cybernautical mode: [LJ] About to hit send.

[paradisacorbasi]

Good day,

I realize that there are over thirteen million journals on the site now. This is a fact that has been proudly displayed onwww.livejournal.com for some days now.

I realize that is a lot of journal content to plumb for offensive and/or illegal content.

I understand that you wish to minimize liability on the part of LiveJournal for

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I thought your letter was very well written. I'm sorry I didn't say that earlier.

I think the most important point is that the administration needs to not be shoot-first-ask-questions-later. And that was duly recognized, I feel, in barakb25's post. What wasn't quite recognized (and a point which you also made, as have others) is that public relations firestorms only get worse when nothing is said. The fact that barakb25 finally made a post is good, and a post from him should have been expected. However, I know a lot of people in the administration had to be spending time yesterday watching the shit hit the fan and saying, "Oh, look, shit is hitting the fan. We need to do something about that." And yes, you don't want to be writing apologies every hour. But the simple act of saying, "Hey, look, we're aware that there's a firestorm and we'll get back to you by X time about it," would have done a lot to calm people yesterday. LiveJournal has 13 million accounts, more than the population of the State of Illinois. But I guarantee that if the state did something like this, Governor Blagojevich would have had staff standing in front of his office in Springfield saying that the Governor was looking into the matter. And yes, we'd have heard from him eventually, but we would have had the PR machine going first.

I do hope you get a response.

And one last thing ... I thought your middle name was R., not your first name. Not that I have any problem with that; I know there are plenty of people who use a name construction like that (my mother's cousin Jay comes to mind; he is A. Jay Hibbs). But I also know I have you listed in my Trillian contacts with the name "Indigo R. C.", with the "R." and "C." actually spelled out, and not the same "C." that you list here, though I know about that business.

[paradisacorbasi]

When the legal thing is sorted out the R will be in the middle.