Sad, but true...

[brad]

czircon writes: LiveJournal is really going to shit lately. The "sponsored communities" are bad enough; now we have to put up with ads on the front page as well? And not just banner ads, but ads with Flash and fake forms to fill out because they think it's more likely to trick you into clicking on it? Ugh. Unfortunately I'm pretty much stuck here.
*sigh*

Comments

[rival]

It always surprises me when you say stuff like this -- as the original founder of LiveJournal, why don't you have more control over company policy?

[brad]

You can't be involved in everything. I can give my opinions on lots of things pretty easily, often multiple times and passionately, but I can't follow every issue to completion, making sure I "win". So there's bound to be times that I lose, like this.

[evan]

I like to think (or at least wish, in a good-intentioned way) you have bigger and better things to worry about! That doesn't make it any less lame though.

[brad]

Yeah, that's the tradeoff... I see a lot of things being done not how I'd do them, but at least by my not doing them, I have time for the things I am doing.

[satiredun]

I wasn't even aware of the ads until you pointed them out, because since i only post from home, its logged in all the time (not sure if that makes you feel better, but what the hell).
but i feel for you. i would imagine it would be like hearing a song you made used for some crappy commercial, against your wishes.