The Times They Are a'Changin...

[yndy]

Well that's just uber-sucky.

As if things hadn't been weird enough since 6A took over (has it really been more than 2 years?) news now comes round the bend that Brad Fitzpatrick is leaving for greener pastures.  Or at least, more challenging (seriously?) ones. Brad confirms his leaving, but tries to be diplomaticNot so surprisingly, 6A has nothing

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[yndy]

back in may, in a fell swoop of utter stupidity, one of the LJ higher-ups opted to delete en masse a number of LJs because of 'questionable' words listed in their interests section of the user profile - both communities and individuals... unfortunately, it was done without notice and without common sense... so things like a recovery group for victims of childhood incest got deleted because they listed 'child sexual abuse' in the interest section, even tho it was there b/c they were a support group...
it hit the fannish communities hardest, b/c of all of the slash fic - and caused a huge uproar and many people leaving LJ
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/31/livejournal6a_re_mas.html

LJ didn't exactly handle it well - and the cutesy nickname "strikethrough" was given to it by the protestors b/c of the fact that deleted or suspended journals show up on the Friend sections as ljuserx (if that worked) under normal circumstances.

Apparently, in the latest foofahrah, *1* person got suspended for a graphic sexual depiction of Snape/Harry Potter posted in public in the community that was the center of the last protests... but instead of the strikethru, now it shows simply as a bolded, unclickable link.

too much information? lol