Comments | mapsandlegends: LiveJournal is watching you (still).

mapsandlegends

LiveJournal is watching you (still).

Sep 18, 2007 21:19

From both sol_se and the_lj_herald comes the news that LiveJournal doesn't have time to rewrite their TOS so that anyone can understand it or answer valid user questions because they're too busy forcing people to opt out of their data mining scheme. I don't know what LiveJournal intends to do with the data they gather (and have been gathering), but I don't really ( Read more... )

livejournal, livejournal stupidity, asshattery

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kate_mct September 19 2007, 04:35:13 UTC

It won't let me do it. It keeps either I need 2 or 4 arguments or that the command doesn't exist. *Rolls eyes* I don't want LJ mining my journal.

mapsandlegends September 19 2007, 04:45:55 UTC

Other people were reporting that they got the "command doesn't exist" error. Just keep trying, maybe it's that too many people are trying to opt out at once? I would find that highly amusing.

Also, in good news, I haven't forgotten that I promised you that story for your birthday. :)

kate_mct September 19 2007, 04:49:21 UTC

*Squeals* Cool! I was about to email you to see if you wanted any ideas or anything. And I'll try the commands later, see if I can't get a better result.

Happy Birthday. mapsandlegends September 21 2007, 02:29:15 UTC

All done. You can read it now. :)

blackshadow_cat September 19 2007, 19:00:58 UTC

I don't really understand what«s happening, because I'm not too frequent a user to ubderstand the words TOS... But apperently it's something not so good. Help?

mapsandlegends September 20 2007, 05:15:58 UTC

TOS=Terms of Service.

The company that runs LiveJournal are just being complete asshats right now. They keep making promises and not keeping them and they keep contradicting themselves left and right. Their latest trick is to disable comments on important posts and to screen or freeze comments where people are saying fairly mild things but that LJ doesn't agree with.

blackshadow_cat September 20 2007, 19:30:34 UTC

Oh... so, ok, I do not agree with that... but are they freezing comments only on topics related to LJ or freezing them in general, like, let's say I'm against some kind of a politician o something.

blackshadow_cat September 20 2007, 21:44:45 UTC

Only on some posts in LJ-specific communities, thankfully. If they started doing that all over the site I'd leave in a heartbeat.

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