Comments | brightspot: Just for the record:

brightspot

Just for the record:

May 31, 2007 06:13

I'm not mad about what LJ did. What I have read of the situation (so far) does not, in the least, piss me off or make me consider taking a journal that I have had for five or six years now and moving it someplace else ( Read more... )

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go4baroque May 31 2007, 12:16:37 UTC

I'm not intimately familiar with the issues here, but I think your post is rational and reasonable. I think one thing LJ could have done differently was communicate their intentions before suspending, and perhaps notify/contact the potential offenders up front to head off any misunderstandings.

Often, it's not about the action itself but rather how it's communicated.

brightspot May 31 2007, 14:00:15 UTC

Absolutely, the manner of communication was not the best. Which is why today they put a huge apology on their front page, admitted to their error, explained how it happened and what they were trying to do, and how they were going to fix it. That is better communications than you will get from 90% of companies when they screw up. They either pretend it never happened, or make a statement with no real apology. LJ didn't do that, though they could have, and I think that's admirable. Ya know?

jenaflynn May 31 2007, 15:10:32 UTC

I'm glad that they apologized. I didn't get negatively impacted in any way, but a few friends did, and that seems to have pissed them off fairly highly. I used to have another LJ that was probably similar to yours.. deeply personal hell/stories/erotica/etc.. but it has long since started to rot here on lj. (Hooray, I forgot the password to it.)

brightspot May 31 2007, 19:08:19 UTC

LOL! See, I didn't build my erotic journal on LiveJournal, specifically because when I read the TOS, I could see that there was room to interpret it in a way that I would be violating it, and I didn't want to risk it being deleted if I had filled it with cool stuff. Which I didn't, I used it twice, felt icky because I had a secret place I didn't show my husband, told him about it but still wouldn't show him, then once I'd told him and found he didn't care, it lost all it's attraction.........but if I had filled it with cool stuff, I wouldn't have wanted it deleted. :oD So I purposely started it with a different, more loosely regimented online journal provider.

cerdewin June 1 2007, 15:10:55 UTC

I have a private journal as well filled with my most personal thoughts. Since I have marked it as private and do not friend anyone with the addition of all entries are private, I don't believe it violates terms of service. I mean who am I violating....ME?

If your private journal is like this then it doesn't violate any terms of service.

brightspot June 1 2007, 16:00:06 UTC

It isn't. :o) It was public, but it was anonymous. I didn't want to share it with everyone I knew, but I did want to share it.

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brightspot June 3 2007, 11:02:59 UTC

Obviously, it would have. But it was a mistake. It was not meant to be done this way and they are working to resolve it.

Regardless of any of that, all of this is perfectly within their right as a part of the terms of service that we all agreed to when we signed up for our journals. And even if those terms have changed since we signed up, that was also something we knew going in - part of the TOS is that they reserve the right to change at any time. They give a nifty link at which you can review the most current TOS at any time, but regardless of whether you do or not, the rules are still in effect and can be enforced at any time.