btw.. am I just blind, where did it say we had to pay with a credit card for this feature, anyways?

  • The rating system seems fine, but your age verification is in need of some work. Not all people have credit cards, and it’s a bit weird to require us to give you credit card information for verification either way.

  • To clarify, they require that you provide a valid credit card in order to verify your age in order to read any blog rated Ex.

  • Anybody else having problems with photo’s just disappearing off their site?  I just lost one, which is the reason I quit posting awhile back.  Now Xanga seems to be having the same problem again.  Sure seems that if I pay my fee I should be able to depend on these idiot’s to run a reliable site!!!!!

  • excellent piece of work …..

  • very good. buut there are just ppl out there who don’t care. or too lazy to care. and it’s the internet. you are who you say you are. who’s to verify your identity? good idea though.

  • and so it starts…

  • can you explain to me what a nudge is. thanks

  • The ratings system sounds good, and I like the icons you show there. Will they be at the top right or left hand corners of the window, or would it be a popup? A popup would be immensely annoying, but something that’s easily visible yet not in the way would be excellent.

  • I have no objections to a rating system, but I’m really iffy about having to verify my age with a credit card even if it isn’t billed.

  • Dude, freakin |337. I’m definatly in the ‘EX’ group, j/k not really, I’m more like… a ‘C’

  • So now all the kids will be searching for the list of Xanga sites marked “NC-17″. Instead of blindly stumbling onto one or two, they will be able to get a comprehensive list of all of them. Cool.

  • I don’t know. I asked but they never answered my email. I think it’s like a jab with your elbow but only over the internet, like sort of a “hey you!” dunno.

    I’ve an idea! I’ll nudge you. then you nudge me. You nudge someone in their profile.

    (this is gonna be so cool! can’t wait!)

    .
    .
    .

  • Great idea!

  • okay nudging didn’t do anything for me.

    it said… okay you nudged tiffany. big deal.

    okay…
    sorry folks for briefly interupting all the bitching.

  • I’m going to have to agree with Jeeves777

    If you said you’re looking into Google’s rating page ways…why not do it then?

    And you know those movie/video game ratings never work. It’s only a small obstacle for those of us who are actually smart enough to know that nothing is real in games or movies, and don’t try to apply it to life, because you die, or go to jail…or get sued. For those of us who don’t…well, they get around it anyway and the movie theater/video game company gets sued for not living up to impossible standards.

    It’s a downward spiral of sheltered lives and relying on society to care for children, so parents become obsolete and can spend more time at work. So the child sits in front of the glowing TV/computer screen, only having their curiosity raised even higher when the R rating flashes across the screen and the screen goes blank. Then they feel a need to explore, we are humans…that’s what we do, and learn more about what is forbidden or unable from reach.

    No one listens to parents anymore. The FCC and extreme forms of censorship take care of the job of having parents actually sitting down with their children and explaining the many things in this world. They’re going to find it out sooner or later, and sooner seems like the lesser of two evils to me, because then they are not starved for freedom and eager to discover what was forbidden so many times before.

    If parents and people took the time to show their children the “bad things” in life, maybe then, the world wouldn’t be such a “bad place”.

    Education and proper growth is chipping away like old paint, and no one has the time or energy to replenish it.

    This message was brought to you by: My rantings.

    lol.

  • your ratings will probably end up being a joke in the end.
    kind of like how people list their “metro” as sexual.
    everyone will be “explicit.”
    and if not, then they, like me, will only use explicit content to keep fourteen year old stalker girls off their site.

    it just wont be very accurate, is all.

  • That’s a pretty good idea – and the templates aren’t too bad looking.. – It’d be nice if we could change the colors, though..

  • An excellent idea!

  • I have a suggestion… you should have a “people on right now” thingy….so ya know when your bored and wanna comment people that you know will comment back cuz they are just as bored at 2am….than yeah…you can tell who is online.

  • that’s great

    <3

  • ratings r definatly kewl! so long as my swearing does not get censored or my page wont show up?!

  • ok i think the verifacetion system is a little to uncalled for, asking for credit card info, what if you do make a transaction, there is nothing we can do for we gave you the info, i say yall should change the verifacation system.

  • i dont think i noe u

  • The users “noonelikesyouloser” and “peppermint69″ have been harassing the user “crossfire2020″ endlessly. They’ve been leaving messages calling her fuckface and whore among many other hurtful and offensive words. I’ve flagged them but nothing seemed to have happened yet. I am appalled by their messages and “peppermint69″ has been impersonating “crossfire2020″ on her xanga page. Their posts have really been insulting and should not be allowed on Xanga. I want to say something to them but I’m scared that they will leave horrific messages on my xanga as well.

  • It’s a good idea.

  • kool! that’s a great idea XD

  • it is a nice function….
    but is it useful of us? I can’t give comment now at all
    maybe someone need…
    thx~

  • WHY DO YOU NEED ME TO SUPPORT YOU?!?!?! HUH?!?!

    4RM YA RUGGED ASS INDIAN GIRL!!!!

  • thats cool, i’ll probably be in a D maybe a C if im lucky

  • Very Interesting.  Not we’re going to have to tihnk about our past and future posts and where we fall under.  Would be nice if we could do both, per “site” and also “entry”.  ie general posts are All ages allowed but an odd post maybe termed caution.  Just by €0.02.

  • only thing i dont really like about this is that to verify you are 18 or older you must enter a credit card number. even if im not going to be billed, i dont want to enter my credit card number

  • now people will watch what they put on xanga. nice…

  • i’m not 100% sure about any of this…sure, if someone is posting porn, then that person should be investigated but the idea that anyone can come to your xanga and complain if something offends them is rather fascist, don’t you think?…there’s a very fine line between debate, arguing and threats and considering it’s the internet and there’s not an 100% chance someone can find you out and literally hurt you, i think the whole ‘death threat’ thing is impossible to ever happen…unless you’re giving your street adress and when you’ll be home, it’s all nothing but some angry person using you as a resource to unleash their anger towards…but i’m sure my saying this and my hatred of technology and the modern world is going to get me kicked off by you, xanga…right?…so thanks for following the way of hitler, so more people can waste away with cell phones and reality tv…

  • whatever it takes to end the “space people”

  • Shall we say: retarded?

  • Carry on playing mummie knows best. Then instead of being here and saying ‘myspace sucks’ we can migrate to myspace and say ‘myspace sucks, and so does xanga.’

    And when someone else starts up, and doesn’t want to play mummy, we can all migrate to them.

    Leave things alone. People want freedom, not more regulations. Xanga is user-friendly and easy to navigate, so leave it that way. You will not prevent ‘innapropriate content,’ whatever that is. There are too many ways round.

  • I hope that this is not gonna affect me from posting my content and reading others my age just cuz I am 16 (almost 17). Come on, no censorship in that respect.

  • Also, I may have missed something, but I didn’t ever read anything about a credit card verification, just that they would have a verification system. Am I missing something? And BTW, I have a Visa Checkard so even I could appear to be over 18 just from my cc billing info.

  • I think that this a GREAT thing to be doing.  Thanks!

  • thtz a gd idea
    fully support!!

  • Nice work xanga. Nice work, indeed.

  • This is a great idea…but I don’t have much faith in how it will work. People lie online, all the time. What’s more, the majority of Xanga’s don’t get visited by strange people all the time. Sure, they’res the occasional browser…but most of the content on a single person’s Xanga is read by their friends, subscribers and blogrings. Also, what’s appropriate for some, is not always the case for others. So technically, this idea will just hit the floor. People will lie or cheat with their age, or just completely disregard it. It was worth a try, but the true reality is that it won’t work.

  • great idea!  get start on that asap! 

  • hey john what the flip are you up 2?!?!?!

  • I’m curious how we’d get the ratings to work, but I think its’ a GREAT idea! GOod job working to make xanga safer for everyone!

  • Yo the fact that xanga dosn’t have any rating system or anything is what makes it so cool. As long as you don’t make any death threats you can say what ever you want and the worst that can happen is you get blocked from that persons site. And that gives xanga a really laid back style that all my friends love about xanga. That makes xanga so much better than any other site, the ability to yell and say almost anything. People use xanga at their own risk, there are plently of sencered sites on the net allready, those concerned can just go there.

  • hmmm, ratings idk, but you guys have very good ideas. Could you explain more about the footprints to me?

  • You’re forgetting about our constitutional rights to freedom of expression. Idiots.

  • when r we going have a music box?

  • Cool…We can use these as banners??

  • ii think this new thing cool …. ii guess its more “safe” i dont know but in general still anybody can iew but ii still think its cool ……… ♥
    m,

  • thats really good

  • Great

  • ya but how do you change what you want to view? or is that determined by your age?

    ^ seems it must be from previous comments

  • I understand why the team is working on this. But I don’t know if it will work. Most people on here don’t care what they post or what they see. It’s a very vocal minority, that get easily offended, that make a fuss about content. And that same minority won’t be satisfied with warning labels. Meanwhile all the rest of us with enough common sense to avoid stuff we arn’t interested in are going to have listen and deal with slowly having freedom of expression carved away. One little section at a time. Because when it comes down to it, the ONLY person qualified to truly know what is (in)apropriate for an individual to see, is that individual. And there will always be people who will bombard the system with complaints because they are offended by a topic that is everyday conversation to other people.

    Besides, when “Kathy Conservative” goes to a xanga site titled “My Sanctuary to Satan” and then complains because she was offended at ”having” to see descriptions of this person’s religious thoughts; *MY* question is what was she doing visiting a site that she knew was OBVIOUSLY going to offend her?

    We need more common sense, not more regulations.

  • P.S. Congrats though on making an effort. That’s an improvement over other companies that either don’t CARE about customer satisfaction, or that never really get around to fixing a problem.

  • Perfect!

  • This is a great Idea keep it up guys!

  • ((shy smiles))u have a nice layout.

  • o,I’,m Angel.

  • fuck u bich

  • Wow: this is almost as meaningless as the terror alert system.

  • On the FAQ page, it says that we can set the level of content to one “that we feel comfortable with”. Well, in the interest of experimentation, I discovered that it wouldn’t let me set my content level to “D”, despite the fact that I feel comfortable with the content. I am restricted from that content only because I am not yet 18. Now, tell me that’s not censorship.

    Hey, anyone that wants to access “D” sites, but isn’t 18, just log out, and click the continue button when the rating screen shows up.
    Xanga, if you really want to opress us, you gotta do a better job than this. Come on now.

  • um….what about this age verification? is that just asking our age or is there proof required?

  • I HATE THIS THING NOW I CANT SEE SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS PAGES CUZ IM NOT 18 N THEY ARENT EVEN OVER 18

  • Are you still going to use credit cards for proof of age and to be able to rate our sites please answer this is about the tenth time I have asked. Judi

  • very interesting………….

  • thats good becuz jive_daddy wuz harrasing so i flagged him but, it got taken care of but if the program is better than ok kool

  • Sweet! It’s also kinda snazzy just to put on the site too!

  • i_love_transvestites

    ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ this user is leaving me nasty coments about my only 13 year old sister and her best friend. as if that didn’t offend me enough after returning to my site i notice there was another one below in which she said personal and disgusting things about me. *admittedly i threw choice words back* this user is anonymous and is saying things about younger children. how can i get ahold of someone?

  • yeah u rock?

  • i dont like that idea. at all. seems like it will limit access to blogs far too much.

  • i think its a good idea.

  • i think its a good idea

  • hehe! cool

  • come on, this is just Xanga.
    taking things a bit too seriously, eh?

  • yup! u’ve got my vote..

  • ¸Õ¤U

  • good move.:)

  • OH WELL SUPER POOPER

    LONG DONG LEGE STRIKES AGAIN

  • I am sorry but I do not like the fact that you guys have to get our credit card number in order to find out our ages. Kids could use their parents cards and lie about their ages. Also, I am a premiun member and so you should already have my credit card info on file which should exempt me from adding it once again. There are people’s sites that I can not check out because I refuse to do this.

  • Like oh my gosh you are such a kidder!!!!

  • Great idea, gonna need lots of maintenance though.

    Will it actually prevent users from accessing sites?  and does the entire page get blocked (hypothetical situation: blog is rated EX and user trying to access page is too young) or is the label only for individual entries?

  • How does one get to nudges, inviting friends, chat board, all those new features. I find it by accident sometimes. I don’t like your rating system because as I have said before if you make us give a credit card number just to rate my own site then that stinks. I won’t do it too many other places to blog to do that. Judi

  • sounds to me like a better idea than flagging

  • i envy your eprop count… =]

  • So I have this little thing on my page that asks for my CREDIT CARD INFORMATION as age verification…to which I say what the hell, and no way. I’m sorry, but that is a horrid way to verify ages. I would not give out my credit card information unless I am making a purchase, which I will not do for this site. Change your policy, and stop censoring. I am 20 years old, and I do not even HAVE a credit card in my own name. So what then am I to do? Very flawed indeed…

  • sounds like a god idea, but people may misuse it. 

  • bitch son of a hoe

  • If people show sex acts you could say “this is sexually explicit” and have that as the only “disclaimer”.

    But you know you’re a free entity, you can censor all you want just like any other Nazi fascist out there doing the Jimmy Cracker and the GOP Loves Adolf Hitle trip — don’t forget he was Time Magazine’s Man of the Year I think it was 1939 — and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

    Rendering a fundamental Liberty subject to majority rule is truly the worst of the worst and possibly the greates insult a really knowledgeable US of A citizen could ever receive

    So what are you going to do about pictures of Michaelangelo sculpture and like that? Ban certain age groups from being able to see it?

    Maybe you ought to ask everyone for their PassPort

  • Sounds good. I just don’t want a big label on my site either.

  • the flagging program is pretty cool!! i like it cuz someone has been jocking mine, and a few other people’s layouts and then claiming them as her’s and accusing us of jocking her!! and she’s been threatening us and stuff!! anywho…..

    ((ps)) im patiently & eagerly awaiting a way to keep unwanted users off of my site, too!!

    Got Violence??

    <3KeLLy<3

  • I’M ON THE LIST NOW! WOO HOO

  • the chart thing with the ratings looks pretty sweet.

  • I think it’s a good idea!

  • I’m with the people who don’t like it. It is a good idea to have a disclaimer, but making people verify their ages? I’m sorry, but I personally would just find another place, like LiveJournal to use. It’s too much of a hassle. Besides, I’m against censorship. Disclaimers, certainly. Censorship, definitely not.

  • I honestly feel that the rating system is very limiting. I approve of your fight against such things as death threats and child pornography, but if you guys are to enforce this rating system it could potentially ruin Xanga. You force people to give a credit card number to prove their age, which a major population of us may not have. I think it would be better reduced to a warning message, informing the visitor of the risks of visiting the site and thats it. I had my site raised to D figuring that would be an appropiate ranking for it, but found out that my site could not be visited by most of my readers, so I lowered it back down to C. If you want this rating system used, you need to make it less restrictive, and open to anyone. You don’t see google making you enter a credit card number to turn off Safe Search do you? Thats my opinion at least. Keep up the good work Xanga.

  • awesome! you guys are great!

  • UR FUckin gay

  • I like it. But it’s a little controlling, would Xanga cross-ref the age of the person viewing and say, “NO!”, or are they going to be there for our reference and our reference only?

    thanks, bye

  • I think that the rating system is great.
    It wouldn’t be heeded by a lot of people, but I think that having a high rating would be a badge of pride for some people (me).
    However, I am not ok with the age restrictions.
    That should be up to parents to decide what they want their kids to see, not Xanga.
    There should be a warning that comes up before the adult only pages, but not a system that keeps users from viewing the pages if they are under 18.
    Age verification is pointless, and unnessecarily limiting.
    I value my freedom to choose, and I am not about to have them cut off without saying somthing.
    Once again, thanks for re focusing the flags.
    Many were quite pointless.

    Jessy Woods

  • Yes you have nailed it on the head XANGA this is exactly what we need for people who don’t want all of this and I personally agree with everything about it!! Keep up the good work all of my support is behind it!!

  • useful.
    I am posting medical stuff on my site, and sometimes use clinical words that filters catch and deny service.
    (for example I have a post on female circumcision, which I discuss because I saw such patients when I worked as a missionary in Africa. )
    Also, young teens might not read medical stuff appropriately. It’s a pg 13 site, but not porn or sexually related.
    Personally, I hate to go to sites and find x rated stuff on them, or very vulgar language, when I expected something else. Warn me. I’m a grown up. Truth in Advertising.

  • I am not. happy. that I cannot get to a site I am subscribed to without entering my credit card info – I already did that once when I purchased Premium – a choice I am beginning to regret.

  • Wow, out of all these blog websites, Xanga is by far the safest and smartest.

  • that’s a cool idea, when does it start?

    suggestion:
    i think that you should have a photo editing tool on the weblog entries. it would have  a thing where you can put text on it or you can crop it or change the color. it would be a really great idea in my opinoin.

  • uhhh…there a xanga that steal a person identidy http://www.xanga.com/AsHlEy_______TiSdAlE their using her idenifty but it not her  u can tell cause the pic is from tv

  • Hey this is awsome! thank!

  • ugh this is just gonna be another hassle isnt it

  • WHEEE.
    You guys are the best.
    I have a suggestion for your next cool update.
    Letting users have control of their comments after posting them! I had another username before and I was CONSTANTLY leaving comments twice :-p.

  • nice

  • Excellent idea. Keeping Xanga a safer place to be for all.

  • HOOORAY FOR JAEGERMEISTER!! RAAAARRHAAHHAHA!!!!

  • Thank You! Thank You!

    ~Dr. Ebola, Freelance Gynecologist.

    RAAAR!!

  • woah….sweezeet right there, that’s cool

    Gary

  • i think this is a good way to aggregate the content behind blogs. who is in charge of assigning a blogs’ rating?

  • Ok, i am having a big problem that has been going on for almost an entire week now John, and maybe you can help me out on this one. Someone has Hacked my Xanga site (xanga.com/rashido), changed the password and default e-mail address. My computer still puts me on under basic control because the cookies have me saved as logged on. I have been able to delete the libel post made about me using my own name. I sent xanga a e-mail stating that the account was hacked on Tuesday, May 30th 2006 and still have not received anytype of response what so ever. Two days ago the background picture was also changed to homosexuals engaging in pornograpic poses and put up as the background. Thats to the rating system i have been able to put my site to an explicit rating to protect others from having to view it. My problem is, almost a week has gone by with no resolve. I have dropped all of my mail filters in hopes of trying to get an e-mail from xanga and still no resolve has come. Now i will try asking you for some help about this matter. Please e-mail me something in reguards to this topic, i am going out of my mind. Krakan@msn.com

    ~Colin

  • pretty good£¡

  • this is a waste of time i do these things all the time what am i suppose to do if i can’t tell people i’m gonna kill them and not do it whats the deal i’m playing around with the’re heads.this is just plain stupid i guess i gotta go to myspace.this is why you lose people to myspace because you making this place a god damn shit hole.you guys gotta do better shit.like stop being pussy’s.fucking ass’s.i’m going to myspace to do everything else.and i’m gonna give some advice to other people myspace is better.

  • excellent

  • I have a bit of a problem, but I’m not sure how to fix it.  I would like you’re help, if you could.  I have a bit (or rather very big) problem with a girl who has been reading my site and copying them onto hers, as her own writing.  I found out about it through xtracker, and we…exchanged words.  The prolem stopped, but but on a routine check of her site, I found out that she has been putiing my writing on her myspace.  She shut down her xanga the_white_hawiian, but continues to visit my site without being signed in, and most likely is still stealing my writing.

    I’m not saying I’m the greatest writer, but this is a great violation.

    I have to ask, is there any way that I can stop this?

  • good idea ;)

  • sounds interesting.

  • child porn and death threats, fair enough, but those are a long way away from the supposedly one advantage of the internet freedom of speech and by removing a lot of the Eating Disorders related sites, youve just encouraged a lot of people to leave xanga for myspace or livejournal. i hope somebody actually reads this.

  • This is great, but what if you’re not consistent with your entrys?  Like one could be rated a, and one could be rated d, for example?

  • cool

  • fab idea you guys….keep it up!

  • i think this is a great idea… however, when I tried to input my info to prove i’m over 18… it says it’s invalid and it’s really aggrevating as i don’t want to be content protected, since i’m an adult.  Think you should look into that! 

  • sounds good

  • Sounds great. I’m eagerly awaiting it.

  • Hi John..sounds odd though..to rate your OWN site…I mean if you have someone who abuses their own rating…well, I don’t know…anyway..I know you mean well..and it sounds like a good idea overall…is it mandatory..? Or do we opt in….mine is G but I have another writing site..and my next story I am going to rate higher only because I feel it is more adult content as I will be talking about my past and things..well,.good luck with this…hope it works out and protects those who need it..and there are many who do* thanks for your efforts…take good care…Lee

  • there’s a site i want to flag, but bc of this person’s layout, they’ve taken the flagging option off.

    how do i flag the site?

    (in this particular case it’s http://www.xanga.com/AnaDancingAlone. a pro-eating disorder site. but this problem is with a lot of sites that take the flagging option out. you may need to find a way to override that.)

  • That is just going to make people want to go on bad sites more

  • take it off

  • <TABLE id=HB_Mail_Container height=”100%” cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=”100%” border=0 UNSELECTABLE=”on”>
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    <TD id=HB_Focus_Element vAlign=top width=”100%” background=”" height=250 UNSELECTABLE=”off”>

    that sounds so much better than censoring, thanks you guys are awesome, can you please show me how to lock my freinds xanga? i forgot how to do it and she wants hers locked… she doesnt have and profainity on hers and neither do i we just dont appreciate our schools snooping through our personal stuff…. ya know….

    please and thank you!!!!

    katie

    <TR UNSELECTABLE=”on” hb_tag=”1″>
    <TD style=”FONT-SIZE: 1pt” height=1 UNSELECTABLE=”on”>

  • thats gay

  • This is cool. =)

    I love Xanga.

  • i think the rating system is a much better way of making some sites safe for under-18s.. i am happy to rate my site as expilcit even though theres nothing porn-wise on there, however, the credit card thing is a bit rough.. shame there isnt any other way to verify age!

    overall, i think the ratings system is better than the flag system.. good work :)

  • NICE. ^^

  • this ROX MY SOX OFF!!!!

  • well mayb u shouldn’t let there b adult content at all i mean myspace let them do that so let themoin there obviouisly if u don’t want for us to c the adult content “us” as in tenns or lil kids then no one should use it most will lie about their age or mayb some1 may b lokkin for folks 2 talk 2 and may sc stuff they ain’t wanna c the idea won’t work without atleast 3/4 of the members lying! : P

  • sounds gay to me.. but that’s my opinion… I don’t like to agree with people…

  • That is very responsible. Good job.

  • hey john or whatever. i didnt read this, but i have another issue!!! its not letting me sign out of my xanga site!!!!!!!!!!!! it WONT let me!!!!! how do i sign out?!!?!!?

    love,
    confused

  • Credit cards are not an acceptable form of age verification.

    Firstly, you have not business having my credit card information unless I am paying for something.

    Secondly, it’s usless anyway. If an underage person is determined to look at stuff, they will just get a credit card somewhere.

  • thats cool!!!!!! now my parents will no if i can look at this

  • This is a great idea…If up the good and hard work!!!

    LiNz!!!!

  • nice addition.

  • WHAT!!? And have this ratings system wreck my Double Penetration Videos and the Burger King Dead Celebrity Pics?? What the hell John! Come on now!! The Popes gonna get pissed! Viva Revolution!

    DAMN NAPOLEON!!

  • gayyyy but keep ah well

  • Nice ,Cool

  • sounds good

  • how? where? do you rate someone elses site? I have only found the flags.

  • i dont dont think its a good idea becase all those lil frends wont get toalk to thire frends

  • moniet thats called a protected post. You can already control who does/does not see the content of your site.

    I think the rating system is much better than the flagging system. But still not really necesary. In my book, anyone who is browsing other peoples blogs is looking for trouble anyways.

  • It seems to me, that with a rating system, it would send younger users directly where you don’t want them to be- A great big flag saying “here is one you should not see”, and the stampeed happens. Also you know very well that MOST of the children on the site have lied about their age, so will it do much good?

  • VERY good thing.

  • Well, first of all, I don’t like the idea of witch hunts in American society.  Everybody is innocent until proven guilty in our system.  Second of all, there are a lot of Nazis and skinheads and racists using Xanga to advance their platforms, who are abusing this blog engine and should be shown the door.  Third of all, there are a lot of stupid assed slams going on, on Xanga, that the members need to self-police and get the active players to desist from this kind of conduct.  And last but not least, there really are a number of sites here with people under 16 years of age talking about all kinds of sexual acting out with multiple partners which I have my doubts as to whether it really did take place, and I mean a 14 year old isn’t having an orgy with 2 12 year old girls and a 17 year old boy when some kid’s parents aren’t home, just like that…it’s not believable…so I think that some police departments are trying to run sting operations to try to catch pedophiles, on here, and I think that they are probably wasting their time, but I don’t really give a d***.  It’s always nice to read about how there are some high school kids somewhere who are having more of a life than I did when I was their age, and to suffer in silence as they gloat about their orgies and conquests.

  • asking for our credit card info to verify our age?  how offensive is that?

  • This is very COOL…thanks Xanga!

  • ok… kool

  • Might I suggest a flag for “misleading site rating.” I have heard a few people saying they might rate themselves below what they should.

  • So what was decided about the flagging for self harm situations?

    You had a lot of feedback on that.

    I discovered many people were just not aware what self harm *actually* means, and I took some mild flack for explaining it.

    That was weird.

    I have done it, and I therefore have a good understanding of  why I did it and what I was thinking when I did it. My psychologist has  also explained to me the many reasons individuals do this.  Quite why I got some flack for explaining objective facts about self harm to people who had NOT done it and who only had their subjective ideas about it, indicates not everyone wants to learn.

    The Ratings system seems to me to be  OTT.

  • boykevin’s xanga site has been harrasing me by sending spam and putting stuff on my C-Box like “suk my dik” and “fuck you”. I was gonna try to flag him but because of his layout, there is no Flag button. Can you please flag him for Harassment.

  • My opinion.. just leave xanga how it used to be.. all these changes are beginning to bother me.

  • that sounds like a stupid idea cuz’ i don’t get it???

  • I used the xanga footprints and realized that some non-xangan from Calfornia has been looking at my site. I’d rather not take a chance and be tracked down on the interent, so I blocked my site from non-xanga users, and protected any post that was revealing. I repeatedly have checked and the dude(ette?) keeps trying to look at it, but either gets the xanga block page or http://www.xanga.com/rss.aspx?user=conversesneakers that lets them read my entries. Is there anyway to prevent them from getting to this page or something?

    Please Help ASAP!

    ~ConverseSneakers

  • this is not that useful
    1st, people can change their age on the net
    2nd, i m over 18 ^^v

    we need a SUPER POWERFUL tracker

  • I would LOVE to have no one under the age of 18 allowed to view my Xanga. Personaly, I use “bad words”. If people hold that in offence, please don’t view my page. I have “Left wing” opinions. If people hold that in offence, please don’t view my page. If “free thought and speech” offends you, please don’t view my page. How far are you gonna go with this? I’ve been here a long time and the ONLY reason I stay is because I’ve been here for a while. I’ve seen Xangans come and go, and I’ve noticed a LOT more, shall we say, “obtuse-ness” among users lately. If your going to censor people, please make it simple. If your all flowers and sunshine and blah blah blah teenieboper bull…crud, then have your “under 18″ section. For the rest of the world, have the 18+ section. I’m WAY past dealing with “censorship” in my online dealings, and I’m sure others would love some of the alternitives out there. I have many, like I said, I’m here for nostalgia. Premium? I wouldn’t pay a damned cent for this “service”.

  • very good idea! a few of the flags pissed me off immensley, but this is great. i am happy!!!

  • I would like to see other blog sites experiment with a similar concept- i see way too many students looking up what I would call “EX” content on the other blog sites, and i have to enforce the rules on that at my workplace. An MPAA-themed ratings system that also allows others to cross-rate the content and makes things easier would be a great advance for everybody involved, and would make my job easier.

    I would like to be able to use the rating system so I can keep unwanted users (those with an EX rating, in particular) off my site.

    Finally, the color scheme of the MPAA’s ratings need some work- I would like to see them modernize their rating system to reflect the new fonts and colors that are available out there.

    You guys have done a fantastic job with it. I hope the other sites are watching this, and keep up the great work!!!

  • Why do peeps bother telling us this

  • Seriously i idnt get a word u just said

  • I love it!

  • Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

  • so, what’s NEXT?????? Will REQUIRE a credit card to confirm your age? so, ppl who say LOVE this idea…gotta THINK 2WICE… r u willing to disclose ur perosnal ID on WwW???

  • Will there ever be a time when Xanga allows comments from non-Xanga members?  And what about archiving and/or tags?
    I love Xanga and don’t want to leave so I’m hanging in there and waiting anxiously.
    You guys are great.

  • hey

  • good, now i wont have to worry about people complaining about my use of language in some blogs. I like the Xanga Users only Feature, but I have yet to use it.

  • hey so like this has absolutely nothing to do with this topic but what the hell is a nudge?

  • How is this nice work, I”m sorry but I somehow think this will cause somewhat of a decline in xanga. Maybe.

  • Sounds incredible! I’m up for it!

  • Good idea!

  • I am narc-ing out http://www.xanga.com/I_Work_For_Thin
    despite my conscience telling me not to do so.
    Fuck you and your censorship.

  • I’m not sure if I understand this correctly, but it looks like you’ll be able to pick the ratings for other users’ content, and I guess it’ll average it or something. My only concern with this is the groups of people that will very likely rally and invade people’s Xangas to increase their content to a high rating just to bully them. There needs to be some way to stop this from happening. Maybe you can only be rated by people in your subscriptions or blogrings or something.

    This may already have been implemented and I just misread it. If so, ignore me.

    Other than that, great stuff; I love it.

  • luvs the idea!!!

    <3aundrea

    ps. thanls for the flaggin system for some reason ppl w/ porn on their xanguh’s kept cumin 2 my site and that helped get rid of them!!

  • Interesting idea. I think the ratings system will work. :]

  • im really hating how you have to give your credit card info. a lot of us are simply too smart to do that. ive been caught in identity theft before.

    are yall going to get rid of that??
    there has to be SOME other way.

    [crossing fingers]

    otherwise, good job!

  • Anybody remember the blurbs before an HBO show?  “The following movie has been reviewed by the Motion Picture Association of America. …. Parental guidance is suggested.”  –I have nothing else to say about any of the flag/ratings thing, it’s all your deal, I like how y’all resolved the IP’s on footprints to locations, though.  That’s usually the only thing I use IP’s for, anyway.  Finding out a person’s general locale, good job on that.

  • I love the flagging option….bravo!

  • Can Xanga allow user to personalize the XangaLock page? :) So that users can add some personal note….=P i like the xanga lock alot and i’m glad it’s widely avaliable! *cool*

  • uh…
    i think xanga entry update thing is messed up rite now…

    how come??

  • Sounds like a great idea, but like any good thing what’s to keep hateful people from screwing it up?
    For example: randomly visiting and rating every site 18+ ?
    Otherwise I think it’s a stellar concept ^^

    ALe¤n

  • It is great! How do we use them?

    Huggs

    LP

  • great!

    btw, can you guys fix the premium archive function to support non-english languages?

  • Hey! umm in my eyes, this isnt really needed. I mean some ppl may say its rated like R when its really rated G and that wouldnt be fair. If you guys do it then just have the Xanga team do it! Well Comment me back please!

    Kelsey

  • great idea i c to much porn and hatrid sites on xanga

  • Suggestion: How about a way to “Lock” a post so no further comments can be left?

  • coolness!

  • this is really kind of pointless. It won’t keep anybody out of your site except for people who don’t want to read it anyway.

  • the next step would be to show trailers before each post.

  • Great idea…lets people confortable with what they are looking at.  Makes the site more safe to explore.  Keep up the great job!!!! 

  • but what about user pictures?  I think they should be g-rated, or at least not showing nudity or sex. You see some of those before even going to the site, and then you have to go to the site, which is generally worst, in order to flag it.

  • I’m lovin tha idea!

  • sweet

  • good stuff! When are you guys going to make the Xanga Dash compatible with the mac.

  • Do it!

  • am i the only one who doesn’t want to give all their credit card info to prove you are 18?  i can’t get on my friend’s xanga because i don’t want all that info. all over the internet.  besides, any kid can steal their parents credit card….am i missing something???

  • I know this is the wrong place to say this, but what is up with the sumbliminal message thingy on everyone’s sites? Is it supposed to be there? I just don’t get the yellow and green swirly thing! Thanks for replying! -John

  • That’s really cool. I kindof hate when people threaten me. Which they haven’t done on xanga, but there is always the “in-case” there.

  • I don’t mind the flaging idea.

    However, the rating thing bugs me.

    I would never use xanga again if they went as childish as that…

    But… I guess, the majority of the people liking this idea are children. Whatever…

  • Hey what can i do if someone is posting pics of me in a site. without permisson.?

  • How does one rate their site without giving you my credit card. I am not going to do that even if it means moving because you have my paypal and I use paypal as not to have to give out my credit card number. Please answer I keep asking. Judi

  • So I sent you an e-mail about sites that have pron and filth on them but never recieved a response form you letting me know you did anything aobut it.

  • i have a question.. i’m just curious. what’s a footprint?

  • John-  I have this thing logging on my tracker (that I put on my Xanga).  It keeps logging itself as “weblog” EVERY time I go into my Xanga.  Is that something new that you guys did or should I be worried about someone hacking my IP address and logging when I go into my Xanga on my tracker?

    It just started happening yesterday… so I’m hoping that it was something you guys did.  I guess that it is tracking a lot of people and throwing a lot of people off guard. 

    If it is something you guys did, you might want to inform people so they aren’t freaking out and trying to find out who is going into their site and then ending up blocking their own IP addresses.  I know that it pissed me off until I finally figured out that I wasn’t the only person this was happening to.  Please let me know what is going on with it!  Thanks!

  • I don’t keep any credit cards around and don’t wish to share any info of that private nature. I think that it’s not fair to those of us with… more… let’s say adult interests to have to be blocked out or share sensitive (in my personal opinion at least) information.

  • you will honestly lose a huge fanbase for xanga. Especially the part of entering credit card information in for verifying age. I personally think people will leave xanga, even if they’re old enough, just because of this. What do you think?

  • great idea guys keep up the good work

  • Though not strong enough, your rating system is a good one and commendable.  So, how do I rate my website?

  • Now this is a great feature, I allways say you should have protective measures & safe guards for your content insatlled…wait do I say that? Of course I do. I want to work for Xanga! I’ll revolutionze it. :)

  • yeah, i definitely think that’s a good idea. speciallly cuz of all the stuff i’m hearing about things being inappropriate online.

  • Hey, I have a complaint…I got a comment the yesterday from a xanga user whose name is ” justadollarshort ” and i went to her site, because I don’t know her, and was extremely shocked at the pictures, and videos she had posted.  Basically Porn.  I flagged her, but honestly I’m not sure what’s supposed to happen…and I want to make sure that her site gets shut down. 

    And yes, I think the ratings would be a super idea.

    -Jenna

  • Thank you. I see it as protection from stuff I (and my kids) really don’t want to be exposed to while still allowing us to enjoy Xanga. I appreciate your effort to make this a fun and safe experience  for everyone.

  • I really like the idea.
    Keep up the good work.

  • I was just wondering what that green and yellow swirly thing was thats up by the blogring//user search box thing, Because every time i put my mouse on it, it does this weird thing.

    Comment back.

  • the idea is okay, but having to give your credit card information? i’m sorry but that’s ridiculous (especially considering the amount of identity theft going on in cyberspace nowadays). i mean, why not go for broke? why not ask for people’s social security numbers, a copy of their driver’s liscense, their birth certificate and green card if applicable? i’d honestly rather fax over a copy of my driver’s liscense than give up my credit card info. don’t get me wrong, i love xanga and really appreciate the work you guys do, but i don’t like this idea at all…

  • I think it’s a great idea!!! Good thinking!!!

  • how do you get to footprint without coming to this site and clicking on  a link? i always have 2 go 2 xanga frontpage and come to this page if i wanna look at sum footprints

  • I keep asking are you going to continue to use the credit card thing for ratings? You never answer. I can’t get to my reviews now even though I put the review button back on. Judi

  • High time! I am very happy for this rating system, and the flagging system will do wonders i can already tell :)

    Hannah

  • i still don’t get it.  only a few people mentioned the credit card thing.   is everybody going to just give all their credit card info., INCLUDING the three digit security code????  almost everyone thinks this is a great idea.  am i missing something?  i posted here again because i haven’t gotten a reply from my email.

  • I think it’s very nice. To be honest, though, I had no idea that we had any kind of flag/rating system at all. XD

  • I’m okay with it myself,I mean it after all what’s been happening,The news about

    myspace.com, Blogs need to have rules in order track down predators and such.

  • Thank you, thank you, thank you for fixing the display problems on my photographs!!!!!  And to think that people said I would never be able to put aside my old 8×10 and starting using a digital camera…….baa humbug!

  • sweet!

  • hii, are you the webmaster?

  • – ohh. that`s great! ♥

  • – by the way. how can i create links [small pictures ryt. that says link me&&stuff]?? &&the scrollbar. where can i get those?? thnxx. ♥

  • Great idea, but there is a lot to define and work out. I’ve been an administrator for a filtered site where users rate and warn each other to block the user for inappropriate language and/or send warnings to the administrator. I found that users would play tricks on people by purposely rating them as inappropriate or being censored, then I would have to go in and fix the mess. What would keep that from happening on this site? Also, everyone’s opinion of what is suitable and not suitable is different. Will there be defining characteristics, words, etc. that would be available to make the ratings uniform? Also, what is there to stop people from purposely rating their site inappropriately for whatever reason?

  • I can’t say that I like it too much. I guess I understand why it’s needed. But, honestly, I think it’s a bit absurd. All these new features you guys are coming up with are cool and all, but they feel more restricting than releasing. I’d rather not think about who comes to my site, when and how often. If I don’t like the content of a site, I’ll press the back button. If someone doesn’t like what I have to say on my site, then I’m sorry, but it’s my business, it’s my life, and it’s my opinion; I don’t really care, and they can press their back button. I have no wish to be investigated, nor any desire to have my principal or parents looking at my site. It has nothing they want to read on there. This place is a site for weblogging. Which means I should be allowed to put up what I want to without worry; it’s a place where I can write what I want and how I want. And my friends can read it. And strangers can read it if they’re so interested. But honestly, I like the peace and quiet of simplicity. And that’s all I really had to say. Thank you, anyways, for doing your best to look out after all of us.

  • I think the idea is a worthy one but I as a xanga user will quit using xanga before I put in my cc information.  You wrote, “We want to help protect users from content they don’t want to see” based on that, then just using an honor method should be fine. If they say they are over 18 (whether they are or not) then obviously they feel that they are ready to see over 18 material. If they do not want to see “adult” material then they should be able to search for blogs with only a PG rating. Just an idea.-Jamie

  • did i mention how much i LOVE xanga?

  • i think its a great idea! like that person said a bove would you guys or us or who ever send our parents a site that we want to go to?? io think thats a GREAT idae for yonger users! it would make a lot of parents feel they are keeping their children safe from online trash! thank you xanga

  • hey, I flagged this person about stealing my picture…

    you guys didn’t do anything about it either…

    http://www.xanga.com/shinypinkie

    http://www.xanga.com/shinypinka

    can you please shut them down please?

    i’ve flagged him….

  • i’m really doubtin about continuing about my premium now…cuz i feel like even when i pay i won’t get extra protection…and there’s really no fast way to contact you guys…

  • hi i was lookin at my friends page and there are these little kids or like teens stealing my friends pictures and makig nasty and rude comments on her page and here is one of them i went to flag there page but it wasnt available. heres the comment

    Bitch please………………………IM BACK!!! AND MEANER THAN EVER!!!!! and by the way….u still look like a gorrilla……BITCH PLEASE
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    !~Ellie the gorrilla dog man~!
    Posted 6/8/2006 at 1:19 PM by frostylh

    ellies actual xanga is ariesdreamer and this has happend before so if there is something u can do id like u to thank you

  • I think this system is interpreted based on the person. What you may consider as ok, I may find offensive and vice versa.

  • How do you flag someone that has a special layout that doesnt have the flag button??? someone keeps attackin my xanga when im not doing anything to them

    PLEASE HELP SOMEONE! IM SO TIRED OF THIS…

  • and awww…thanks Britt!

  • If everyone takes it as seriously as you mean it and do not mislabel their contents(maybe some will do that on purpose, I am not sure) but this is definitely worth a try. 

  • sure it blocks out something you do not want to see, but the flags are still incredibly important, as they can report illegal activities (such as a threat, which cant be blocked by an age restriction…)

    also, what if a user decides to rate his/her site as a g setting when it really is explicit…

    those are some bugs to work on

  • Pretty cool. It seems like it would be tough to work, but it’s great that they can try to impliment these things. Especially with all the crap that goes up on Myspace. If we could maybe filter that out, it would make the internet much safer and more secure.

  • Sounds awesome!

  • Some poor soul got her Sidekick 2 stolen a few days ago.
    Trying to help spread the word. Read here for more information.
    They’ve gotten at least 100 sites to post this on the front page, hoping you guys could do the same :) .

    http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/

  • Yes, it’s wonderful that you’re trying to make this more enjoyable for some people, but at the same time, this is now not allowing me to look at friends’ sites to which I am subscribed, and I fail to see the logic in that. There also does not seem to be a workable way to really change these settings, unless information has been withheld.

  • well it is a good thought, always good to find new things to do to make it more interesting!

  • lame lame lame

  • I think that is a terrific idea. Good work Xanga!

  • i don’t really want everyone who reads my stories to have to use their credit card to verify their age in order to read–this is stupid — if they regestered with you then you must know their age or don’t allow them to use xanga — i try to filter out kids and block them but you should be patrolling the blogrings first — that is my opinion –cause many kids advertise their age –like 13 or 16 –these kids should be excluded –period

  • When will you answer John.  Are you going to use credit cards to do our rating?  I put my review link back up now it goes to a sign in and then it says wrong user name. I had a lot of reviews in there. You never even asked us if we used that link. Judi

  • Now that it has been implemented, I’m even more mad about things. I think it ridiculous that as an adult I have to give you my credit card number and security code in order to access some sites. I personally don’t post things in my blog that are wrong for any age, nor do I frequent sites that would probably be rated explicit, but I don’t like knowing that if someone happens to rate their page as explicit I can’t see it. Parents need to do the parenting instead of companies. My parents always knew what I did online because they checked up on things. Besides, all a child has to do is log out of their account and then search for the site again while browsing without an account. Or are you going to undertaking policing the whole of the internet community now, too?

  • Well, I see some cautious usefulness for this–a few times I’ve come across content I didn’t want to see–but nothing truly pornographic. I think to err on the side of safety is to err on the side of freedom of speech and expression. I am moving more and more toward private and protected posts. I think to do so is to accept the times in which we live. Anything truly worrisome should be mentioned to the office.

  • Tats great,good job Xanga team!

  • Here’s a suggestion: You Guys & Gals should really make direct links to your emails(like on the front of everyones xanga page) so we can contact you eaisly if we have a problem. What do you think?

  • ow interestingggg

    thanks :O)

  • this has nothing to do with flaggings or ratings, but someone from california attempts to access my sight just about every day. they can’t b/c of xangalock – which i love – but sometimes it states my site as the referrer. how does that happen? the page accessed consistantly says xanga lock, but they were already on my sight?

  • how do you flag a person but in their layout it doesnt show flag? it just says home, xanga and then their layout site

  • Not so sure that this is the best choice but then again i think parents should be monitoring what their children do at all times.  i would use this system though just for those who do not want to go into my site.  Although i have not written anything too objectionable so far but you never know lol

  • Even if the parents had the kids on their lap, the parents would appreciate a way to indicate they didn’t want offensive language and pictures, etc. to pop up as they surf the web.

    As for weirdness in page accesses – this afternoon I had about 2 dozen hits from Georgia, all from this page to my front xanga page. That was weird…

  • I think that says it all!

  • much better than before

  • i think that is a good idea

  • Cool. ;)

  • Yayyyy I figured out where I was suppose to go to use this feature. I have rated my content.

    Huggs

    Blessed Be

    LP

  • Generally, the more restrictions you have: the worse it gets. I hate censorship and I don’t think age is a determining factor in what we can handle as much as maturity level and there is no real way to tell exactly what that is. I know a lot of people who are 30, and less mature than I am and I also have an eight year old cousin that can have logical and mature conversation with adults. That and being a minor is no reason to screw people over on what they can see. A lot of people would be far more resstrictive on ratings than they should be and a lot of people have lower opinions of minors than they should. (and I’m not saying that some minors don’t deserve a low opinion.)

    Bottom line is that a minor’s age often prohibits them from gaining the knowledge that they have earned.

    That and death threats in online journals are hardly ever serious, and people who are completely innocent can easily get in huge trouble for being reported for them, but I do agree that child pornography is something to crack down on and I don’t think I need to give you reasons for that. =P

    Please be careful not to restrict too much. A lot of sites will start small and in a year or five, will be another Neopets. I love Xanga and would hate to see anything get to be out-of-hand annoyance.

  • Kool!

  • Smart

  • gay gay gay

  • beware! NC-17!!! BUT THIS THING IS FUCKING GAY!

  • i dont think this is such a great idea, it would be too hard to control and like this other guy said, more regulation is usually bad

  • this is joe

  • Let me warn you:  Beware the Beast!  Remember to understand we still have the freedom of speech in America.  One of you is closing in on our territory. Republican?

  • D

  • I think it’s stupid how you have to have a credit card for “ex.”
    What if you’re that old and you don’t have a credit card?

  • I think that that would be a very good idea!

  • i like it much :)

  • cool

  • Excellent. Excellent work indeed.

  • So you now have a flag and rating system. But I see that the porno sites have already hidden their flag taps in there custom headers. My guess is the child pornographers are doing the same thing.

  • yea okay yea I don’t really care right now people lol!!!!!!=D?

  • What happens if you flagged something by mistake? Is there someone to contact?

  • This has nothing to do with that post…even though it is a good idea…
    basically these people http://www.xanga.com/Spoinkers
    are harassing…me and many other people.
    please tell these lifeless creeps to stop it.

    *note
    I would have flaged them but they seem to have a layout which disabled flagging

    thank you

  • sounds good to me.  Weed out pic enticers– who say nothing but want you to look at their pics.

  • hi…i wanted to maybe give an idea. on our email when we get our xanga subscription stuff, we could see our comments, instead of having to click on it and going to the site, and that way we could read our comments right there and then.

  • http://www.xanga.com/Abercrombie_Bells  is under age he is 11 dont tell him i told you this cause he will get mad and probably try to flag me

  • You want people’s credit or debit card in order to view explicit material. Are you mad! Electronic signature i could see, agreeing to a statement i can see. But risking someone to identity theft…Hell no. Wth, gives?

  • I am all for this rating system….will it be required of all users? or just simply of those who participate?

    thank you

  • Alright, so I still don’t like it, for the reasons I’ve said earlier, but now I have a new one.

    How do you change your age in xanga? Like when you turn 18 and you want to be able to actually view someone’s xanga (gasp! see a xanga? oh dear god that’s unthinkable!) how do you register with xanga that you’re now 18?

  • Good idea! Great! Set it up! Takes the stress out of surfing…

  • ratings….that’s a good idea!!

  • so how’s it all going……any major complaints? or would those ones just not bother to come in and comment……

    i like the new steps. i still wonder about accountability.

    like my age.

     i change it and my state regularly.

    don’t worry….i AM older than 13!

    :)

  • Is there anyway to block certain people from going to my xanga. I have a xanga lock and an xtracker and I don’t want certain people to view my xanga. Can you help me.

  • so xanga = kid safe site now.  time to move elsewhere…

  • just kidding.  i love xanga.

  • Too many ratings, I think. They can be condensed while still being effective.

  • i can’t find my first comment. just curious as to what i wrote because i keep getting referred from here.

    maybe it’s my header…love the images. thanks!

  • I agree with the previous posters that I am not willing to give out my identity/credit card info.
    I don’t feel that it’s really a good idea/my responsibility to make everything “child safe”. That’s what the parents/web browsing filters are for.
    I can probably deal with the ratings labels (though I dislike them intensely), but I think any sort of “ID” check is almost an invasion of privacy. Other than a blanket, “I agree by clicking this link…over the age of consent for my area..” sort of thing, I think it’s an unnecessary and ineffective waste of time. People are always going to lie about their ages, as it suits them. Any system that’s come up with, someone will subvert.
    ~A

  • Do you have someone that works from you that is from Califorina that would be visiting my page everyday and trying to read my previous posts that are protected? I am noticing that they come every day, several times and attempt to access my protected posts. It wouldn’t bother me if I knew it was legiimate, but when it happenes every day, sevreal times a day, it bothers me.

    Can you just let me know if it is one of your staff? Or is it something to be conerned about?

  • whoa…you have to give out your credit card info?

    well…overall it seems to be a promising idea…with additional tweaking

  • I don’t like it how you have to give Credit Card Information, because you run the risk of Identity theft. And what if someone doesn’t have a credit card? Just a thought.

  • fo some reason i cat make a nother site when i try to it says sorry based on the info you  have give im not eligible to rgaster for a new acount are you the guy to help me ??? commment me at L_maximus   please help ps are you the xanga team

  • im not sure im entirely comfortable with this new rating system.

    who is going to rate blogs and how are you going to moderate it?

    are going to simply show the ratings or are you going to actually restrict sites to certain age groups?

  • good idea

  • nice system i like, i like alot.

  • I like it.  Particularly that others can make their ratings recommendations as well.  Asking someone’s age online, is a pretty lame way of verification.  All you have to do is hit “yes”…. and if we ARE of age, I’m not giving cc info.  and not everyone has them.

    I would definitely like to see the ratings in place.

  • Sounds like a fantastic idea.

  • Very nice, me likey.  And I’m wondering when a “friends only” type thing will come out too, like LJ has, only people that are subscribed (and you have to approve the subscription) can read your site.

  • thanks for subscribing, john. also, thanks for clarifying the reasons for the ratings system for me.

    i do have one question – how do i tell when people with “tracker-blockers” visit my site? apparently there are people who are able to mask their ip address so that trackers can’t pick them up. is there a way to still “get” these people?

    also, is xanga-lock fool-proof? as in, can people without xanga accounts still find a way to see the site without creating one?

  • Your flagging system fails to work for people with a layout that overrides that link.  This site needs to be shut down immediately.  http://www.xanga.com/xXFck_Me_HARDXx  There are several sites in the comments that need to be taken care of, also.

  • Good idea!

  • how will the credit card thing help? parents give credit cards to their kids all the time o__O

  • so c rating is under 13. fits me ok. but you cant join unless u r older then 13 so whats up with the other ratings?

  • It’s a fairly good idea.

  • i also am looking to keep ppl off my site,i would also like to know how to track users that put rather rude things in my chatter box if yo could help me with this,thank you
    Corey

  • i like it but who desides ur rating?

    Michele

  • Working in a school system, we need to filter out inappropriate content for children. Currently, we are forced to block all content from Xanga, MySpace and others in order keep inappropriate content from being viewed on school computers. Will there be a way to block different levels of the ratings system?

  • hey i think this is a good thing your doinh

  • Question.  How do you flag someone if their layout disables the link?

  • I flagged a site, Sarita, that neeeeeeeeeeds to be shut down. It was my original site and someone hacked into it, I have emailed you guys COUNTLESS times about this, it is affecting my safety and health, well being that this site is still on the net. I NEED IT TO BE SHUT DOWN. Can someone PLEASE get back to me on this. Thank you. my email is saritapreciosa1@hotmail.com

  • Again please I am being harrassed and I NEED that site to be shut down. Thank you I appreciate your concern and help more than you can imagine.

  • Considering how much porno is listed on Featured today, and considering the present day political environment, all I can say is that I’m glad I don’t work for Xanga. 

  • Not going to put a credit card in just to look at some friend’s post who happened to post something deemed explicit content. Doesn’t matter if it isn’t charged, it’s not good to have to put in personal information like that on an unsecured site.

  • how do i get my parentsd permission to grt on a site

  • hey yall

  • This is good.

    I’m a bit color blind, however, can the colors be more apparent and contrasting?

    Maybe the colors of the xanga logo? A bit of blue wouldn’t hurt.

  • um..how do u use it..i want 2 use it..oh u click on one and stick it 2 uo site i got it now!bye

  • I don’t understand.  I know you’ve started the rating individual entries, but how do you rate on persons site, and what does that mean to the general public.  Where do those ratings get posted, and how does one see what a rating applies to?  I am confused.

  • ok

  • so sad, I love ice cream

  • I for one am so happy for all your efforts on behalf of our kids. I love the xanga lock thing too.

  • Thank you. This allows those who wish to avoid certain to do so easily while not harming anyone else’s rights. This is a good thing and should be very appreciated by all.

  • Umm yes…I’m a huge Harry Potter fan so I consequently am in many Harry Potter roleplays in xanga. somehow a person found out my password to one of my roleplays (alexvasserr) and decided to put her own post up, like she was rp’ing for me. Now I may not know every single rule there is to roleplaying, but i find it highly rude to go into somebody elses roleplay and change something about that roleplay like in (AmberOx_era, who i also play).  I have reason to suspect that the same person is using amberox_era as her own. She’s changing my own plot, she also changed my password to that site so i cannot get back onto it to change it anyway.

    this all started with AlexVasserr’s site on/around June 14 when she put her own introduction after I had already put my own up.

    Do you have any advice as to what i should do? Or can you take care of it?

    Please contact me through email(moon_light1307@yahoo.com) or by my personal xanga at moonlight7707.

    Thank you soo much

    amber

  • You guys are losing members to Myspace anyway, so why bother?

  • JOHN!!!!!!!!!

    I want the option where when you post a comment and mess up, you can edit or delete the comment. Sometimes it’s embarrassing when you post up a bad comment accidently and you have to post another comment to correct the error.

  • Good idea! :)

  • very cool

  • I think you might want to check into this cause i find it offensive towards certain races. Because I’m not sure if you can flag such a big group.So anyone that agrees with me try to find a way to dispose of this group.

    here’s the link to the trash:http://www.xanga.com/groups/group.aspx?id=107296

  • xanga.com/jesrora needs to be shut down.  ad removal and impersonation.

  • you guys need 2 shut dwn http://www.xanga.com/ParisHilton__thatshott she has nude pics

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  • i like the ratings system, as long as it’s reliable.  i have a young daughter who has a xanga besides having my own.

  • cool, but where did the music options go?

    :(

  • hey what up i rachel

  • I have a question about my xanga site. Something is blocking all my options so I cant get into my public profile and account info and all those options. Is there any way to fix this?

  • awsoam

  • I flagged my self on ascendant, thinking it was to keep people out of my site specifically. Do I need to do anything? Also how do keep out bad stuff on my site?
    Thanks Chad

  • um

    why would little children be on xanga anyway? and why shouldnt the parent of guardian of the child be responsible, not you, or us?

    i dont think the rating would stop a kid from seeing something,

  • i love the idea!

  • very nice work… if only we could do that to the brians of sickos

  • http://www.writers-network.com/members/sfiawong

  • hey i waz just wonderen r u from hong kong cuz on my footprints it say hong kong den ur site right next 2 it…if so, why do u keep coming and not leaving comments!!!!gosh!!k im cool..no im not..T_T

  • nice!~

  • My xanga wont upload my display pictures, any of them.
    Fix it.

  • hi, well……not a bad idea, i think whats the best thing u have done on xanga, is the tracker! now thats smart, and helps alot!lol

  • I agree with “moniet” up there – We need a way to completly block certain users from our sites, not just block then from leaving comments on our sites. Hope to see that soon!

  • very good idea . i have trouble with kids viewing others who have rated R and nc17 content and i cant wait to use it!!!!!!

  • Xanga has become a cesspool filled with sewerscum and there’s nothing that Xanga can do about it.   Why don’t you just admit it?

  • i think all ages should be able to join xanga

  • excuse me but…
    this is slightly a good idea, but people would abuse this, do you choose the rating of your site?
    and more over if its explicit content then it should’nt be on xanga in the first place
    the only help this is going to bring is that the slightly mature and reasonable people will be able to know if they are going to a site about lets say kittens and it happens to be explicit, then thye know it was misrated…
    BTW
    Are you going to configure xanga to where it says the rating and then depending on parental controls etc. you won’t be able to view it?

  • Is flagging anonymous?

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  • That’s an interesting idea… I have an idea, when we get a trial subscription, can we get a notification letting us know our trial is up so we can deside if we want to make it permanent?

  • Keep up with your story thing your telling maybe someone will listen to  what you have to say !!!!!!!!!!

  • i  lik tha   idea

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  • ok look at my site now

  • u should take dat off nodody wants to see movie ratings

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  • come sign my guest book

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  • Tough stuff if you feel censored! if you want to make a porn site go make one dont use something like xanga that is primarily usd by teens!

  • cuts boy hit me up

  • i’m cute funny and nice hit me up boys

  •   i agree with ‘andiehobbit (sorry if useing someone name is wrong). Why not putt up sines that thare are any porn on a site and then make sure that its not easyly gotten in to(unless thay are over 18)
       i was wondering if thare is some way that Xanga could have some identification check so that You(Xanaga) would know for sure that the person in question is over 17.
    Would someone beable to cross rate someones site only one every 7 days to help make it eayser and unablused?(or some other way about that) becaouse ppl if given the opportunity may abuse the system.(as others have said befor me)
      Would drug ‘talk(and or pictures of them) be a problem? (if so how?)
    If an adult wanted to read another adult’s post about anything explicit then so be it. But i don’t think children, who are under controle of their parents and are of consern to the government (and so on) should ever ‘stumble on to/ or are looking(see) for explicit material. This is a great step to keeping children safe.

    Over all i do think it would be a good idea.

    Sushi

  • would the rateing systim be rated by the poster or by Xanga its self? If someone rates something G and its abviously should be rated nc18 then what would the protocol be?
    What would the protocol be when/if a person or a band of users abuse rateing on one particular person’s site?
    Again
    Sushi

  • Excellent idea!

  • Thank you! Some users are quite disturbing and post pornographic links and rude comments on people’s sites. :) I’ve used it already.

  • i think the rating system is my-t strange……. c/b for no reason……. preferably randomly!@@@

  • I do not like this rating system concept, I have never like ratings. If you intend to create a community where free speech is encouraged, encourage it. Do not and caveats and blocks to free speech. I do not wish to give credit card information and I will not I also refuse to snail mail something at my expense it is, firstly, too slow and secondly, not free. I really appreciate the ability to place my thoughts somewhere to be heard, and am thankful there is a free option here at xanga, which was my first blog and continues to be the one I rely on. Myspace and other are not an open forum for thought. I do not express how I feel on that site this is my online journal where I have felt safe for years to post what I think and how I feel. I implore you not to drive those who trust you away with this. I also do not like ratings and movies or video games but this is not a money machine marketed to specific groups. This is a weblog hosting site. lets us host our weblogs free from administrative interference except where legal recourse is required. Please don’t give into the parents against adolescent expression.

    Your rather disappointed user
    -SamuraiPirate

  • Hey wassup that is good and all but there is this one pic stealer on xanga that takes other girls’ photos makes a fake site and harasses people.

    here are their names so far, since i’ve kept researching

    http://www.xanga.com/karenwoon_114 (fake person, picture taken from someoneelse)

    http://www.xanga.com/x_jess2cuh (fake person, picture taken from someone else)

    http://www.xanga.com/PoGies_BaByGuRl02 (fake person, picture taken from someone else)

    http://www.xanga.com/rinoacc2 (Fake person, picture taken from another site)

    http://www.xanga.com/daisy_ssii (Fake ass people)

    I can see that this is the same person and he talks about getting analy raped by internet predators so I think these sites should get shut down and also find a way to track this person’s ip and block it because it is harassing other girls and guys including me

  • As a parent myself, having 2 teenage girls, I think that rating is a GREAT idea !!!

  • haveing free speach does not mean that there shouldn’t be a rateing system. the free speach is for everyone true but we should abuse our free speach to be explisit. and if we choose to be then why not have a rateing system to keep others safe? the point of haveing free speach is not to alow children read explicitly harmful abuseive things (on the internet or in books)
    putting Your thoughts on the internet is not wrong or a bad idea. But be sure You know others can read it then. And just becaouse You want to post Your every day thoughts  ideas does not mean that it shouldn’t be rated. if someone adult wants to read You thoughts(post) then thay can, but the rateing system is to keep others safe, and not get annyed with explicit , abusivem or harmfull posts. not to stop You from haveing Your free speach.

     Im for a rateing system. ITs a good idea. Im for everything that is good for minors. Keep up the good work xanga!

  • =Marine4Life=
    … any veterans, etc? “please visit my site” …

  • cool!

  • Sounds interesting! COmment me

    Amanda Bynes

  • Wow.  I have to rate my site.

  • I got charged when it said it wouldn’t bill my account???

  • HEY JOHN THERE ARE THESE TO PEOPLE AND THEY WONT LEAVE ME ALONE CAN U SHUT DOWN THERE SITES PLEASE I’LL DO ANYTHING TO GET THEN AWAY AND STOP ATACKING ME!!!! THEY ARE http://WWW.XANGA.COM/ARMY_GURL_92

    &

    http://WWW.XANGA.COM/XO_NICOLE_XO_03

    THANKS AND PLEASE SHUT THEM DOWN OR FIND SOMEONE WHO CAN!!!!!!

    THANKS <33 KAYLA MARIE

  • is there a way 2 keep ppl from copying ur site? cuz sum1 has the egzat same site but without my background!!!! uts freaking me out!MAY-b its a stalker…waaaaaaaaaaT_T

  • this person is a sexual predator and is harrasing me on my site her xanga is — nataliekiss@xanga.com her msn is wishlist441@hotmail.com  i hope you can do something about this

    thank you-

    sarah diaz

    my xanga is americanangelcick101@xanga.com

  • Sounds like a good idea – I haven’t been a Xanga member for very long so haven’t noticed a need for “grading” but evidently there is a danger – so go for it!  for our safety……

  • I looked at my rating and I rated myself for general audiance since I only write about spiritual things. I had a community vote of six for general audiance one for Discretion required and one for C and I am rated D how can that be. Judi

  • I think it is alsome that you are doing these safety things. I already used the flagging program for somone being to young for xanga and flaged another person for harmful threats!!!

  • As a mother, I would hope it would be effective.  Children are so computer literate and able to get into almost any site, but I would certainly hope that anyone seeing anything Unsettling would be neglect to dismiss it, and would hopefully report it. 

    Wait…did I just go back and read “death threats”???

    Be like Nike, people, just do it.

    `~d

  • I’m really sorry, John.  I do not see how this is at all important to me. Tell me, on my site, Marsweatherstation.   …Sandy

  • how do i take this shit off my site. with the damn rarting stuff??????????????????????????

    f00l cmb . i need to no how.k.?

     better comment me back.

  • hey people

  • hey people

  • hey ummm i just can’t find the xanga lock anymore, cause now it’s not on my site, and i want it back. but it just dissapeared today so could u please help plz!

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  • your explicite sites have a flaw, when i go to gain access to it, it takes me to the page for verification, and i try to verify by credit card but the link is dead

  • oh wai nevermind sorry it came back!^_^

  • cummon, whos underage here? who need this?

  • o man… whos underage? cummon… who need this…? not cool… i dont trust giving credit card info via net.. and why fax?? cummon…. any other alternatives? i suggest.. sending via email of a scanned proof of age… not all have fax machines… cummon…

  • i really like the idea of being able to flag users.

    i think it would be wonderful if we were able to flag blogrings as well.

    i was astounded to see how many blogrings promoted hate crimes, discrimination, and bashed other xanga users.

  • How do you prevent peple frm copyin ur stuf like copy n paste?? T-T

  • COMENT BAK PLZZ!!! MY FRENDS HS BEEN COPYIN MY STUF!!!! ><

  • how do u make layouts?

  • John I was wondering if you could help me out. Someone has stolen my pass word and is now posting inapropriate things on my page. They have changd my pass word so that I can no longer get on my site. They are turning it into their own. Please help. If you could contact me about this ASAP I would thank you very much. I don’t want this person ruining any friendships that I have been trying to build on. Thank you, Steph

  • oh thas wut the ratings is 4! yea, censorship sux i mean blogs help me vent so the rating system seems betta~

  • cool!

  • cool!

  • hey maybe we share the same passions!!
    give comments!!!

  • hey guys i have a question!!
    i wanna put some music on my site xanga but how does it work ??help plzzz!!!
    http://www.xanga.com/xfatalex
    thx a lot

  • I need some help with my photo uploader. I have xanga premium–and for the past few weeks or so it has NOT been working. I’ve had to use hosting sites to post my pictures.

    Can you help me?

    -Courtney~

  • no.

  • Is anyone having problems with the fill option (for background color) and the border option on your posts? I haven’t been abe to get it to work in weeks! John please contact me or have one of your people do it.

  • So KeWl I <3 It!!!

  • you shouldn’t have to give any creditcard info to use xanga..  or you have to fax something  to xanga????  it’s an e-community…  why are you require people FAX something to you… sooo stupid.. if this is going to be the case.. i’m going to shut down my account.

  • hi  there!

  • hey john this is lauren I’m a new member

                whats ^?       ;)

  • did you wish upon a falling star?

  • Wow, this site has changed a lot since the last time I have used it, but that is an awesome idea.

  • I just have a question if I blocked someone why would they not show up in my footprints since they had been on my site several times during the evening. They also are not in the blocked list. How can that happen. Judi

  • SoUnDs Fun =P

  • A grand way to handle the issue of content unsuitable for many.

    Would it be at all possible to assign my blog a permanent EX ?

  • what if people pretend that they are you and put pictures of you?

  • Haha my site just got rated X. I was wondering why my footprints and comments dramatically dropped. No one wants to put their credit card number and ssn and shit into the computer just to view a blog… Xanga has gotten so lame. We don’t need babysitters. No wonder everyone’s going to Myspace. Also, how come the blogrings promoting anorexia and cutting arent being removed? And the blogs that illustrate anorexia and bulimia, self-harm, and all that weird crap? Looks to me like Xanga is targeting people. If you’re going to try to impliment something like that, try to cover all bases, dont single people out. This is the reason people are taking their blogs elsewhere.

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