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May. 30th, 2008 09:33 amETA: OH, LOOK! POLICIES. And ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
legomymalfoy did indeed win.
Well, the election's over. I thinklegomymalfoy won, but we won't know for sure until the votes are tallied. Hopefully LJ will make a post in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
news saying they're tallying and addressing the various rumors that are flying around.
I'm not going to say what order my votes were in, but I did vote the fandom block. Honestly, I know that maybe one member of my flist is interested in this, but it helps me to layout my thoughts in type.
( My thoughts in type )
At the same time, I want to pull my hair out a little because... This is important. It's so important, to me and to a lot of other people. LJ is our home, and this would be a more direct way of speaking to our lease-holders about our concerns. But... come on, this amount of mudslinging from the supporters has been ridiculous. Admittedly, not all the candidates have comported themselves well, but the supports have made me headdesk more than once in this past week. And death threats? What kind of moron thought that one up? This is important, but very few things are that important. I'd rather lose LJ altogether than have a single person die.
I'm not even sure how to express my thoughts on that one coherently. Everytime I try, I throw my hands in the air and give up. It's just... SO STUPID. It makes me ashamed to be a member, to think that I might possibly have some six-degrees connection to whoever did this.
Serious fail guys. Just when we needed to be mature and competent. No wonder the owners think we're all psycho.
legomymalfoy did indeed win.Well, the election's over. I think
legomymalfoy won, but we won't know for sure until the votes are tallied. Hopefully LJ will make a post in news saying they're tallying and addressing the various rumors that are flying around.I'm not going to say what order my votes were in, but I did vote the fandom block. Honestly, I know that maybe one member of my flist is interested in this, but it helps me to layout my thoughts in type.
( My thoughts in type )
At the same time, I want to pull my hair out a little because... This is important. It's so important, to me and to a lot of other people. LJ is our home, and this would be a more direct way of speaking to our lease-holders about our concerns. But... come on, this amount of mudslinging from the supporters has been ridiculous. Admittedly, not all the candidates have comported themselves well, but the supports have made me headdesk more than once in this past week. And death threats? What kind of moron thought that one up? This is important, but very few things are that important. I'd rather lose LJ altogether than have a single person die.
I'm not even sure how to express my thoughts on that one coherently. Everytime I try, I throw my hands in the air and give up. It's just... SO STUPID. It makes me ashamed to be a member, to think that I might possibly have some six-degrees connection to whoever did this.
Serious fail guys. Just when we needed to be mature and competent. No wonder the owners think we're all psycho.
X-Posted to ljspeaks and my personal journal.
I don't think I've ever posted directly here (ljspeaks). I honestly didn't think I would. I'm not a 'community leader', whatever that means in this day and age. If I'm an activist, I'm a bad one because I tend to yell a lot and then do nothing. But after this latest SUP foul-up, a few things have become painfully clear. I thought I'd take a few minutes to share, and see what others think. But first, I want to lay out the basis of my idea, just so everyone can se where I'm coming from.
( for the sake of cutting )
ljspeaks and my personal journal.I don't think I've ever posted directly here (
ljspeaks). I honestly didn't think I would. I'm not a 'community leader', whatever that means in this day and age. If I'm an activist, I'm a bad one because I tend to yell a lot and then do nothing. But after this latest SUP foul-up, a few things have become painfully clear. I thought I'd take a few minutes to share, and see what others think. But first, I want to lay out the basis of my idea, just so everyone can se where I'm coming from.( for the sake of cutting )
Today's summary
Mar. 13th, 2008 02:27 amWow. Talk about a bad day. And just when I'm ready to veg out in front of the computer, LJ manages to take even that bit of "not horrible" away. I'll bullet this list of how my day went, because I could go into a rant on any one of them.
I'll rant more on these later, but I'm tired, have almost no braincells to spare, and am possibly a bazillion comments behind in replying. Right now my newly-aquired trick-elbow is killing me, so I don't think I'll be replying to anything anytime soon.
- Went to bed at 5AM, then woke up at 8AM because my grandpuppy Jace had been coughing and my Aunt thought there might be something stuck in his throat. So I packed him up and we went to the vet. Well, there wasn't anything stuck, thankfully. Instead it's an upper respritory infection. So he gets a week of pills and I get to hope it doesn't turn into doggy pneumonia. He also has a yeast infection in both ears. *SIGH* I feel like a bad puppy-grandma.
- I installed a smoke detector. My elbow has been killing me lately (I think it's a pinched nerve), so this involved much cursing and trying not to move in a way that would hurt worse than necessary.
- IT is staffed by morons. I remotely checked into our SQL server today (because I've been babying them since this damned thing with the databases started, and I'll be damned if Spring Break is going to stop me). We lost a gig of our (very limited) harddrive space within 24 hours because the guy in charge of the SQL server hardware won't do his damned job.
- I spent way more than I should have, between vet bill (thirty dollar blow), books at Borders (sixteen dollars after coffee for two) and the movie place going out of business sale (twenty dollars for seven dvds). Luckily, my tax refund is due in, but that really should have gone to certain short-term bills... Especially since Spring Break week isn't a paid one. Short paycheck May, here I come. Blech.
- I got my hair done on Monday by my staylist-to-be cousin. Tonight she's home. And my inferiority complex is in full swing. *SIGH* I'd love to have her hair/nails/body/etc... but I hate myself for wanting them. Gah, what modern life does to women.
- LJ has FUBAR'D again, this time by taking away the Free Accounts from new users. Just when I was starting to get some trust back, there it goes again... I think this is honestly worse than Strikethrough. At least then they were trying to cover their legal tailfeathers, no matter how stupid their method. This is jjust money-grubbing, and then trying to hide it! Worse, now they're insulting our collective and individual intelligence by saying they axed Basic because the sign-up table was too complicated.
I'll rant more on these later, but I'm tired, have almost no braincells to spare, and am possibly a bazillion comments behind in replying. Right now my newly-aquired trick-elbow is killing me, so I don't think I'll be replying to anything anytime soon.
Well, as I'm sure a lot of people have heard, we've finally gotten that policy update we've been promised. This is a proposed policy, which means we still have a chance to argue it before it brings the banhammer down on us all. So I've gone through it, even the bits I'm not terribly concerned about. Here's my responses.
( Adult Content )
( Bandwidth Theft )
( COPPA Violation )
( Child Pornography )
( Commercial Activity )
( Copyright Violation )
( Evasion of Termination )
( Harassment )
( Hate Speech )
( Illegal Content )
( Impersonation )
( Inappropriate Content )
( Invasion of Privacy )
( Journal Ban Evasion )
( Missing Maintainers )
( Non-LiveJournal Requests )
( Non-Photographic images of minors )
( Objectionable Userpic )
( Requests From Parents )
( Self Harm )
( Shared Authorization Code )
( Spam )
( Suicidal posts )
( Third-Party Requests )
( Threatening Content )
( Unwanted Friending )
Some things weren't covered that kind of concerns me. I'd like to see something about fiction, specifically saying that it's not illegal and you can't be banned for it. I'd love a way to submit complaints when you feel you've been unfairly treated by LJ (such as the issues with gay art being banned why clearly underage hetero art was passed) that doesn't require a ton of phone calls. I'd like them to define "objectionable" and to separate "adult" from "sex". Someone somewhere also needs to make a straight statement on links and how they're treated - right now we have a lot of "I think" statements, but there's nothing on it in the policy. Most of all, I'd like to see something clearly stating how and why the abuse flagging exists and how it's handled, down to and including how many flags something needs before it's investigated and some sort of indication to the content-owner. I hate having to hide my NC17 stuff behind a FLock, but I don't want people to see that damned LJ-cut either, and I know most people don't have LJs and will be really annoyed by it. But how many more people are annoyed by not seeing anything at all?
This is very clearly a work in progress, and man is there some work to be done on it! Does anyone else see anything that I missed?
( Adult Content )
( Bandwidth Theft )
( COPPA Violation )
( Child Pornography )
( Commercial Activity )
( Copyright Violation )
( Evasion of Termination )
( Harassment )
( Hate Speech )
( Illegal Content )
( Impersonation )
( Inappropriate Content )
( Invasion of Privacy )
( Journal Ban Evasion )
( Missing Maintainers )
( Non-LiveJournal Requests )
( Non-Photographic images of minors )
( Objectionable Userpic )
( Requests From Parents )
( Self Harm )
( Shared Authorization Code )
( Spam )
( Suicidal posts )
( Third-Party Requests )
( Threatening Content )
( Unwanted Friending )
Some things weren't covered that kind of concerns me. I'd like to see something about fiction, specifically saying that it's not illegal and you can't be banned for it. I'd love a way to submit complaints when you feel you've been unfairly treated by LJ (such as the issues with gay art being banned why clearly underage hetero art was passed) that doesn't require a ton of phone calls. I'd like them to define "objectionable" and to separate "adult" from "sex". Someone somewhere also needs to make a straight statement on links and how they're treated - right now we have a lot of "I think" statements, but there's nothing on it in the policy. Most of all, I'd like to see something clearly stating how and why the abuse flagging exists and how it's handled, down to and including how many flags something needs before it's investigated and some sort of indication to the content-owner. I hate having to hide my NC17 stuff behind a FLock, but I don't want people to see that damned LJ-cut either, and I know most people don't have LJs and will be really annoyed by it. But how many more people are annoyed by not seeing anything at all?
This is very clearly a work in progress, and man is there some work to be done on it! Does anyone else see anything that I missed?
*SCREAM* CENSORSHIP!
Dec. 7th, 2007 11:43 amWell! Here we go again. Oh LJ, do you never learn?
We'll start from the top with an example. Try to search for the interest "spice girls". I'll give you a few moments.
...
Surprised? Would it also surprise you that the term "spic" receives the same results? Also kiddie porn, kkk, prussian blue... And a lot of others.
( The Explanation )( ETA 1 )( ETA 2 )( ETA 3 )( List of Unseachables )
ETA 4: 8:30 AM EST and still no response. This kind of reminds me of the way my dad acted when the Big Questions came up. (Specifically, the, "if you can say it, why can't I?" question. I never got an answer there either.)
We'll start from the top with an example. Try to search for the interest "spice girls". I'll give you a few moments.
...
Surprised? Would it also surprise you that the term "spic" receives the same results? Also kiddie porn, kkk, prussian blue... And a lot of others.
( The Explanation )( ETA 1 )( ETA 2 )( ETA 3 )( List of Unseachables )
ETA 4: 8:30 AM EST and still no response. This kind of reminds me of the way my dad acted when the Big Questions came up. (Specifically, the, "if you can say it, why can't I?" question. I never got an answer there either.)
Welcome to the city of ElJay
Sep. 29th, 2007 11:59 pmSomedays I kill me. Expect to see more of this once I figure out where I want it to go. :D
( Presenting... BanMan )
( Presenting... BanMan )
Stan Strikes a Pose
Sep. 26th, 2007 12:12 pmWell, it's quite obvious that I have no dignity left. Sleep loss has stolen the last of it from me. That said, I bring you another work of Stan the Ban Man, pose suggested by niko_hime. Preview:
( Waiting to TOS you )
And finally... an idea that may be a preview. :D
niko_hime. Preview:( Waiting to TOS you )
And finally... an idea that may be a preview. :D
Stan the Ban Man
Sep. 23rd, 2007 01:30 amWell, the 6A puff now has a name, courtesy of niko_hime. He is... Stan the Ban Man. In celebration, he now also has a magnifying glass and a name tag. XD I feel like I'm going to be playing with him a lot in the future. As always, be gentle with posting him, unless you're aiming for bannination. In that case, be as rough as you like. ( Stan likes it rough. He's also a vouyer. )
niko_hime. He is... Stan the Ban Man. In celebration, he now also has a magnifying glass and a name tag. XD I feel like I'm going to be playing with him a lot in the future. As always, be gentle with posting him, unless you're aiming for bannination. In that case, be as rough as you like. ( Stan likes it rough. He's also a vouyer. )Protest Art
Sep. 22nd, 2007 12:46 pmUpdate on Aunt: Not good - and that's all I'll say. I've been poking around LJ latestest and stupidest move (the news post where they're screening things they don't like) to distract myself.
This reminded me of some protest artwork I did that I haven't posted here yet. ^_^; If you like them, feel free to use them, but please, please don't post them where they'll get a journal you care about banned. LJ has enough opportunity to ban us all without unnecessarily giving them opportunities. The macro in the second one is fromsarahlogan, though I don't know if she made it or not. So place nice with it please.
All of that said, if you feel the urge to try for banning, have at. :D Post them anywhere you like - credit appreciated, of course.
( To Art )
news post where they're screening things they don't like) to distract myself.This reminded me of some protest artwork I did that I haven't posted here yet. ^_^; If you like them, feel free to use them, but please, please don't post them where they'll get a journal you care about banned. LJ has enough opportunity to ban us all without unnecessarily giving them opportunities. The macro in the second one is from
sarahlogan, though I don't know if she made it or not. So place nice with it please.All of that said, if you feel the urge to try for banning, have at. :D Post them anywhere you like - credit appreciated, of course.
( To Art )
Hope Springs - sort of.
Sep. 17th, 2007 10:11 amAs we've all heard (and rejoiced) by now, Barak Berkowitz has resigned. If you want to read the official word on the subject, here's the press release and here's the unofficial source. Both are little more than "yay team" and mindless buzzwords, so don't expect much from them. 6A, as per their usual pattern, announced it on Friday in lj_biz and had no one standing by to handle the (relatively minor, in this case) fallout. The extremely stupid part of this mess? After leaving the post open for comments, it was rapidly turned to screened and then all comments were disabled. Since I don't see any reason for this at all, in any way, shape or form, I suspect that someone panicked at the thought of 5000 renditions of "ding, dong, the witch is dead" when they're trying to pretend everything's gravy. So what do people do? The usual. Move to the last post and start bitching.
( The long and short of everything I've heard lately... )
Ahem. Onto the cheery parts. The new CEO is Christopher J. Alden, who used to be EVP and GM of the Professional Division at 6A. I don't know about the rest of LJ, but I've never heard of him. Thus, being a curious Faery by nature, I followed a link over to see what kind of smackdown we can expect next. What I saw gives me hope. Not much, mind you, but a little bit. ( Here's the important parts. )
What this says for "potentially objectionable" forms of self-expression is up in the air still, of course, and I'm not holding my breath over even getting them defined, much less getting an answer I like. Will he be just another Barak? Maybe. Are we going to see LJ go FUBAR? Probably. But still, I think there's some hope here. The man's only been CEO for three days, two of them weekend. I'm willing to give him some time to identify the mess Barak left him and start to address it. Not much, but even if he starts to admit there might be problems, it'll be more than we had before.
NOTE:bubble_blunder replied to the post I linked and got a response. Okay, so it's a "let's set up a phone call" response, but it's officially more than anyone's gotten Barak (who ignored us like we'd go away if he did). I'll keep an eye on bubble_blunder's journal to see if there are any updates.
References
A Company that Matters
Official Press Release
About Six Apart @ Mena's Corner
Running Dog
lj_biz and had no one standing by to handle the (relatively minor, in this case) fallout. The extremely stupid part of this mess? After leaving the post open for comments, it was rapidly turned to screened and then all comments were disabled. Since I don't see any reason for this at all, in any way, shape or form, I suspect that someone panicked at the thought of 5000 renditions of "ding, dong, the witch is dead" when they're trying to pretend everything's gravy. So what do people do? The usual. Move to the last post and start bitching.( The long and short of everything I've heard lately... )
Ahem. Onto the cheery parts. The new CEO is Christopher J. Alden, who used to be EVP and GM of the Professional Division at 6A. I don't know about the rest of LJ, but I've never heard of him. Thus, being a curious Faery by nature, I followed a link over to see what kind of smackdown we can expect next. What I saw gives me hope. Not much, mind you, but a little bit. ( Here's the important parts. )
What this says for "potentially objectionable" forms of self-expression is up in the air still, of course, and I'm not holding my breath over even getting them defined, much less getting an answer I like. Will he be just another Barak? Maybe. Are we going to see LJ go FUBAR? Probably. But still, I think there's some hope here. The man's only been CEO for three days, two of them weekend. I'm willing to give him some time to identify the mess Barak left him and start to address it. Not much, but even if he starts to admit there might be problems, it'll be more than we had before.
NOTE:
bubble_blunder replied to the post I linked and got a response. Okay, so it's a "let's set up a phone call" response, but it's officially more than anyone's gotten Barak (who ignored us like we'd go away if he did). I'll keep an eye on bubble_blunder's journal to see if there are any updates.References
A Company that Matters
Official Press Release
About Six Apart @ Mena's Corner
Running Dog
Another LJ FUBAR issue
Aug. 31st, 2007 03:42 pmHallo, loves. Long time no post. Here's the deal; work's evil (EVIL), free-time when I get home is spent napping most days (I switched to morning shift from the night shift, so I'm basically waking up about when I used to go to bed, give or take an hour or two) and weekends pain me with the pointless running about which accomplishes nothing. Still, I work tomorrow (yay 6 day work week? ;-;), so hopefully I'll have time to see about getting some things accomplished. The least of these things will be transferring my posts to my GJ (same username), and archiving them in other locations.
(The other things will be the finishing of beta-reading a particular GO fic which I've only been sporadically handling thanks to aforementioned sleeping and working. If it doesn't get done at work, it'll get done at home, one way or the other!)
( Why am I doing this so suddenly? )
So I'm backing up, archiving, and basically getting ready for the big one to land. I'm not gone, but I no longer feel safe not having a back-up journal or three. LJ is just about the only place I post my fiction regularly anymore. The fact that I might be forced to abandon it saddens me more than text can show.
Finally,rachel posted on innocence_jihad. I replied to her (because we all know I'm incapable of shutting up, lol), and feel the urge to post it here. The topics I addressed are the LJ-to-User miscommunications and the laws which they may or may not be applying. I'll edit this if she ever replies, but as of now she hasn't. I didn't address the shady dealings with the Permanent Account Bait-and-Switch, nor did I bring up the questionable legalities of LJ's actions. That sort of thing is guaranteed to not receive a response, and I'd very much like one.
( Under the cut )
(The other things will be the finishing of beta-reading a particular GO fic which I've only been sporadically handling thanks to aforementioned sleeping and working. If it doesn't get done at work, it'll get done at home, one way or the other!)
( Why am I doing this so suddenly? )
So I'm backing up, archiving, and basically getting ready for the big one to land. I'm not gone, but I no longer feel safe not having a back-up journal or three. LJ is just about the only place I post my fiction regularly anymore. The fact that I might be forced to abandon it saddens me more than text can show.
Finally,
rachel posted on innocence_jihad. I replied to her (because we all know I'm incapable of shutting up, lol), and feel the urge to post it here. The topics I addressed are the LJ-to-User miscommunications and the laws which they may or may not be applying. I'll edit this if she ever replies, but as of now she hasn't. I didn't address the shady dealings with the Permanent Account Bait-and-Switch, nor did I bring up the questionable legalities of LJ's actions. That sort of thing is guaranteed to not receive a response, and I'd very much like one.( Under the cut )
Nesting Online
Aug. 17th, 2007 11:58 am*sigh* Well, LJ has cluster-fucked again. This time they seem to have decided that Child Porn = Art. ponderosa121 is down for posting art with "underaged minors", though any idiot can see that the particular piece stomped on only contained adults, and was chock-full of artistic merit. (I myself envy her ability with backgrounds and hands.) Basically, the LJ staff pulled a knee-jerk, went "ew, gay!" and it seems like they couldn't get passed that. I adored her work, to be honest, and I didn't even know she was on LJ. Now that she's gone I feel like I missed something good. *sigh* I followed her back in 1x2x1 on Yahoo!Groups. She's been invited back to LJ of course (they've shown they jump when users scream about particularly well-known artists and comms being banned), but I don't blame her for not coming back.
Note: AfterStrikethrough became a widely-used term synonymous with "LJ Fuck-Up", they seem to have changed the coding for banned/deleted journals from a Strikethrough to a Bolded. I wonder what they'll do when Boldthrough joins its predecessor in infamy? My bet is "[Suspended User]".
To be completely honest, LJ is trying to address art as "obscene" rather than "child porn", but they're looking specifically at underage-obscenity. Do we really all need to go over the whole "I know it when I see it" fiasco? Obscenity is beastly hard to prove, but they seem to have decided "better safe than sued". (Or, more accurately, "Better safe than lost advertisers," or, "Better safe than lost IPO.") Even disclaimers aren't holding up, nor is previously-deleted material. After the wholeStrikethrough 2007 mess, I've been watching them pretty closely, and at this point I've made some (expected) discoveries.
Yes, this is going to be insulting. I feel the need to blow off steam, and unlikecoffeechica and rachel (LJ staffers/offenders), I am capable of doing so in a non-official capacity.
I'm not going anywhere yet, but I'm looking around for other sites. Pretty soon I'll post a link to whatever alternate-journal I'm putting together, and start transferring my stuff. LJ isn't my online home so much as my online nest. I'm comfortable here, and I've collected quite a few bright and shiny things that would be difficult to move and re-coordinate (Friends, communities, etc.), but I'm not so attached that I'll put up with abuse from Abuse. It won't be fun if I have to move, but I'll do it. Call this a precautionary measure, like collecting canned food in case of an earthquake in California. You don't want it to happen, but you know it will. The only question left is, "Will it hit me and my friends too?"
If anyone has any suggestions for journal sites I should look into, let me know. I'd rather it be free, but I can dig out a small (small!) fee from my wallet if I have to. Also let me know if an of you are planning on building safety-nests for yourself elsewhere. The location of my friends will definitely influence my decision regarding my new nest.
ETA: Greatest Journal is looking like a decent option so far. Yes, Blogger and InsaneJournal look more professional, but GJ provides a nice, simple list of what I can get by way of photos, icons, etc. I'd be more interested in JournalFen if they were open to new accounts (you would think they'd be taking advantage of Boldthrough), but they also don't have a list of service enticements. They're still a major option though, since it's safe for fans there. Also, it looks like my layouts will work om GJ as well as LJ, which would be nice. I'm looking at starting to create all of my own layouts (not thattwilightified isn't amazing, but I want to switch them up more often and I'm too lazy to go looking for truly awesome layouts every few weeks), and not having to toss my initial ventures is a definite plus. Does anyone have any experience with GJ, positive or negative? LJ isn't threatening me (yet), so I have time to make sure my next home is secure.
Also, if I do end up moving, I probably won't abandon this LJ entirely. I'll keep up with a few communities and such (mostlyhogwartsishome ), but I won't post fiction or art, and I doubt I'll really update on personal issues either.
ETA2 (Revenge of the Sporks): Mozilla plugin, Deepest Sender? Completely and utterly awesomesauce, if I can get it to work.
ponderosa121 is down for posting art with "underaged minors", though any idiot can see that the particular piece stomped on only contained adults, and was chock-full of artistic merit. (I myself envy her ability with backgrounds and hands.) Basically, the LJ staff pulled a knee-jerk, went "ew, gay!" and it seems like they couldn't get passed that. I adored her work, to be honest, and I didn't even know she was on LJ. Now that she's gone I feel like I missed something good. *sigh* I followed her back in 1x2x1 on Yahoo!Groups. She's been invited back to LJ of course (they've shown they jump when users scream about particularly well-known artists and comms being banned), but I don't blame her for not coming back. Note: After
To be completely honest, LJ is trying to address art as "obscene" rather than "child porn", but they're looking specifically at underage-obscenity. Do we really all need to go over the whole "I know it when I see it" fiasco? Obscenity is beastly hard to prove, but they seem to have decided "better safe than sued". (Or, more accurately, "Better safe than lost advertisers," or, "Better safe than lost IPO.") Even disclaimers aren't holding up, nor is previously-deleted material. After the whole
Yes, this is going to be insulting. I feel the need to blow off steam, and unlike
coffeechica and rachel (LJ staffers/offenders), I am capable of doing so in a non-official capacity. - No one on the LJ staff or the 6A team is able to find their asses with both hands and a map. How they expect to cover them if they can't find them is beyond me, but I'm sure they'll at least try.
- Neither the LJ staff nor the 6A team is capable of making reasoned, non-biased judgments about what kind of socks to wear in the morning, much less what constitutes artistic/social/scientific/literary value and merit.
- Collectively, the entire paid (not volunteer) Abuse Team seems to have stopped taking art classes in kindergarten, and possibly think three plaster ducks is a bit avant-garde.
- Text wasn't mentioned in the changes, and since that was what caused the greatest number of cat macros in the last wank-storm, I can only assume that:
- The Trolls aren't attacking/reporting text yet.
- The LJ staff/6A team isn't attacking reported-text yet.
- The Trolls are illiterate.
- The LJ Staff/6A team are illiterate.
- All of the above.
- The Trolls aren't attacking/reporting text yet.
- Finally, the LJ/6A staff have no concept of what constitutes good customer service in regards to their users.
- This makes a certain sort of sense, as we're not customers anymore. We are, however, content providers, and therefore possibly more important than mere customers. This is something they have yet to grasp.
- If LJ loses its customers (advertisers), they can always find more quite easily. The Users will still be around, pumping out content and luring more advertisers and eyeballs in.
- If LJ loses the users, not only is it losing eyeballs and the content that attracts them, but it won't be long before it loses advertisers. It's harder to attract new content (and users) without old content (and users) than it is to attract new advertisers with new content.
I equate it to fishing. Any good fisher-person will tell you that bait is important. The content and users are the bait, both to potential users and advertisers. With out that, they've got nothing. - This makes a certain sort of sense, as we're not customers anymore. We are, however, content providers, and therefore possibly more important than mere customers. This is something they have yet to grasp.
I'm not going anywhere yet, but I'm looking around for other sites. Pretty soon I'll post a link to whatever alternate-journal I'm putting together, and start transferring my stuff. LJ isn't my online home so much as my online nest. I'm comfortable here, and I've collected quite a few bright and shiny things that would be difficult to move and re-coordinate (Friends, communities, etc.), but I'm not so attached that I'll put up with abuse from Abuse. It won't be fun if I have to move, but I'll do it. Call this a precautionary measure, like collecting canned food in case of an earthquake in California. You don't want it to happen, but you know it will. The only question left is, "Will it hit me and my friends too?"
If anyone has any suggestions for journal sites I should look into, let me know. I'd rather it be free, but I can dig out a small (small!) fee from my wallet if I have to. Also let me know if an of you are planning on building safety-nests for yourself elsewhere. The location of my friends will definitely influence my decision regarding my new nest.
ETA: Greatest Journal is looking like a decent option so far. Yes, Blogger and InsaneJournal look more professional, but GJ provides a nice, simple list of what I can get by way of photos, icons, etc. I'd be more interested in JournalFen if they were open to new accounts (you would think they'd be taking advantage of Boldthrough), but they also don't have a list of service enticements. They're still a major option though, since it's safe for fans there. Also, it looks like my layouts will work om GJ as well as LJ, which would be nice. I'm looking at starting to create all of my own layouts (not that
twilightified isn't amazing, but I want to switch them up more often and I'm too lazy to go looking for truly awesome layouts every few weeks), and not having to toss my initial ventures is a definite plus. Does anyone have any experience with GJ, positive or negative? LJ isn't threatening me (yet), so I have time to make sure my next home is secure. Also, if I do end up moving, I probably won't abandon this LJ entirely. I'll keep up with a few communities and such (mostly
hogwartsishome ), but I won't post fiction or art, and I doubt I'll really update on personal issues either. ETA2 (Revenge of the Sporks): Mozilla plugin, Deepest Sender? Completely and utterly awesomesauce, if I can get it to work.
