Quick housekeeping note

[megwrites]

I've had to turn off anonymous commenting on the LJ mirror of this journal (fiction_theory) because of an inundation of anonymous porn spam that's getting to be too much to handle. And LJ isn't being helpful about it, and there's no real way to block anonymous spam, since LJ doesn't have IP banning to my knowledge.

I don't like doing this, because I don't like making someone join up with a site or figure out OpenID to leave a comment, especially since that might not be feasible in a lot of situations, for a lot of reasons. But I kind of have to make an executive decision here and not having my inbox flooded with links like [WARNING: V. TRIGGERY FOR MENTION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND PEJORATIVE TERMS. HIGHLIGHT TO SEE] "see mom rape son porn!" and "tranny sluts get gangbanged". Kinda not what I need in my inbox or my headspace, thanks.

So, alas, that account is closed to anonymous comments, but they are open at my dreamwidth journal (megwrites) so if you need to comment anonymously, you can do it there.

And I'll be adding the little footer note so that people can easily find where the original DW entry is. I should've done that a while back. Lazy me.

ETA: I've fixed the HTML (I believe) so that the triggery words are whited out in everyone's browsers, since I was helpfully notified that my codefail made it actually HIGHLIGHT in some people's windows. Eeep! Not what I wanted! Sorry to anyone who has been triggered, I will make sure that the text remains grayed out.

Comments

[cheyinka]

Hi, I spotted this on my Network page, and thought I'd let you know that since you only changed the font color, not the background color, you essentially highlighted those terms for me instead of hiding them. I might have highlighted them to see anyway (because I'm curious to a fault) but it was still pretty startling!

To keep them from being visible unless someone highlights them, you can do something like:
<span style="background-color:white;color:white">pejorative term here</span> - I dimly remember that some browsers "correct" white-on-white or black-on-black text, so instead of white you could specify dimgray instead.

It won't keep the text from being read by screenreaders, but I do not recall the workaround for that.

[megwrites]

Thanks for letting me know. I've changed it per your suggestion so that the text is gray on gray, which I think should take care of that problem at least for the visual text.

I, too, have no idea how to do something for screenreaders besides putting the trigger warning there so hopefully if someone is using one they can be forewarned.

Again, thanks for letting me know that!