Introduction, and another protest idea
Uh, greetings. I'm Cody, and I'm new here. My opposition to LJ Plus accounts isn't so much with having to see ads on the 'user interface' pages on LJ (I can deal with that if it's absolutely necessary), as much as it is having them plastered on my own content with no control over which ads show up. Suffice it to say, it's really frustrating when you're trying to make some big point against something and the supposedly 'context-sensitive' ads are all for the very thing you were denouncing...
Anyway...
This was already suggested in this post in ljspeaks, and I have no idea how much of an impact it would actually make, but Im surprised it hasn't been mentioned here.
What if we could find a way of convincing people who have a Plus account created before 12 March to switch their journals back to Basic?
I'm not sure how much of an impact this would make (how many Plus accounts are there, anyway?), but it would have a twofold effect:
1. Basic users, and non-LJ members, stumbling across their journals would not see the ads, thus serving as a monetary protest to LJ.
2. This could potentially skew the statistics in favor of Basic, showing LJ that hey, maybe there is a demand for basic accounts after all.
Any thoughts? Is this just a hairbrained cloud-cuckoo-land idea, or is there actually some substance to it?
Edited to add: Just added this to the queue for ljspeaks as well.
Anyway...
This was already suggested in this post in ljspeaks, and I have no idea how much of an impact it would actually make, but Im surprised it hasn't been mentioned here.
What if we could find a way of convincing people who have a Plus account created before 12 March to switch their journals back to Basic?
I'm not sure how much of an impact this would make (how many Plus accounts are there, anyway?), but it would have a twofold effect:
1. Basic users, and non-LJ members, stumbling across their journals would not see the ads, thus serving as a monetary protest to LJ.
2. This could potentially skew the statistics in favor of Basic, showing LJ that hey, maybe there is a demand for basic accounts after all.
Any thoughts? Is this just a hairbrained cloud-cuckoo-land idea, or is there actually some substance to it?
Edited to add: Just added this to the queue for ljspeaks as well.