Images not loading in stories including peoples avatars/Had story kicked back but cannot see the reason for it.

[Rude_Dude]

Got a bit of a twofer here. Images are just white, it's not that they are not loading they seem to be replaced by white images of the same size. I use firefox but the issue still occurs in chrome and basilisk.

Other issue is a story kicked back and I can't see it at all, say's I haven't had anything sent back. (Image included.)
Not running an adblocker and still running into the issues on other browsers.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Got a bit of a twofer here. Images are just white, it's not that they are not loading they seem to be replaced by white images of the same size. I use firefox but the issue still occurs in chrome and basilisk.

Other issue is a story kicked back and I can't see it at all, say's I haven't had anything sent back. (Image included.)
Not running an adblocker and still running into the issues on other browsers.

You might be coming unstuck with Lit's recent change in visual policy - no nudes. A bot might be censoring the images, resulting in blanking or a story rejection.

 

[Rude_Dude]

Are you telling me that this adult oriented webzone made for sexual writings is now nudity free?

 

[Rude_Dude]

You might be coming unstuck with Lit's recent change in visual policy - no nudes. A bot might be censoring the images, resulting in blanking or a story rejection.

Are you telling me that this adult oriented webzone made for sexual writings is now nudity free?

 

[ElectricBlue]

Are you telling me that this adult oriented webzone made for sexual writings is now nudity free?

Yes. It's a writing site first and foremost, and doesn't want to get tangled up in age verification stuff, which is increasingly being legislated for visual content. There are policy statements in other threads. It's a recent change, been rolled out in the last two months or so.

 

[ToPleaseHim]

Are you telling me that this adult oriented webzone made for sexual writings is now nudity free?

Quoted for emphasis.

 

[Lumiere_Amie]

Yes. It's a writing site first and foremost, and doesn't want to get tangled up in age verification stuff, which is increasingly being legislated for visual content. There are policy statements in other threads. It's a recent change, been rolled out in the last two months or so.

"doesn't want to get tangled up in age verification stuff, which is increasingly being legislated for visual content"

THIS is the first statement I've read regarding the issue around images, ane how the policy is or is not be implemented, that makes any sense to me. Where I live, some sites require age verification, and some don't. i don't understand the differences. Maybe some sites are just ignoring the law.

So my questions to @ElectricBlue are these: Why do you say that? Is this part of the behind the scenes conversations between the site admins and moderators? Are you part of the Lit inner sanctum? Did you read this elsewhere on one of the forums?

I mean absolutely no disrespect. I don't know you, and I don't know where your information comes from. I am sinscere in my questions. Thank you in advance.

 

[ElectricBlue]

"doesn't want to get tangled up in age verification stuff, which is increasingly being legislated for visual content"

THIS is the first statement I've read regarding the issue around images, ane how the policy is or is not be implemented, that makes any sense to me. Where I live, some sites require age verification, and some don't. i don't understand the differences. Maybe some sites are just ignoring the law.

So my questions to @ElectricBlue are these: Why do you say that? Is this part of the behind the scenes conversations between the site admins and moderators? Are you part of the Lit inner sanctum? Did you read this elsewhere on one of the forums?

I mean absolutely no disrespect. I don't know you, and I don't know where your information comes from. I am sincere in my questions. Thank you in advance.

As an artist with content recently archived (not deleted or purged, but removed from public view), I received an email from the site about two week's ago which explained in detail the reasons and the approach being taken. The email stated that other illustrators have also been contacted, but I don't know how many, nor who.

As it was sent addressed to me using my account email address, it's confidential communication under the site's terms of acceptance, so I've not disclosed it on any forum. Although I have seen the guts of it posted by someone else, either here or in the Visual Artists' forum. I sent a PM to Laurel suggesting it would be wise to post the content as a formal policy announcement, but received no reply. There might be legal reasons for not doing that (yet), but that's speculation.

I'm not a moderator nor in any way associated with the site's inner workings. I've had maybe a dozen exchanges with Laurel over the years, but only ever in the context of questions relating to publishing stories (how to publish collaborative stories, for example, or a long delay, once or twice).

When the policy was first announced, I thought it inept and poorly done, and said so in a couple of threads. The reason given, that people didn't want NSFW content popping up while they were browsing in public, was silly.

At the same time, being aware of current legislative trends, both here in Australia as well as in Europe, UK and the US, I suspected the reasons behind the policy shift. Anyone moderately aware of this sort of thing could have arrived at the same conclusion that I did, without the hysteria many people have expressed. It was pretty obvious to me that the site would seek legal advice, and also obvious that pro-active action was needed with regards visual content.

Here in Australia, for example, there's new legislation prohibiting people under sixteen from using social media platforms. I'm not sure exactly when it kicks in, nor how it will be enforced, because it doesn't affect me or my children - they're adults - but that's what's happening.

 

[Lumiere_Amie]

As an artist with content recently archived (not deleted or purged, but removed from public view), I received an email from the site about two week's ago which explained in detail the reasons and the approach being taken. The email stated that other illustrators have also been contacted, but I don't know how many, nor who.

As it was sent addressed to me using my account email address, it's confidential communication under the site's terms of acceptance, so I've not disclosed it on any forum. Although I have seen the guts of it posted by someone else, either here or in the Visual Artists' forum. I sent a PM to Laurel suggesting it would be wise to post the content as a formal policy announcement, but received no reply. There might be legal reasons for not doing that (yet), but that's speculation.

I'm not a moderator nor in any way associated with the site's inner workings. I've had maybe a dozen exchanges with Laurel over the years, but only ever in the context of questions relating to publishing stories (how to publish collaborative stories, for example, or a long delay, once or twice).

When the policy was first announced, I thought it inept and poorly done, and said so in a couple of threads. The reason given, that people didn't want NSFW content popping up while they were browsing in public, was silly.

At the same time, being aware of current legislative trends, both here in Australia as well as in Europe, UK and the US, I suspected the reasons behind the policy shift. Anyone moderately aware of this sort of thing could have arrived at the same conclusion that I did, without the hysteria many people have expressed. It was pretty obvious to me that the site would seek legal advice, and also obvious that pro-active action was needed with regards visual content.

Here in Australia, for example, there's new legislation prohibiting people under sixteen from using social media platforms. I'm not sure exactly when it kicks in, nor how it will be enforced, because it doesn't affect me or my children - they're adults - but that's what's happening.

Thank you for the thorough and thoughtful response. Like you, the explanation of people not wanting to have NSFW images show on their screen seemed nonsensical to me. I’ve not followed the discussion closely since I generally don’t share images. I’m here to write stories.
Thanks again.