The aforementioned important announcement
Well, folks, we tried.
Tried to be a democracy, that is. Unfortunately, the more we tried to humor the concept of making everyone happy and being all things to all people, the more fucked up and unmanageable the community became.
Just like America!
But I digress. Oh, yeah, the democracy thing. In the face of rapidly growing membership and ever-increasing numbers of posts about teenaged girls with fake boyfriends, fake babies, real babies and fake mamas, fake popes and general Livejournal hoaxery -- no, wait, just hoaxery in general, because a lot of it was off of lj entirely -- we decided that in order to maintain the original spirit of the community, democracy was going to have to be defenestrated (look it up if you need to). We are now officially a fascist dictatorship.
As of this evening, we return you to your originally scheduled activity:
investigating fake deaths on Livejournal.
againsthestream and I have discussed the specifics and determined that purported serious accidents or illnesses are still in keeping with the community's purpose, as well as possibly fictional miscarriages (but not healthy pregnancies or babies).
Since we started the community last August, plenty of offshoot communities have been founded to cover the stuff we will no longer be able to tackle. If you feel someone is faking in general, please post about it in _fake_ljers. For fake pregnancies, there is faking_pregnant. You get the picture. Oh, and for fake celebrity journals and ratings community posts? Just don't even. They're too common to even bother posting anywhere. Ditto fake racial stereotypes and emo boyfriends. Unless they die. Then we'll be all over it.
This isn't to say the off-topic drama hasn't had its share of gems. I've really enjoyed a lot of it, and, like many of you, I'll miss being able to get all my fake drama in one community. Unfortunately, every puppy has to grow up sometime, and now is that time for fake_lj_deaths. Thanks everybody for your contributions and your patience with the off-topic stuff, and againsthestream and I thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
Your humble co-mod tupelo