[info]lastscorpion in [info]07refugees

So, now livejournal is deleting/screening comments to their news posts, such as people complaining that the new color scheme for some dang thing is ugly, and then banning those people from commenting in news!

People are posting screencaps. Go over and look before it all disappears! :-)

http://news.livejournal.com/102907.html?page=9#comments
http://news.livejournal.com/102907.html?thread=64256763#t64256763
http://saralogan.livejournal.com/163520.html

ETA: The ugly new doohickey is the customization page, and apparently the new one no longer supports overrides, which (if I understand correctly) are pretty much essential to actually, you know, customizing the look of your lj.

http://news.livejournal.com/102907.html?thread=64274171#t64274171
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Posted on Sep. 21st, 2007 at 09:54 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]reijamira

Oh man, really, LJ never ceases to amaze me, in an extremely shocking way that is.

Thanks for letting us know about that!

Posted on Sep. 22nd, 2007 08:18 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]lastscorpion

You're welcome! Most of the fun that still exists with lj is just in watching the slow-motion trainwreck of it all, so I'm happy to share!
Posted on Sep. 22nd, 2007 07:14 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]reijamira

It all goes down, I'm sure about that!
Posted on Sep. 22nd, 2007 07:16 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]mllesatine

Shame on this.

I have to agree with a user who posted in the news entry: "No one 'cares' because most who would have already left LiveJournal."

Goodbye, LJ. You will leave us sooner or later anyway.

Or in pirate speak: Ayy, ye landrats! Start swimmin'! Th' H.M.S. Livejournal's sinkin' and sink it will! Arrrr!
Posted on Sep. 22nd, 2007 11:14 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]lastscorpion

LOL about your pirate lingo!
Posted on Sep. 22nd, 2007 07:17 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]happier_bunny

Oh, I cannot wait to see what they do next.
Posted on Sep. 22nd, 2007 02:58 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]lastscorpion

I love your icon!
Posted on Sep. 22nd, 2007 07:18 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]happier_bunny

hee me too. It's shareable w/ credit to it's maker - although I don't remember off the top of my head who that is but it's in my userpics. :)
Posted on Sep. 22nd, 2007 09:55 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]teh_kittykat

Icon says it all. :D

Honestly, it's almost to the point where LJ flist be damned. :/
Posted on Sep. 22nd, 2007 03:15 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]lastscorpion

LOL at the icon!

So, my lj f-list used to almost always take longer to read than I had time for -- I'd run out of time long before I'd get back to the posts that I recognized. Nowadays, I only have to click on "earlier entries" once, and I'm back to the previous stuff. The majority of the people I follow seem to have mostly quit posting there.
Posted on Sep. 22nd, 2007 09:32 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]teh_kittykat

Same here.. If I didn't have wow_ladies friended I'd probably never leave my first friends page screen. As it is, 90% of the stuff that is on there is wow_ladies.
Posted on Sep. 23rd, 2007 03:48 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]jalendavi_lady

One of my fandom comms has been nearly completely dead since the first wave. Granted, we'd only averaged maybe two posts a month, but there's only been two or maybe even just one post since the interest-search wave of the original Strikethrough.
Posted on Sep. 23rd, 2007 05:30 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

(Anonymous)

Mine, too!
Posted on Sep. 24th, 2007 06:29 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]scorpio

wow, after reading this, i was curious to see if one of my comments had been screened/deleted/frozen and i found one O_O

http://news.livejournal.com/102907.html?thread=64091643#t64091643

that thread seems perfectly harmless to me... wtf? (im "component" in that thread btw).
Posted on Sep. 22nd, 2007 06:37 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]scorpio

it also appears that LJ has turned off the secure login page because someone mentioned that you can log in there without seeing adverts :/

http://news.livejournal.com/102907.html?thread=64278779#t64278779
Posted on Sep. 22nd, 2007 06:50 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]lastscorpion

Yeah, they're quite the barrel of monkeys over there these days.

Apparently, the ugly new whatever doesn't actually work, either

http://news.livejournal.com/102907.html?thread=64274171#t64274171
Posted on Sep. 22nd, 2007 07:10 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]scorpio

yeah, i noticed that as i was reading the comments... *sighs*
Posted on Sep. 22nd, 2007 07:11 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]scorpio

just wanted to correct my recent comment by saying that the secure login page DOES work, its just that i clicked a url that was typed incorrectly.
Posted on Sep. 22nd, 2007 08:26 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]lastscorpion

How honest of you to correct yourself like this!

Guess you don't work for lj, eh?
Posted on Sep. 22nd, 2007 09:29 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]scorpio

lol at least we've got some humour out of this XD
Posted on Sep. 22nd, 2007 09:33 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]velvetwhip

You can no longer do overrides?!?!


Gabrielle
Posted on Sep. 23rd, 2007 04:02 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]lastscorpion

The new customization page that they're talking about there hasn't been implemented yet. Apparently they're just starting beta on it. If they listen to the people who are commenting (kind of a big if, IMO), then they'll probably put overrides back in before it becomes the real deal.

Posted on Sep. 23rd, 2007 11:36 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]velvetwhip

Well I hope they listen for once!


Gabrielle
Posted on Sep. 23rd, 2007 02:37 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]court1429

The customization page looks the same as it always has to me. And I'm also not seeing all these new ads that people are mentioning they see even though they're paid members (as I am). What am I missing here?
Posted on Sep. 23rd, 2007 06:49 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]lastscorpion

Mmm, popcorn!

The customization page that they're talking about in that news post is the new one that's just starting beta. It's possible that they'll put the overrides back in before the new customization page becomes the default, or even that they'll run the new page concurrent with the old one for a while, like s1 and s2 page schemes. Not important enough (or, to be fair, not decided yet) for lj news.

I think the ad that people are (currently lol) complaining about is this one:

"Knocked Up" Is Coming Soon To DVD
The movie "Knocked Up" starring Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogen is coming out on DVD, September, 25th! To celebrate the DVD release, Ben of “Knocked Up” is returning to the knockedupmovie Sponsored Community to discuss the next phase of relationships.
Posted on Sep. 23rd, 2007 11:42 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

(Anonymous)

matcha here

Just copy+pasting [info]elfwreck's links and those from the thread in case it gets deleted/screened:

List of deleted/screened comments

beehner banned from commenting in News:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a303/pimp-my-yarn/banhammer.png

3 screened comments:
http://news.livejournal.com/102907.html?thread=64091643#t64091643
(one of them refers to https://www.livejournal.com/login - the SECURE login, with no ads.)

Deleted:
http://news.livejournal.com/102907.html?thread=64100603#t64100603

Screened:
http://news.livejournal.com/102907.html?thread=64107515#t64107515
(that's yours; apparently made comments about the new customization page?)

2 deleted posts stacked:
http://news.livejournal.com/102907.html?nc=706&page=3#comments
Second one:
http://news.livejournal.com/102907.html?thread=64184059#t64184059
(can't link to the first; no way to get there.)

[info]damanique
http://news.livejournal.com/102907.html?thread=64101627#t64101627

Maybe it's because I used this icon. :P
Posted on Sep. 24th, 2007 06:44 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]lastscorpion

Re: matcha here

Thanks for the links!
Posted on Sep. 24th, 2007 08:10 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply