marta reads my journal, at least right now. We met at the LJ/SUP party. She is cool people.
I think she has been dragged into a cesspit and given a small sponge and scrub brush to clean up with, but has been told the sewage will stop pumping in, so in time, she and her fellow dupes friendly staffmembers will be permitted to put LJ back to something the rest of us are willing to be associated with.
I am honestly hopeful about it. What I met of the staff & abuse team convinced me that the new LJ really does want to make customers happy--and they know how LJ works, and what's important to us. (Although they don't know all the details all the time, 'cos nobody can keep up with all that stuff. But they know the difference between "I'm annoyed that my posting options keep defaulting to RTF when I want HTML--I want a preference setting that lets it always start where I want it" vs "I'm annoyed at Snap DIE DIE DIE MAKE IT GO AWAY.") They're paying attention, and they know *how* to pay attention to LJ users.
(There are a handful of them, some of whom are not PR people, and many bazillions of us. I'm willing to cut them some slack on not answering all comments on the News/Biz/Policy/2008 posts quickly.)
However, I have my firm set of criteria for what it'd take for me to be willing to (a) pay for and (b) recommend LiveJournal... and I don't think those are going to be met. I think what I'd need to trust LJ is more than any modern business is going to provide its customers--and *future* customers won't make such unreasonable demands, so they'll deal with losing a good many of the existing ones, write us off as "what LJ lost through 6A's idiocy," and try to move on.
Ahh, interesting! And funny as hell, like all your posts -- small sponge and a scrub brush indeed; now why is it a cess-pit-cleaning simile is so very apt for 6A? :-)
I agree with your analysis, and your criteria for restored trust. Looking at it objectively, we are living in today's "surveillance" climate (created by all the wackos like Homeland Security and Save our [Unborn] Children, even though they claim to be protecting people from it). And here you have LJ, with so many fans on it who celebrate their artistic and political freedom with srs 'adult concepts' and at the same time so many teenagers. It may be purely impossible for LJ, with their visibility and this rather wild mix (including some rather wild thinkers) to avoid attracting attention, and that almost -- not quite, hence the bitterness of many -- forces them lay down the blue-nosed laws.
My concern is that quite frankly, the small handful of young'uns you describe, most of whom aren't social and cross-cultural communication types, will never be up to the challenges of dealing with a very large number of very ornery, talky, thinky, outspoken users.
Does that make any sense? (If not, it's because it's past my bedtime and my brain is slumping into mush like last month's pumpkin!)
I think she has been dragged into a cesspit and given a small sponge and scrub brush to clean up with, but has been told the sewage will stop pumping in, so in time, she and her fellow dupes friendly staffmembers will be permitted to put LJ back to something the rest of us are willing to be associated with.
I am honestly hopeful about it. What I met of the staff & abuse team convinced me that the new LJ really does want to make customers happy--and they know how LJ works, and what's important to us. (Although they don't know all the details all the time, 'cos nobody can keep up with all that stuff. But they know the difference between "I'm annoyed that my posting options keep defaulting to RTF when I want HTML--I want a preference setting that lets it always start where I want it" vs "I'm annoyed at Snap DIE DIE DIE MAKE IT GO AWAY.") They're paying attention, and they know *how* to pay attention to LJ users.
(There are a handful of them, some of whom are not PR people, and many bazillions of us. I'm willing to cut them some slack on not answering all comments on the News/Biz/Policy/2008 posts quickly.)
However, I have my firm set of criteria for what it'd take for me to be willing to (a) pay for and (b) recommend LiveJournal... and I don't think those are going to be met. I think what I'd need to trust LJ is more than any modern business is going to provide its customers--and *future* customers won't make such unreasonable demands, so they'll deal with losing a good many of the existing ones, write us off as "what LJ lost through 6A's idiocy," and try to move on.
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I agree with your analysis, and your criteria for restored trust. Looking at it objectively, we are living in today's "surveillance" climate (created by all the wackos like Homeland Security and Save our [Unborn] Children, even though they claim to be protecting people from it). And here you have LJ, with so many fans on it who celebrate their artistic and political freedom with srs 'adult concepts' and at the same time so many teenagers. It may be purely impossible for LJ, with their visibility and this rather wild mix (including some rather wild thinkers) to avoid attracting attention, and that almost -- not quite, hence the bitterness of many -- forces them lay down the blue-nosed laws.
My concern is that quite frankly, the small handful of young'uns you describe, most of whom aren't social and cross-cultural communication types, will never be up to the challenges of dealing with a very large number of very ornery, talky, thinky, outspoken users.
Does that make any sense? (If not, it's because it's past my bedtime and my brain is slumping into mush like last month's pumpkin!)
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