a shocking suggestion

[rahaeli]

Title
a shocking suggestion

Short, concise description of the idea
Electrocute suggestions posters and commenters who do not first read the community rules and memories

Full description of the ideaWe've all rolled our eyes as Yet Another suggestion that's only a rehash of something first proposed -- and rejected -- in 1998 comes through. Imagine how bad it is

Comments

[timwi]

Not wanting to start a flamewar (which would be kind of ironic in this entry), but this entry betrays a fundamental ignorance among the LiveJournal management which has persisted at least since I joined. How long will it take for you to realise that

If something is suggested over and over again, it means that the suggested feature is needed.Since LiveJournal are clearly unable to provide the features that everybody needs, I have no other conclusion left than to say that the management is extremely poor

[timwi]

Heh, OK, I fell for that one. Ouch.

[timwi]

some things like background music are suggested lots and we definately don't need that!

We don't? Why don't we, when a sizeable proportion of users obviously want it? Why should they be prohibited from having it, especially when it's extremely easy to add this functionality, and it's easy for you to disable it on your end? Why do you have to force such decisions on others?

[imc]

We don't? Why don't we, when a sizeable proportion of users obviously want it?

Because for every user that wants it there are five who say "hell, no!"; and for all the reasons mentioned in that recent suggestions post.

it's extremely easy to add this functionality

I think you are underestimating the issues involved. Note, incidentally, that LiveJournal does already support background music loaded from an external link on your own journal page if you are a paid user (and there are unsupported hackish ways for free users to do it too). Any more than that and you run into problems with (a) storage space, bandwidth and the RIAA if LiveJournal offers hosting (which would certainly be a paid-account-only feature) and (b) multiple soundclips competing if LiveJournal allows each journal entry to come with different background music.

it's easy for you to disable it on your end

It shouldn't be necessary, and anyway, I don't think it is easy (at least I can't immediately see an option in Mozilla to disable just background music without affecting

[leora]

Or suggestions like allowing users to block a particular anonymous user from reading their entries while still allowing their friends who don't have accounts and perfectly nice strangers to be able to read them. That one pops up a lot, so it must be desireable.

But as to the actual suggestion, I think it's forgetting another possible drawback - some people may enjoy being shocked, and they might increase their bad suggestions purely to get shocked.

[subbes]

Oh, shit. I guess this means LJ really needs background music.

You win

[kingfox]

[timwi]

You mean you're still using a crappy browser that doesn't let you disable it?

[subbes]

Whatevs.

[chris_brigham]

This is off-topic, but thank you for making me (and probably many other random strangers) fall out of my chair laughing by using this icon.

[everdred]

> Everybody wants to be able to edit comments.

I don't. Please don't claim to speak for me.