I’m not sure if scenes like this are considered that provocative these days, but someone or something has gone around the internet and has had this website blocked as pornography. I could not even get my stats on Alexa yesterday without clicking the button to allow me to view sites with adult content.
As webcomics go (or as comics in general go these days,) A Distant Soil is mild stuff. Many websites with far more nudity and strong language are not tagged as pornography.
A disgruntled rival may be playing dirty, maybe someone else out there has an agenda, or perhaps there is even a webcrawler that flags strong language. I simply don’t know how the interwubz decides who’s naughty and who’s nice.
However, if you have trouble accessing this site, you may have to check your browsing permissions.
Another page scanned from the book, with minor lettering touch ups. Once again, I marvel at how easy it is to move the letters to fit in the balloons just so.
Restoration on this page was relatively simple.
My browser didn’t balk, and I’m surfing from my mom’s computer.
Strange idea, tagging this as porn.
no problem here, and I get this on the Google RSS feed with the adult content filter ON because of some of the sites I subscribe to has some shock value. But not only did I get the feed, the image popped right up
I had no problems getting the page to come up. How could any one see this as porn?
I went to websitedenied and double checked and it has it listed as “jokes” and “art and entertainment”. Alexa still has it with an “adult” tag.
A couple of years ago, a novelist friend was finding her website was being blocked for “dangerous content”. She’s a mystery writer — all the talk of violence, murder, and methods was STORY stuff. She had to adjust the meta-ratings on her site, I think.
It’s been a while since I looked at that stuff, so I don’t remember all the steps. Although I don’t think ADS is “all ages”, listing it only as “adult” is a bit much, especially in today’s audience. I don’t know, is there a middling tag available?
Anyway, I haven’t had any problem accessing the site.
I’m pretty sure there is nothing in our meta tags that would be a problem. I will ask my web lady DC McQueen if she knows how to handle this.
I doubt webcrawlers can analyze comic book pages, so it’s more likely someone with a warped idea of what constitutes “porn.” Which makes that funny and sad at the same time XD but mostly funny.