18 March 2008 @ 11:42 am
Shits retarded..  
Just to tell EVERYONE who cares. I will be happily posting and commenting on MARCH 21! For those of you who DON'T know thst is what will be happening: Here


"For those of you who don't already know, there has been a strike scheduled for Friday, March 21st, 2008, during which we hope to have many members of LiveJournal provide LJ with absolutely no content for twenty-four hours. This means no posting and no commenting. If you post elsewhere and have it set up to be posted through a feed on LiveJournal, don't do it. Stay away from LiveJournal for twenty-four hours. That can't be too hard, can it? I know some of you are probably quite active on LiveJournal and will find it hard to stay away for an entire day, just as I will, but this is something that needs to be done, to show the people running LiveJournal that we're watching the changes they are making, that we're paying attention, that we're discontent, and that we want to be heard and taken in to consideration. We are not simply users who can be tossed to the side and ignored. We are the people who make up LiveJournal. Without us, without the content we create, without our words, our voices, our creativity, our participation, there would be no LiveJournal. This is a fact, and it needs to be realized and understood and then taken in to consideration when making decisions regarding the way that LiveJournal is run. The strike is only a few days away, so there isn't all too much time to prepare. While this is unfortunate, it isn't enough to keep this strike from taking place. It will take place, the second it is meant to, and it would be best to have as many people take part as possible. Please, spread the word. Spread it fast. There are only a few days to organize this. If you find that you care about LiveJournal or care about the people you interact with on LiveJournal or simply want it to remain a place where you can entertain yourself without constant censorship and money-hungry practices being thrown in without the consideration of those who use the service, act now. If you don't wish to spread the word, that is fine, but please: refrain from using LiveJournal on Friday, March 21st. Do something else for a change. It's for a good cause. (:

What's this about?

* It's about free and ad-free LiveJournal accounts being abolished for new members, ignoring the advice from the newly-formed Advisory Board.
* It's about LJ staff trying to sneak this decision in under the radar, and when people found out, telling the users it was done 'to make the signup process less confusing'.
* It's about LJ staff failing to apologize for trying to hide the facts from view and for lying about the actual reasons for their actions.
* And finally, it's about the latest decision to hide certain user interests from the list of Most Popular Interests, some of them being fanfiction, bisexuality, sex and depression. This decision was not announced or explained in any way. Users found out for themselves."



I do NOT agree with this! LJ is a business! They make BUSINESS decisions and also.. How will it work?! It won't "HARM" LJ so therefore.. how will it impress them? Just less traffic for the servers, eh?

I don't give a shit and will be posting like normal on MARCH 21! Plus.. people with paid accounts aren't affected at all.

OI. This shit is sorta retarded.

ETA-- Not meant to offend, just my opinion.
 
 
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Evil Princess Tera[info]eviltera on March 18th, 2008 06:51 pm (UTC)
I have boobs
Kimm: Cooking[info]xbuttmccrakenx on March 18th, 2008 11:25 pm (UTC)
OMFG me too.. you're are probably better though :P
back to square nothing: Atlantis - Ronon punches McKay[info]incorporeal_x on March 18th, 2008 07:01 pm (UTC)
zomg something on the internet isn't FOR FREEEE.

Tards. Ads like everywhere else or pay for more awesome shit.
Justified[info]allconsoffun on March 18th, 2008 08:06 pm (UTC)
ooh do we get to debate this?!!? LUV U!!!

my feeling is this...i would have NEVER gotten a paid acct here just off the bat just b/c my friends luv'd this place...i had my free acct for like 3 1/2 mths before i wanted a pd acct...but if i hadn't been able to use the free acct, i'd NEVER even joined.

beyond that...yep. it's a business...and they are wanting to make money....but perhaps better marketing is the place to start and not stripping the basic accts?!?!!?

my .02... you got change for penny? hehehe
oRly?: GW: Heart 2 Heart[info]holycrapliz on March 18th, 2008 09:56 pm (UTC)
Yeeeaaaah I won't be posting but thats because I work a full day of work + I've got the dog so I'll be lucky if I find free time to go online. O_o
[info]shatteredvirtue on March 19th, 2008 10:44 pm (UTC)
Heard that! Half of LJ's members are Russian anyway! (I tried to find a random lj, three seperate times... and each time, I came across an lj in russian, or another non-english language.)

Frankly, it's Good Friday anyhow, isn't it? So it'll be dead anyway.
Dying Star: for your protection[info]sapphirevampire on March 20th, 2008 01:24 am (UTC)
I'm surprised this has only showed up twice on my Flist... o_O

But I concur. It's like that "don't buy gasoline on (insert date here)" thing that goes around every once in a while. *shrugs* If I post, I post. If I don't, well...