Christ on a Cracker - LJ/6A strikes again
EDIT: I'm updating this post everytime I find new links. And will flag new stuff: NEW
NEW LJ finally makes an official statement that says almost nothing new.
aura218 compiled links of all the comments made by LJ/SA employees in the comments
What happened:
HP fandom artists are being suspended. No confirmation as to why - but we are guessing it is the new LJ abuse policies?
note: When the LJ abuse post went up a few weeks ago I posted an NC-17 fic (Adult/16 yo, non-con) to my other journal ari_o and several people reported it to LJ Abuse. LJ Abuse said my story was totally fine and not going to get me TOSsed. Looks like things might be different now.
The Strikethough is gone. When you type a users name like the two suspended LJers we know about ponderosa121 and elaboration you get bolded names with no strikethrough. this pissed me off.
ponderosa121 was TOSsed for artwork submitted to pornish_pixies.
more possible deletions
There is also http://www.greatestjournal.com/community/fandomtossed/ - for keeping track.
PLEASE POST IF YOU KNOW OTHER USERS BESIDES THESE WHO WERE TOSSED TODAY 8/2/07:
elaboration
ponderosa121
NEW as of 8/6/07 More TOSsed LJs
zenfu - Suspended for shota related art
barakbsux - "Deleted and purged" (?)
desireneverends - SUSPENDED (self procalimed pedophile)
entrisic - 'Deleted and purged' (yaoi comm member)
hitlersangels - SUSPENDED White suprematist teen folk singers O_O
internalerosion - 'Deleted and purged' moved to new journal?
mikey_mousse - 'Deleted and purged' (?)
spacelogic - Self-deleted in protest over strikethrough
surancorporate - SUSPENDED (seems to have child love group ties)
I CAN PUT THE STRIKE BACK IN WITH HTML YOU SAD FUCKERS AT LJ! BECAUSE BOLD'07 DOESN'T REALLY WORK AS A BATTLE CRY.
(Hey someone at F_W iconned the quotation above! :D
Ponderosa posts the TOS note she received.
Elaboration speaks up at GJ.
pornish_pixies is under attack again from lj.
What you can do:
Friend fandom_counts if you haven't.
Post at the most recent posts at news and lj_biz and complain!
OR Send Six Apart a comment directly!
***THE NEWS POST reached max comments. buggery suggested leaving comments to Barak's lj_biz post here! Brilliant!****
Stop giving LJ money. and bad_wolf_bitch suggests contacting the Better Business Bureau.
NEW
Read and sign bubble_blunder's excellent open letter to LJ.
Reactions & Resources:
NEW
Hey more insults from people affiliated with LJ anildash tells us all to go fuck ourselves! NICE!
NEW
LS says the will make a post at lj_biz later today. via radiovolume
Stupendous asshattery from LJ's own burr86! Watch as he mocks us all.
ETA: Bahleeted. screencap here
ETA2: eleri explains why she deleted link above and c&p's complaint sent to LJ about burr86.
ETA3: entire original efw thread saved here! FTW!
ETA4: Firefox News article calling burr86 an asshat! (digg it)
NEW
Valleywag speculates that Brad is about to jump the Six Apart ship for google. (digg it) Brad sets the record straight.
NEW
Cnet article on kerfuffle.
MUST READ comment on LJ/SA's shady self serving charitiable donations from recent perm account sale. oulangi is made of win.
News is also coming up over at Greatest Journal where there is a FandomTOSsed community.
I found out about an article in the 8/9 issue of Rolling Stone from daughterofodhin at lj_biz. Perverted Justice goes after LiveJournal (on last page of article.)
Metafandom links!
more helpful links via elke_tanzer
synecdochic's post about legal issues
And hey! We made F_W.
liz_marcs has a useful post here with info on how to back up your journal and other stuff.
How to use OpenID to post on other journalling sites or at LJ by cmshaw
Add yourself to the The Directorium it is like the fandom white pages.
fandom_flies is interested in starting up a new LJ open source blog system.
twocorpses has already started a new website using LJs opensource code and is about to start beta testing! YAY!
Ponderosa is discussing planning a new LJ type site for fen of all ages.
shaggirl has poll here trying to guage interest and willingness to financially support a new fen run blogging site.
BANNED IMAGE MACRO'D AND POSTED AT LJ NEWS!! MADE OF AWESOME! but NWS
LJ banned lexexperiment from news for posting the macro linked above. The did not TOS her journal yet though.
stormcloude's LJ Abuse response which I think is an answer to why they TOSsed ponderosa121 - SRSLY?! Because Eric at LJ Abuse didn't like it. liz_marcs sums the net effect of this up nicely
List of LJs contradictions from jupiter_star
Y HALO THR New Report Abuse Button Ooooo look! It gives you the option of reporting child porn! How thoughtful for the crazies!
emcyclopedia has set up 6a_conference for people interested in setting up a talk with Six Apart.
If you are leaving LJ you can leave your new blog info at beyond_lj or deleting_my_lj if you are deleting it
copperbadge suggests that writers and artists with separate LJs for their creations use different email addresses for each account to protect yourself. more here - We are 100% this will keep both your journals from TOSsing, but it sure as hell can't hurt!
_____________________________________________________________________________________
reference note: ~160 saved links from the last round of this crap. Journal backup sites and other info in those links
NEW LJ finally makes an official statement that says almost nothing new.
aura218 compiled links of all the comments made by LJ/SA employees in the comments
What happened:
HP fandom artists are being suspended. No confirmation as to why - but we are guessing it is the new LJ abuse policies?
note: When the LJ abuse post went up a few weeks ago I posted an NC-17 fic (Adult/16 yo, non-con) to my other journal ari_o and several people reported it to LJ Abuse. LJ Abuse said my story was totally fine and not going to get me TOSsed. Looks like things might be different now.
The Strikethough is gone. When you type a users name like the two suspended LJers we know about ponderosa121 and elaboration you get bolded names with no strikethrough. this pissed me off.
ponderosa121 was TOSsed for artwork submitted to pornish_pixies.
more possible deletions
There is also http://www.greatestjournal.com/community/fandomtossed/ - for keeping track.
PLEASE POST IF YOU KNOW OTHER USERS BESIDES THESE WHO WERE TOSSED TODAY 8/2/07:
elaboration
ponderosa121
NEW as of 8/6/07 More TOSsed LJs
zenfu - Suspended for shota related art
barakbsux - "Deleted and purged" (?)
desireneverends - SUSPENDED (self procalimed pedophile)
entrisic - 'Deleted and purged' (yaoi comm member)
hitlersangels - SUSPENDED White suprematist teen folk singers O_O
internalerosion - 'Deleted and purged' moved to new journal?
mikey_mousse - 'Deleted and purged' (?)
spacelogic - Self-deleted in protest over strikethrough
surancorporate - SUSPENDED (seems to have child love group ties)
I CAN PUT THE STRIKE BACK IN WITH HTML YOU SAD FUCKERS AT LJ! BECAUSE BOLD'07 DOESN'T REALLY WORK AS A BATTLE CRY.
(Hey someone at F_W iconned the quotation above! :D
Ponderosa posts the TOS note she received.
Elaboration speaks up at GJ.
pornish_pixies is under attack again from lj.
What you can do:
Friend fandom_counts if you haven't.
Post at the most recent posts at news and lj_biz and complain!
OR Send Six Apart a comment directly!
***THE NEWS POST reached max comments. buggery suggested leaving comments to Barak's lj_biz post here! Brilliant!****
Stop giving LJ money. and bad_wolf_bitch suggests contacting the Better Business Bureau.
NEW
Read and sign bubble_blunder's excellent open letter to LJ.
Reactions & Resources:
NEW
Hey more insults from people affiliated with LJ anildash tells us all to go fuck ourselves! NICE!
NEW
LS says the will make a post at lj_biz later today. via radiovolume
Stupendous asshattery from LJ's own burr86! Watch as he mocks us all.
ETA: Bahleeted. screencap here
ETA2: eleri explains why she deleted link above and c&p's complaint sent to LJ about burr86.
ETA3: entire original efw thread saved here! FTW!
ETA4: Firefox News article calling burr86 an asshat! (digg it)
NEW
Valleywag speculates that Brad is about to jump the Six Apart ship for google. (digg it) Brad sets the record straight.
NEW
Cnet article on kerfuffle.
MUST READ comment on LJ/SA's shady self serving charitiable donations from recent perm account sale. oulangi is made of win.
News is also coming up over at Greatest Journal where there is a FandomTOSsed community.
I found out about an article in the 8/9 issue of Rolling Stone from daughterofodhin at lj_biz. Perverted Justice goes after LiveJournal (on last page of article.)
Metafandom links!
more helpful links via elke_tanzer
synecdochic's post about legal issues
And hey! We made F_W.
liz_marcs has a useful post here with info on how to back up your journal and other stuff.
How to use OpenID to post on other journalling sites or at LJ by cmshaw
Add yourself to the The Directorium it is like the fandom white pages.
fandom_flies is interested in starting up a new LJ open source blog system.
twocorpses has already started a new website using LJs opensource code and is about to start beta testing! YAY!
Ponderosa is discussing planning a new LJ type site for fen of all ages.
shaggirl has poll here trying to guage interest and willingness to financially support a new fen run blogging site.
BANNED IMAGE MACRO'D AND POSTED AT LJ NEWS!! MADE OF AWESOME! but NWS
LJ banned lexexperiment from news for posting the macro linked above. The did not TOS her journal yet though.
stormcloude's LJ Abuse response which I think is an answer to why they TOSsed ponderosa121 - SRSLY?! Because Eric at LJ Abuse didn't like it. liz_marcs sums the net effect of this up nicely
List of LJs contradictions from jupiter_star
Y HALO THR New Report Abuse Button Ooooo look! It gives you the option of reporting child porn! How thoughtful for the crazies!
emcyclopedia has set up 6a_conference for people interested in setting up a talk with Six Apart.
If you are leaving LJ you can leave your new blog info at beyond_lj or deleting_my_lj if you are deleting it
copperbadge suggests that writers and artists with separate LJs for their creations use different email addresses for each account to protect yourself. more here - We are 100% this will keep both your journals from TOSsing, but it sure as hell can't hurt!
_____________________________________________________________________________________
reference note: ~160 saved links from the last round of this crap. Journal backup sites and other info in those links