29-05-2007, the fallout

[waset]

The strikethrough did not affect me directly, but there is no escaping the fallout.

I love LiveJournal; I love features, interface, communities, connections. I love what it stands (stood?) for. I got my first account through an invite code; yes, it’s been that long. It would be a pain for me to leave. But it would pain me more to stand by and watch

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makers

[froganon]

"pg-friendly, white, straight, god-fearing Disneynet" Arrrgh.

Barak is "making" Live Journal into acceptable and palatable fodder for the hoped for stock investors. That is the only sense of the word that is accurate as far as Barak "making" lj anything.

Conformity, uniformity, deformity.
Death to the creative spirit.

I think I will go huddle in my bed now.
spike

Re: makers

[waset]

Fret not, creative spirit will outlive everything.

...Including LiveJournal...

[shadowvalkyrie]

I feel seriously sick right now. I only joined LJ less than a year ago, but all the reasons I started to love it -liberal attitude, creative liberty, the possibility to exchange opinions with like-minded people from all over the world- seem to be standing on the edge at the moment.

[skull_bearer]

I'm just hoping that now they've see they can't push us around so easily, they'll think twice about interfering again.

[anonymous]

I've had a paid account for more than 4 years. I am white and straight; PG is my favorite rating, and I love Disneyland. I'm so in favor of "protecting the children" that I keep the internet computer in the living room, where my husband and I can see what sites the kids are visiting.

I'm still totally cheesed off about everything they've done with this. There is no frickin' way I'm renewing my subscription when it expires in August. These people just have no doggone idea of who they're dealing with. Even if I am the demographic they want (and I really doubt that -- it seems like I am nobody's target market ever), they're going about it like a bunch of complete morons.

Have you seen stewardess's explanation for why it was only 400-500 accounts?

[waset]

Well, don't you think it's good that despite the surface differences in tastes and lifestyle, we still agree on the important things?

I have been following stewardess's updates. It does look like they took action on the first random accounts that showed up in the search. Not that it surprises me, to be honest.

The more I look into it, the more it seems to me that the strikethrough was not so much an act of deliberate malice, as a display of total incompetence. Not sure what's worse though...

P.S. It's a shame that I don't know who you are.

P.P.S. And I do love Disneyland.