Content Strike: Friday March 21

[beckyzoole]

The one-day content strike is on for this Friday, March 21, from midnight GMT to midnight GMT.

For 24 hours, we will not post or comment to LJ. Not in our own journals, not in communities. Not publicly, privately, or under friends-lock.

This is a protest that will have long-lasting effects, showing up forever in the daily posting statistics

Comments

[kightp]

I haven't been reading the LJ communities lately, and I have no idea what this is about. Can you point me to a link that explains the purpose?

[wvusublime]

My guess would be here. SUP no longer allows new users to create Basic Accounts- you now have to sign up for an ad-supported Plus Account, or a Paid Account.

[kightp]

Ah.

If LJ's decision is based on a desire to get more revenue for its services, I don't see how a strike - which could, if it were widespread, cut the company's costs for that day significantly - is an especially effective protest action.

[azurelunatic]

The fewer ads viewed and clicked through, the less advertising revenue, so it wouldn't just be costs that are going down.

And the reason they have so many people here looking at the ads is the content. We control the content. This is a demonstration of that control.

I believe this is more a protest of how the situation was handled (poorly!) than necessarily a protest of the business decision. If it's a business decision you have to make, make it, and announce it as such, and beforehand. Do not conceal it and spin it.

[detached9]

Pretty much completely agreed. As I've told other people. these protests are going to be just as effective as those "don't buy gas this day" ones.

In this case, I won't be near my computer on Friday because I'll be with relatives anyways.