I will not repeat the news, as I am sure everybody already knows it. I want to say, however, that in Russian segment of LJ (which is second biggest after English) there is a strong opinion that the deal was planned to come through exactly after the parliamentary elections in Russia, so all the Russian blogosphere would discuss the fact of sale of
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I understand that the Russian blogosphere is largely LJ-based. But to the rest of the world, LiveJournal just isn't all that important. Frankly, the Russian elections just aren't all that important to most of the blogosphere. The few English-speaking people who would have blogged about the Russian elections, did so anyway. Most of the people in LJ-land who were upset about the sale had no idea that there had been elections in Russia until conspiracy theories mentioned them.
So, let's discuss SUP on its own merits. As you said, there are certainly other reasons to be concerned about the way SUP will run LJ.
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But the OP says that the reason why 6 Apart sold LJ to SUP was so "the blogosphere would discuss the fact of sale of LJ and not the unfair elections" in Russia last weekend!
That's pretty darn ridiculous, in my book.
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And speaking of elections...if SUP announced it before the election everyone would be screaming that long and bloody hand of Kreml is trying to shut the opposition down before the election. If they announced it after the election everyone would say that this is the first step of Kreml to completely destroy opposition.
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First, I want to describe a little fact the people around here who don't know Russian may not be aware of: trolls are more willing to explain their opinion than the most of the users. This is, regular users can just perceive all this situation in the way of "lolwut, SUP bought LJ? okay, this changes nothing" or similar, without expressing any feedback and furthermore going to no_lj_ads to make you aware of their feelings. This is natural, you know ( ... )
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By way of analogy: I am an American citizen, living in America. I have been unhappy with many of LJ's recent actions, prior to the purchase of LJ by SUP. I have complained about these actions on news along with many other English-speaking users who feel the same way as I do. We complain because we feel we have legitimate grievances about LJ's treatment of its users. We are not "trolls" for the most part.
Why should I take your word for it that the Russians who complain about SUP do not have legitimate complaint, just as the Americans/U.K./Canadians who have complained had legitimate complaints about LJ when it was with Six Apart?
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Not to be confrontational, but I just wanted to point out that that's pretty much the norm for any current news story or issue. The temporary protection usually goes away within a few days afterwards (and looks to be gone now, actually.)
The news of the sale/press release broke on some pretty big sites including Digg and Slashdot among others. Granted, it's not anything like Stephen Colbert and elephants but...
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Thank you.
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