Regarding the content strike...
Each user individually deciding not to use LJ on Friday is a good impact. We'll likely get a couple thousand people to participate. But think about communities. Some communities have hundreds of posts a day. So here's what I propose:
- If you run a community, switch it to moderated posting for a day and accept absolutely no posts that day. Make a post beforehand alerting your members, obviously. I'm doing this for the 2 communities I run.
- Send a message to the mods of other communities you're a member of urging them to take the same action.
This way we can really make a huge dent, not just a small one. A 4,000 person fanfiction community I'm a member of is doing this. They get dozens of posts a day. There are 2 pages of comments on their alert post, all positive comments.
Think about it. If we get 100 communities to not post at all that day, that will really multiply the impact. Plus, some of the members of the communities may decide to participate on their personal journals as well. This is doable.
EDIT: I should've been more clear. I'm not advocating some arbitrary decision to stop posts in all communities. It depends on the topic and the atmosphere of the community. It would be a little odd to restrict posting on a knitting community, for instance. But both of the communities I run are fandom communities, and have a lot of Basic members, and therefore are greatly impacted by LJ's homophobic censoring and their refusal to let people create Basic accounts.
- If you run a community, switch it to moderated posting for a day and accept absolutely no posts that day. Make a post beforehand alerting your members, obviously. I'm doing this for the 2 communities I run.
- Send a message to the mods of other communities you're a member of urging them to take the same action.
This way we can really make a huge dent, not just a small one. A 4,000 person fanfiction community I'm a member of is doing this. They get dozens of posts a day. There are 2 pages of comments on their alert post, all positive comments.
Think about it. If we get 100 communities to not post at all that day, that will really multiply the impact. Plus, some of the members of the communities may decide to participate on their personal journals as well. This is doable.
EDIT: I should've been more clear. I'm not advocating some arbitrary decision to stop posts in all communities. It depends on the topic and the atmosphere of the community. It would be a little odd to restrict posting on a knitting community, for instance. But both of the communities I run are fandom communities, and have a lot of Basic members, and therefore are greatly impacted by LJ's homophobic censoring and their refusal to let people create Basic accounts.