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Participate in the Blogger Challenge & Help Students and Schools

Sep 28, 2007 13:54

One of the best kept secrets about the LiveJournal community is how incredibly generous you all are. It's not just the fact that so many of you volunteer to help LJ out, or are such active participants in communities online. It's what you do to support communities offline that makes us so proud of what LJ is. (A recent example was the way you all ( Read more... )

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laren September 28 2007, 22:33:25 UTC

I so knew there would be wank before we even got to the second page.

Re: Bait & switch is against the law. laren September 30 2007, 22:52:28 UTC

Your response has logic! I thank you for telling me something that makes sense in a mature and rational way. <3

Re: Bait & switch is against the law. elfwreck September 30 2007, 23:12:24 UTC

Thank you for listening ( ... )

Re: Bait & switch is against the law. laren September 30 2007, 23:29:51 UTC

I definitely hear what you're saying and I agree that it's worth being concerned about. As someone who has never posted that kind of content, none of this affects me personally and therefore it is easy for me to not care all that much about what's going on. That's not to say that I don't care at all, because I do agree that LJ/6A have been making some bad moves. However, it has not affected me in such a way that I feel like I should leave ( ... )

Re: Bait & switch is against the law. averysmallthing October 3 2007, 01:28:12 UTC

If all the people who were commenting on this were calm, rational, and had some basis for their claims

A lot of people started out calm and rational, and as we continued to receive no response, and as lj staff and abuse members said one thing and then did another thing entirely, people slowly lost their cool. People have lost their tempers, and it's really hard to give the benefit of he doubt at this point.

It's really easy to assume the worst, however.

I've been here for years, I'm a part of this community, and just like you and everyone else with an LJ account, I am allowed to speak up and speak out on what I think 6A needs to do to make the community better. Even if you don't like what I have to say.

Re: Bait & switch is against the law. laren October 3 2007, 02:59:37 UTC

I've never said that anyone couldn't speak out. In case you haven't been reading my previous comments, I'm all for free speech. However, I am also allowed to call people idiots for losing their cool on a LiveJournal comments page. :)

Re: Bait & switch is against the law. averysmallthing October 3 2007, 03:48:13 UTC

It would be silly if you had. You don't have any control over who comments about what. But you did say that instead of sticking it out and waiting for the response we were promised and attempting to improve the LJ community, we should ditch and move to another service.

Because that's what community is all about.

Re: Bait & switch is against the law. laren October 4 2007, 05:32:08 UTC

If people want to stick around on a basic account and not support any user or community with a plus account (which has ads which increase LJ/6A revenue), that's their choice. But a lot of the people who piss and moan are using a plus account, which really isn't putting their money where their mouth is at all.

I also think it's kind of a hopeless situation, but then that's just me.

saralogan September 29 2007, 18:08:26 UTC

I so knew there would be wank about the wank before we even got to the second page.

laren September 29 2007, 18:09:26 UTC

I so called wank about the wank about the wank.

saralogan September 29 2007, 18:14:40 UTC

How witty.

laren September 29 2007, 18:15:42 UTC

Just like you! :D

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