In Which Strikethrough '07 Resurfaces and Our Heart Hurts as a Result, But We're Getting Used to It
I've seen a couple posts about the residual issues from Strikethrough but haven't thought they were worth citing here. Now GJ's Fandomtossed and innocence_jihad (a community created against Warriors for Innocence during Strikethrough) are both reporting that a few users have reportedly been suspended for artwork they submitted to pornish_pixies, the Harry Potter fanfic/fanart community.
Instead of strikethrough, deleted journals (ponderosa121 and elaboration are the ones named in the 2 communities) show up bold.
Just thought everyone should know.
For future reference, I can be found on GreatestJournal as wafflexofdoom.
[Edit] I've been posting over at the latest news post, along with a number of other angry members of fandom. I recommend you all do the same, as it is past my bedtime and I have to go to an early lunch AND tea tomorrow. I hope fandom can unite again and that LJ will stop being crackweasels, but I'm losing faith. [\Edit]
Links:
- innocence_jihad post
- GJ's fandomtossed post
- I'm not sure how applicable this is to the situation here, but this article is circulating on some of the communities and discussions, about Contract changes and online companies.
Ironically, I'd just moved my original entries about Strikethrough to my GJ wafflexofdoom journal.
Seriously, LJ--WTF?!?
First Comment on News Post:I second imaginarycircus!
I love LJ so much, but your recent actions against fandom, and innocent artists and writers is greatly distressing. I do not want to leave LJ. I was so happy to get a paid account for Christmas, and now I feel sick to think that this is where that money is going.
FANFICTION AND FAN ART IS NOT WRONG!. It doesn't advocate committing crimes. It isn't hurting anyone, and it's ALWAYS got warnings when it's explicit or if there are things people might not want to see. It even has disclaimers by the creators saying that the character/whatever are not of their own creation.
What is the problem? This is really upsetting. Are you going to make me delete my naked dance icon, too?
Second Comment (not including response to other users): Question. After your massive screw-up at the end of May, affectionately known as Strikethrough, when you united all the fandoms into one angry horde of users as a result of your mass-deletions/suspensions, did you decide to be sneaky and go after the fandoms one at a time, hoping they wouldn't notice and you wouldn't get such a strong reaction? Or am I just venturing into the area of conspiracy theory?
Third Comment: I have been reading your lj_biz post about your so-called "clarifications". I stopped reading it a while ago because the comments were too insane, but I feel I need to wade through them.
- You provided no clear checklist of what was ok and what was not.
- There was no explanation of how the process worked, or how entries would be evaluated.
- You didn't give the user an opportunnity to delete the offending entry, nor did you talk to the user about the context of the entry. There was no discussion between LJ and the user.
I think in your frenzy to avoid legal action regarding allegedly "obscene" material, you're bringing yourself closer and closer to a massive lawsuit from angry fandom users whose accounts were deleted or suspended without giving them an opportunity to correct something that they didn't even know was problematic.
Your lack of clarification in the post that was supposed to answer the users' questions was disturbing. My mother is a lawyer in San Francisco who specializes in sexual harassment law. I understand how complicated this stuff can be, but I am seriously disturbed by the lack of specifics in that post.
Instead of strikethrough, deleted journals (ponderosa121 and elaboration are the ones named in the 2 communities) show up bold.
Just thought everyone should know.
For future reference, I can be found on GreatestJournal as wafflexofdoom.
[Edit] I've been posting over at the latest news post, along with a number of other angry members of fandom. I recommend you all do the same, as it is past my bedtime and I have to go to an early lunch AND tea tomorrow. I hope fandom can unite again and that LJ will stop being crackweasels, but I'm losing faith. [\Edit]
Links:
- innocence_jihad post
- GJ's fandomtossed post
- I'm not sure how applicable this is to the situation here, but this article is circulating on some of the communities and discussions, about Contract changes and online companies.
Ironically, I'd just moved my original entries about Strikethrough to my GJ wafflexofdoom journal.
Seriously, LJ--WTF?!?
First Comment on News Post:I second imaginarycircus!
I love LJ so much, but your recent actions against fandom, and innocent artists and writers is greatly distressing. I do not want to leave LJ. I was so happy to get a paid account for Christmas, and now I feel sick to think that this is where that money is going.
FANFICTION AND FAN ART IS NOT WRONG!. It doesn't advocate committing crimes. It isn't hurting anyone, and it's ALWAYS got warnings when it's explicit or if there are things people might not want to see. It even has disclaimers by the creators saying that the character/whatever are not of their own creation.
What is the problem? This is really upsetting. Are you going to make me delete my naked dance icon, too?
Second Comment (not including response to other users): Question. After your massive screw-up at the end of May, affectionately known as Strikethrough, when you united all the fandoms into one angry horde of users as a result of your mass-deletions/suspensions, did you decide to be sneaky and go after the fandoms one at a time, hoping they wouldn't notice and you wouldn't get such a strong reaction? Or am I just venturing into the area of conspiracy theory?
Third Comment: I have been reading your lj_biz post about your so-called "clarifications". I stopped reading it a while ago because the comments were too insane, but I feel I need to wade through them.
- You provided no clear checklist of what was ok and what was not.
- There was no explanation of how the process worked, or how entries would be evaluated.
- You didn't give the user an opportunnity to delete the offending entry, nor did you talk to the user about the context of the entry. There was no discussion between LJ and the user.
I think in your frenzy to avoid legal action regarding allegedly "obscene" material, you're bringing yourself closer and closer to a massive lawsuit from angry fandom users whose accounts were deleted or suspended without giving them an opportunity to correct something that they didn't even know was problematic.
Your lack of clarification in the post that was supposed to answer the users' questions was disturbing. My mother is a lawyer in San Francisco who specializes in sexual harassment law. I understand how complicated this stuff can be, but I am seriously disturbed by the lack of specifics in that post.