LJ Content Strike
So... seems LJ is trying to pull a fast one.
Quoted from Brad's journal:
...today, SUP has apparently removed Basic accounts altogether:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=38&view=full
...
"Basic Account is an option available to accounts which were created before March 12, 2008. No account created after this date can be turned into a Basic Account."
...
I advised against this (when I heard a rumor about it awhile back). I hadn't heard anything recently about it. Perhaps they interpreted my advice as "well, okay, then maybe we'll at least grandfather the existing Basic users, and not convert them all to Plus..."
In any case, SUP apparently sees no value in freeloaders not looking at ads, not paying, and oh wait... producing most the content for other members to read, other members who are looking at ads and paying for their accounts.
Let's hope my permanent account is grandfathered.
Yours truly,
Brad Fitzpatrick
LiveJournal Advisory Board Member
In response to this, there's going to be a content strike which I will be taking part in.
For those of you who don't already know, there has been a strike scheduled for Friday, March 21st, 2008, during which we hope to have many members of LiveJournal provide LJ with absolutely no content for twenty-four hours. This means no posting and no commenting. If you post elsewhere and have it set up to be posted through a feed on LiveJournal, don't do it. Stay away from LiveJournal for twenty-four hours. (http://oasis6028.livejournal.com/15033.html)
Strike Times.
There are a few other reasons for this strike listed here. Check out number four, specifically, for another very good reason to be unhappy with Six Apart.
Though I don't post every day, I am most certainly on here most days, catching up on my flist and leaving loads of comments. Friday I definitely won't be. I'm not normally one to get into silly boycotting/strike-type things because 99% of the time they're pretty ineffective. I think this one, however, has a chance of making an impact. What's LJ without us, after all?
(Thanks to lothlorienlover for bringing this to my attention.)
Quoted from Brad's journal:
...today, SUP has apparently removed Basic accounts altogether:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=38&view=full
...
"Basic Account is an option available to accounts which were created before March 12, 2008. No account created after this date can be turned into a Basic Account."
...
I advised against this (when I heard a rumor about it awhile back). I hadn't heard anything recently about it. Perhaps they interpreted my advice as "well, okay, then maybe we'll at least grandfather the existing Basic users, and not convert them all to Plus..."
In any case, SUP apparently sees no value in freeloaders not looking at ads, not paying, and oh wait... producing most the content for other members to read, other members who are looking at ads and paying for their accounts.
Let's hope my permanent account is grandfathered.
Yours truly,
Brad Fitzpatrick
LiveJournal Advisory Board Member
In response to this, there's going to be a content strike which I will be taking part in.
For those of you who don't already know, there has been a strike scheduled for Friday, March 21st, 2008, during which we hope to have many members of LiveJournal provide LJ with absolutely no content for twenty-four hours. This means no posting and no commenting. If you post elsewhere and have it set up to be posted through a feed on LiveJournal, don't do it. Stay away from LiveJournal for twenty-four hours. (http://oasis6028.livejournal.com/15033.html)
Strike Times.
There are a few other reasons for this strike listed here. Check out number four, specifically, for another very good reason to be unhappy with Six Apart.
Though I don't post every day, I am most certainly on here most days, catching up on my flist and leaving loads of comments. Friday I definitely won't be. I'm not normally one to get into silly boycotting/strike-type things because 99% of the time they're pretty ineffective. I think this one, however, has a chance of making an impact. What's LJ without us, after all?
(Thanks to lothlorienlover for bringing this to my attention.)