LJ Content Strike (from evendia)
On Friday, March 21st, 2008 (for us HI kids it actually starts on Thursday at 2:00PM) there will be a 24 hour Content Strike on Livejournal. This means no posting, no commenting, no posting elsewhere and then sending it to LJ via a feed, nothing. This is to protest the way the new owners of Livejournal have been handling the site.
The Content Strike is a way of showing LJ community solidarity and of letting the new owners know that as users "we're watching the changes they are making, that we're paying attention, that we're discontent, and that we want to be heard and taken in to consideration. We are not simply users who can be tossed to the side and ignored. We are the people who make up LiveJournal. Without us, without the content we create, without our words, our voices, our creativity, our participation, there would be no LiveJournal. This is a fact, and it needs to be realized and understood and then taken in to consideration when making decisions regarding the way that LiveJournal is run." (evendia's words, which I lifted because I felt that they were already incredibly powerful without any editing from me.)
For background on this strike and why it is being held, please read the following posts:
http://beckyzoole.livejournal.com/394838.html
http://beckyzoole.livejournal.com/395310.html
To find out exactly when the strike begins and ends, depending on where you are located, please see this:
http://beckyzoole.livejournal.com/395125.html
What's this about?
* It's about free and ad-free LiveJournal accounts being abolished for new members, ignoring the advice from the newly-formed Advisory Board.
* It's about LJ staff trying to sneak this decision in under the radar, and when people found out, telling the users it was done 'to make the signup process less confusing'.
* It's about LJ staff failing to apologize for trying to hide the facts from view and for lying about the actual reasons for their actions.
* And finally, it's about the latest decision to hide certain user interests from the list of Most Popular Interests, some of them being fanfiction, bisexuality, sex and depression. This decision was not announced or explained in any way. Users found out for themselves.
Again, thanks to evendia for posting about this on her lj, otherwise I probably would've been totally in the dark.