FUCK NOT WITH FANDOM
So I’m sure most of you have already heard about LiveJournal’s lackluster apology and about the return of the unfairly suspended journals (and all we had to do was max out the comments of two news posts), but here are the links for anyone who’s interested.
LiveJournal fucked-up big-time. They lost money, they lost face, and, most importantly, they lost the respect of the users who made their site so popular in the first place.
They bit us, and we bit back.
I’m still not satisfied with the way things are right now, because this isn’t over yet.
LiveJournal showed its customers a compete lack of respect and courtesy, and that was unacceptable. They don’t deserve our thanks for putting back together that which they had broken in the first place.
This has taught me that I am not valued.
We-as fen, as longstanding/devoted/paying LiveJournal users-are not valued.
We need a guarantee that this kind of thing will never happen to us again.
We need LiveJournal to value us, the people who actually use it, above a right-wing nut-job vigilante group or a member of the press.
LiveJournal owes each person who was unfairly suspended and vilified a personal apology and compensation for the days their account was suspended. It owes them the barest courtesy of going to the sites that now group those innocent people in among pedophiles and rapists and having those sites take down these people’s journal or community names.
LiveJournal is not the thing it once was.
This has taught us, perhaps, not to be so unguarded; not to trust it so blindly.
When we needed it to defend us, LiveJournal abandoned us. Furthermore, it stigmatized us; hunted us down.
We need to remember that, and to learn from it.
I can only hope that LiveJournal has learned from its mistakes. But if it hasn’t? I trust that fandom can and will pull together and fight it like we did here.
At least one good thing has come from all of this. The power of fans has been recognized and utilized. We joined together despite all differences, despite all rivalries and unfamiliarity, and we achieved something.
I am proud of fandom right now. I am proud to be a member of fandom.
Well-done, everyone. Well-fucking-done.
Now let’s go write some boyporn!
LiveJournal fucked-up big-time. They lost money, they lost face, and, most importantly, they lost the respect of the users who made their site so popular in the first place.
They bit us, and we bit back.
I’m still not satisfied with the way things are right now, because this isn’t over yet.
LiveJournal showed its customers a compete lack of respect and courtesy, and that was unacceptable. They don’t deserve our thanks for putting back together that which they had broken in the first place.
This has taught me that I am not valued.
We-as fen, as longstanding/devoted/paying LiveJournal users-are not valued.
We need a guarantee that this kind of thing will never happen to us again.
We need LiveJournal to value us, the people who actually use it, above a right-wing nut-job vigilante group or a member of the press.
LiveJournal owes each person who was unfairly suspended and vilified a personal apology and compensation for the days their account was suspended. It owes them the barest courtesy of going to the sites that now group those innocent people in among pedophiles and rapists and having those sites take down these people’s journal or community names.
LiveJournal is not the thing it once was.
This has taught us, perhaps, not to be so unguarded; not to trust it so blindly.
When we needed it to defend us, LiveJournal abandoned us. Furthermore, it stigmatized us; hunted us down.
We need to remember that, and to learn from it.
I can only hope that LiveJournal has learned from its mistakes. But if it hasn’t? I trust that fandom can and will pull together and fight it like we did here.
At least one good thing has come from all of this. The power of fans has been recognized and utilized. We joined together despite all differences, despite all rivalries and unfamiliarity, and we achieved something.
I am proud of fandom right now. I am proud to be a member of fandom.
Well-done, everyone. Well-fucking-done.
Now let’s go write some boyporn!