So much going on with LJ:
Barak's follow-up to their follow-up to their fuck-up
Barak's announcement of the permanent account sale and a list of 6A's intentions
The official announcement of the permanent account sale and much rehashing of Strikethrough 2007.
Lots of people questioning LJ's timing of the incident and the sale, asking when these nebulous changes are going into effect (and what LJ means by "willing to host"), and a WHOLE lot of "I was going to go perm but now I'm rethinking" or just flat out "no frelling way." And an interesting new community has sprouted up:
never_permanent.So much fallout, but I empathize. I've had a perm account since the 2005 sale, and I don't regret it, and deep down I want to believe that LJ is still a worthwhile community, but there is a nagging part of me that not only feels very strongly for the fanfic communities affected by this nonsense, but I also wonder - will I be next? Yes, it's just a blog, but it's still very disturbing and uncomfortable for me.
Edited to add:
hughcasey posted about the same group that got the accounts banned in the first place is now targetting LJ advertisers. Thinking of the children, or internet thugs? You decide!- Current Mood:
contemplative
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"The moderation/management here is terrible"
"If you hate it so much, why are you staying?"
"So many people talk about leaving, but they don't actually leave" and so forth. I don't know what the effect of it all is going to be, but I'm passing on the account sale again, although not because of this. I'm passing because it's a lot of money, six years is a long time in Internet Time to get one's money's worth, and I barely use all of my Paid Account features as it is.
Strikethrough 2007. As many problems as the Dope has (remember, I was suspended once, myself), I never felt that level of discomfort there (and although I wasn't one of the affected accounts, it really did give me great pause).Yet I still have paid accounts on both services. Funny that. I guess, deep down, I still believe in them as communities, even if I am sometimes unsure of their owner's business decisions.
In comparison, I'm actually more likely to say that the Dope played more fast and loose with their interpretations of the rules, but, as you say, it simply never affected as many people all at once, which to me seems just as bad.
The rehashing of the strikethrough thing is, in my opinion, just another telling of the same thing that everyone has already said. There are more posts about this out there now than almost anything and this sale just gave more fuel to that fire. It was just a few embers, things were begining to get back to normal a little and this just fanned it back up. Honestly - I know that it was difficult for a lot of people and I have been through this with CafePress (in that case it was a store I made money with and so when they deleted it they cut into my income - slightly more important than a blog and there were just as many of us affected) but you know what? We've all stopped posting about it in the CP boards. It's over. It's done. Reparations have been made and many appologies given.
I know journals are people's babies, I don't discount their worthiness or their necessity in people's lives. But there is a point at which you have to say, it's done and I give no more energy to this issue.
just sayin.