Compensate Permanent users for LJ downtime

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Title
Compensate Permanent users for LJ downtime

Short, concise description of the idea
Permanent users should receive extra account time whenever Paid users are compensated for downtime.

Full description of the ideaRecently, LiveJournal suffered a DDoS attack. Much of the site was unavailable thanks to some douchebags harassing a Russian user who

Comments

[midnightmadness]

Sock Puppet TROOOOOLLLLLL Account - wheeeee!

[azurelunatic]

I appreciate your concern about this suggestion, but after reading it through, I determined that the heart of the suggestion, to provide an acknowledgment that permanent users were also affected by the downtime, in a humorous way, did in fact have merit.

[midnightmadness]

First, let me make the disclaimer that I am NOT one of the perm users that complained about this, and was actually embarrassed to be a perm user and seeing people that did so, and also scratching my head in wondering what they had hoped to gain.

That said, show me ANYWHERE in the OP there is a genuine valid suggestion or actual valid contribution to LiveJournal or this community, and I'll by it.

[azurelunatic]

Every time LiveJournal sees fit to offer an extension of paid time, for any reason, without exception there will be complaints from Permanent users that they were also affected. Indeed, every time there is some new feature or extension to features for paid users, there will be a range of comments from permanent users if there is no mention of what permanent users get, starting at "So are our limits the same as paid?" to "No fair, I want more than the paid users

[right]

Best suggestion ever

[charliemc]

Believe me, I'm not anti-humor.

And I'm NOT a Permanent account holder who whines every single time LJ is down, either. (And I know many others who don't whine, for the record.)

But really... (sigh) This for those who do whine? Well, I guess squeaky wheels get grease.

[hakeber]

*snickers*

I love this. Nicely stated.

[worldserpent]

Seriously, what? I had thought this suggestion was that Permanent members would receive paid time that could be given to other, non-permanent members, but this serves no practical benefit. Isn't there a possibility that this would cause the disgruntled Permanent members to complain that they're given a useless "benefit"?