And yet more on CrossPostGate.
More and more unpleasantness has been creeping out over the whole CrossPostGate furore.
LJ has announced it is actually going to be the code that enables cross-posting to Twitter and FB so that it will no longer be possible to cross-post comments from a locked post, only a public one; it will not be possible to cross-post screened comments, even from a public post. However despite announcing this as a major change, they won't be implementing it for another 2 weeks.
And whilst some staff members are not happy with the whole idea of cross-posting in the first place, it seems one particular staffer - brenden has created his own sockpuppet account, getyourownbitch to actively troll LJ users on the News post. Nice, huh? [ETA] brenden has since gone through and deleted all the comments he made using his sockpuppet account; however
jessicaarnold has kindly archived them here.
It's not the first time an LJ staffer has acted against LJ official policy, either; there's the case of an LJ staffer, dnewhall, using his staff admin powers to leave a creepy comment on a locked post (difficult, but possible as he had database access at the time) back in May. He tried to claim that the post was public at the time (it wasn't), it was then looked at by further LJ staffers, who changed the privacy of that post to Public and changed tag settings so tags could be added and then claimed the post had been public all along.
Just think about that for a few minutes.
And dnewhall still has admin powers. Unlike a similar incident a few years back where a female staffer leaked information from locked posts and was promptly suspended.
I still have 8 invite codes for those who want them; codes are also available at
dw_codesharing, or see DW's latest news post - due to the shut-down of Vox, DW is offering free acounts to Vox users - you can create an account using the code VOX, which will work until the end of the month.
Please disseminate this information widely, and feel free to link to this entry which is being cross-posted on DW (public), my personal LJ (friends-only), integralthought (public),
arkadiandreams and my IJ (public).
Originally posted at "http://arkady.dreamwidth.org/1249492.html"; you may comment either there or here.
LJ has announced it is actually going to be the code that enables cross-posting to Twitter and FB so that it will no longer be possible to cross-post comments from a locked post, only a public one; it will not be possible to cross-post screened comments, even from a public post. However despite announcing this as a major change, they won't be implementing it for another 2 weeks.
And whilst some staff members are not happy with the whole idea of cross-posting in the first place, it seems one particular staffer - brenden has created his own sockpuppet account, getyourownbitch to actively troll LJ users on the News post. Nice, huh? [ETA] brenden has since gone through and deleted all the comments he made using his sockpuppet account; however
jessicaarnold has kindly archived them here.
It's not the first time an LJ staffer has acted against LJ official policy, either; there's the case of an LJ staffer, dnewhall, using his staff admin powers to leave a creepy comment on a locked post (difficult, but possible as he had database access at the time) back in May. He tried to claim that the post was public at the time (it wasn't), it was then looked at by further LJ staffers, who changed the privacy of that post to Public and changed tag settings so tags could be added and then claimed the post had been public all along.
Just think about that for a few minutes.
And dnewhall still has admin powers. Unlike a similar incident a few years back where a female staffer leaked information from locked posts and was promptly suspended.
I still have 8 invite codes for those who want them; codes are also available at
dw_codesharing, or see DW's latest news post - due to the shut-down of Vox, DW is offering free acounts to Vox users - you can create an account using the code VOX, which will work until the end of the month.
Please disseminate this information widely, and feel free to link to this entry which is being cross-posted on DW (public), my personal LJ (friends-only), integralthought (public),
arkadiandreams and my IJ (public).
Originally posted at "http://arkady.dreamwidth.org/1249492.html"; you may comment either there or here.