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Jun 21, 2006 18:08

did you know that s+ accounts are the most popular on LJ?

hmm. i thought the most accounts are free accounts. i could be wrong. but i highly doubt it.

plus level statistics, pushing plus level, issues with plus accounts, changelog watch

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burberrystreet June 22 2006, 18:27:56 UTC
When LJ implemented s+ accounts, all free accounts were switched. That means all inactive accounts and all accounts of those who don't know the difference.

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kunzite1 June 22 2006, 19:03:03 UTC
my free account communities are still free accounts.

and i'm pretty sure that my test free accounts were still free when they switched over.

and all syndicated accounts are still free accounts.

that switch may have been a bug.

could you show me an example of an abandoned account that is s+?

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ex_uniquewo June 23 2006, 00:38:39 UTC
Don't you rather mean that all new accounts are s+ by default?

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burberrystreet June 23 2006, 00:48:41 UTC
Both my account and my abandoned account were switched to s+. I'm not sure about anything else, maybe they were just targeting me. :x

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ex_uniquewo June 23 2006, 00:52:20 UTC
That's weird. Do you remember when that happened? I see you're still s+ so you're okay with that?

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burberrystreet June 23 2006, 02:06:03 UTC
It was just when it first came out. I actually recently switched to s+.. i'm trying to figure out a way to cover up the ads, or maybe retain a mood theme without having a sponsored account.

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foxfirefey June 23 2006, 02:12:53 UTC
Covering up the ads is against the TOS, but if you switch back to Free, your mood theme won't change.

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burberrystreet June 23 2006, 02:41:03 UTC
Yeah, I know, same with Myspace, but I got it to work there anyway. I'm also willing to deal with a less obtrusive advertisement application, say with the layout i'm experimenting with now. I figure I'll give it a shot since I've been working on this goddamn mood theme for about four hours, and if it disappears when I switch back to free, I'm going to be royally pissed.

But punquin elegant, although advertisements are on the side bar and not just randomly scarring your page, is the least editable layout available for s2. It's ridiculous.

Also, while I'm finding it difficult to remove the iframe/class/id tags, I can remove the ugly h4s that say "ADVERTISEMENT" and I may be able to change the background of the frames to the same color as the rest of my page.

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foxfirefey June 23 2006, 02:43:15 UTC
I didn't say it wouldn't work. I said it was against the TOS. Which means if anyone who has a mind to report you notices, they could get you in trouble.

You sound very open to Sponsored+, so now I'm curious as to what purpose we serve to you.

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burberrystreet June 23 2006, 03:22:42 UTC
TOS, SCHTOS.

I like knowing what other people are saying about it, and I particularly like the informational setting of this blog. It's very uncommon in a livejournal setting, and I like reading and commenting on it. There certainly isn't one this good supporting Sponsored+. I figure I don't know enough about Sponsored+ to be open or closed to it, so I'm exploring the pros and cons. This blog has an extremely objective approach to doing just that.

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foxfirefey June 23 2006, 03:32:28 UTC
It's easy to say TOS, SCHTOS when you're not commenting in an environment where LJ employees or anti-Sponsored+ malcontents can see you talking about trying to break it. I'm cautioning you because you're in an environment hostile to your views, and you may find yourself taking flack for it.

I do thank you for the compliments.

You should hijack sponsoredplus from arctangent. Someone bought him a paid account just to piss him off, so he's not even Sponsored+ anymore.

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kunzite1 June 23 2006, 04:45:27 UTC
it's nice to know that you're interested in the S+ account level and the informational aspect of our community.

however, i will not support the cover-up of the advertisements as it is a violation of the terms of service.

you seem to disregard the terms of service as the law of the land here and i'm not going to listen to it.

if i'm incorrect in my assumptions, feel free to stay here.

otherwise, as a maintainer of this community and author of this entry, kindly remove yourself from commenting further to this entry. if you wish to comment on other entries that i have posted or will post, please refrain from speaking about breaking rules.

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burberrystreet June 23 2006, 05:00:32 UTC
Okay, sorry to have caused a problem. I won't discuss that here.

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kunzite1 June 23 2006, 05:01:23 UTC
thanks for understanding.

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burberrystreet June 23 2006, 18:24:54 UTC
Of course.

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foxfirefey June 23 2006, 03:51:58 UTC
Oh, and in case you didn't know this, LJ implemented CSS filtering. All internal and external stylesheets are supposed to be parsed and cleaned of any CSS that can affect the advertisements' display.

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