time to move?
So, I noticed - vaguely - when the basic account was taken out of the stable and shot recently. Which I was sad and slightly indignant about, but since most of the people I run into have never even heard of LJ, Multiply and Blogger having a bigger presence here in Singapore, I didn't really care. I was Not Happy that I found out about it through the LJ grapevine, especially since I tend to not get grapevine news, but - rather selfishly, I guess - I didn't really care, since they weren't going to touch my own account. I was thinking of setting up a new account for something I was planning, but I guess that isn't going to happen now. Or will happen elsewhere. *shrugs* No big deal. I was talked into LJ in the first place, way back when, anyway. I like it, but it's not indispensable. Though moving all my entries will be...unthinkable. But frankly, I do understand where they're coming from.
Then my sister posted something about an LJ Content Strike. (Midnight to midnight GMT 21st March - Friday 8am to Saturday 8 am Singapore). And as I did in my post earlier tonight, I clicked on the links and started following. I have finally come up at an interview with Anton Nosik, the director of the blog division of SUP corporations (who own LJ):
The audience of LJ is divided into 3 groups. There is the silent majority, which uses LJ for their own needs and is indifferent to who, when and with what money made such a resource and supports it. There are the positive minority (7-10 percent in the Russian LJ), these people like LJ, they consider it useful and want it to develop further. They help us, including constructive criticism, thanks to which we correct our mistakes. And there is the third category. They endlessly, during the entire existence of LJ promote lour initiatives, whose only purpouse is to bring harm to LJ, its founders, their goal is to criticize, destablilize and ruin our reputation. They are usually motivated by wanting to attract attention to themselves. And they are successful every time.
From this post. It's worth a read for the social psychology factor.
For the few of you who don't read my sister's LJ, the link on the strike up above explains what you do - or don't do - pretty well. Don't post anything, comments or posts. Don't read or login if you can handle it. This other link has the terms they're sending, which I'm not really in full agreement with, and if you, like me, like to read the legalese before joining in strikes, you might want to wade through that.
Apparently some interests were deleted - by accident? who knows - a few days ago, which has fandom, a large part of LJ, up in arms. That's the source of term #4. As I understand it - and as the table in this post has it - the 4 words listed in the article are the mildest of the lot. They include sex, girls, guys, bondage, yaoi, faeries, and fanfiction. *wide grin* Good to know I'm going straight to special hell, as described by LJ. (They left slash though...) I think it was semi-accidental. Especially since they took yaoi and left slash (and am I ever amused to find both in the top ranks, but not lesbian action or yuri), and they put them back without a fuss.
What actually intrigued me was, in all that link following, I came upon some wank over a Ponderosa Snarry pic from last year, when apparently they deleted some journals for questionable content without warning or clear statement of the rules. Just poked me in yet another fannish area, since my not-so-secret vice - among others - is Snarry, and I'm more than familiar with Pond's artwork from both GW and HP fandoms. She has her own website anyway, even if it seems to be missing a lot of her old stuff currently. A comment in bad taste was then made by an LJ employee implying it was pedophilic, and things apparently spiraled even further.
I just...look at the people who've taken over, and I think - you really know nothing about the history of LJ, do you. Most of these users are the same people who left ff.net when they banned NC-17 work, only ff.net had the decency to be open about it, and they avoided this debacle. And lost a lot of good writers, but they're still the biggest writing network on the Net. The furor was short and clean, in my fandom at the time at least.
I should sleep. It's 2:43 am, this is ridiculous.
Then my sister posted something about an LJ Content Strike. (Midnight to midnight GMT 21st March - Friday 8am to Saturday 8 am Singapore). And as I did in my post earlier tonight, I clicked on the links and started following. I have finally come up at an interview with Anton Nosik, the director of the blog division of SUP corporations (who own LJ):
The audience of LJ is divided into 3 groups. There is the silent majority, which uses LJ for their own needs and is indifferent to who, when and with what money made such a resource and supports it. There are the positive minority (7-10 percent in the Russian LJ), these people like LJ, they consider it useful and want it to develop further. They help us, including constructive criticism, thanks to which we correct our mistakes. And there is the third category. They endlessly, during the entire existence of LJ promote lour initiatives, whose only purpouse is to bring harm to LJ, its founders, their goal is to criticize, destablilize and ruin our reputation. They are usually motivated by wanting to attract attention to themselves. And they are successful every time.
From this post. It's worth a read for the social psychology factor.
For the few of you who don't read my sister's LJ, the link on the strike up above explains what you do - or don't do - pretty well. Don't post anything, comments or posts. Don't read or login if you can handle it. This other link has the terms they're sending, which I'm not really in full agreement with, and if you, like me, like to read the legalese before joining in strikes, you might want to wade through that.
Apparently some interests were deleted - by accident? who knows - a few days ago, which has fandom, a large part of LJ, up in arms. That's the source of term #4. As I understand it - and as the table in this post has it - the 4 words listed in the article are the mildest of the lot. They include sex, girls, guys, bondage, yaoi, faeries, and fanfiction. *wide grin* Good to know I'm going straight to special hell, as described by LJ. (They left slash though...) I think it was semi-accidental. Especially since they took yaoi and left slash (and am I ever amused to find both in the top ranks, but not lesbian action or yuri), and they put them back without a fuss.
What actually intrigued me was, in all that link following, I came upon some wank over a Ponderosa Snarry pic from last year, when apparently they deleted some journals for questionable content without warning or clear statement of the rules. Just poked me in yet another fannish area, since my not-so-secret vice - among others - is Snarry, and I'm more than familiar with Pond's artwork from both GW and HP fandoms. She has her own website anyway, even if it seems to be missing a lot of her old stuff currently. A comment in bad taste was then made by an LJ employee implying it was pedophilic, and things apparently spiraled even further.
I just...look at the people who've taken over, and I think - you really know nothing about the history of LJ, do you. Most of these users are the same people who left ff.net when they banned NC-17 work, only ff.net had the decency to be open about it, and they avoided this debacle. And lost a lot of good writers, but they're still the biggest writing network on the Net. The furor was short and clean, in my fandom at the time at least.
I should sleep. It's 2:43 am, this is ridiculous.