Bidding adieu to X-rated lenses
As we posted over the Summer and messaged to lensmasters individually, we’ve been making a handful of changes to our Squidoo policies, specifically in regards to X-rated content, overly promotional lenses, spam and junk.
Little by little over the last few months, we’ve implemented and released system filters to support our updated policies.
Tomorrow we’ll be scanning the whole site for X-rated lenses and will be locking them from view, after a lengthy heads-up period and several friendly advance notices.
We’re not excited about removing anyone’s lenses, but practically, supporting X rated lenses no longer makes good sense for us or for our community. X rated content is unfortunately more attractive to spammers than to participatory readers and good content creators.
Of course, lensmasters who think their lenses got flagged by accident will be able to request another review, but based on our last few scans and tests, we expect there be very few real false positives.