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Barak continues to eat his leg to the thigh in regards to Strikethrough PR moves over in lj_biz. Just in case any of you cool kids missed it.
Highlights (with some editorial commentary) include:
Icon directed at Barak and his handlers. Unless you would like Ms. von Karma to think you suck. Then, by all means, continue to think so. :D
Highlights (with some editorial commentary) include:
- The permanent account sale is going on as scheduled. Otherwise known as mistake #1.
- People who rush in and buy perm accounts within the first 36 hours will see $25 of their $150 go to some free speech/survivor organizations. The power of math gives us a guesstimate that this will result in a whole 3.57% of profits will go to these charities. Wow. What a great sacrifice.
- They're still clarifying their policies. Only, you know, without actually soliciting any user opinions despite promises to do so.
- Did we mention they're now explicitly going to ban stuff they just aren't willing to host?
- Automated abuse reporting is supposedly coming down the line. I see where this is going. : /
- "Clarifying the differences in policies between public and private content, and making commitments about how you can expect us to protect your private content and resist intrusions into your privacy." Um, as several people mentioned, what's going on there and why wasn't anyone informed?
- Reputation engine? Does that mean if I kill enough ogres I can be exaulted with LJ and get an epic mount? Screw that, man.
Icon directed at Barak and his handlers. Unless you would like Ms. von Karma to think you suck. Then, by all means, continue to think so. :D
keieeeye
And you're right that most of the people who friended the community will be the ones interested in this. The rest are happy to assume that everything's fine.
the_frog
Frog forsees Big Feast.
sapphoq
Hail frog
keieeeye
data_warrior
Thanks for posting the executive summary and drawing attention to the distinct lack of defined policy. IJ is looking more and more like a friendly new home.
ex_juliette558
o.O
The only thing good I can possibly get from it are the number of responses (and I don't have time to read every reply to those responses, so I don't know if it actually keeps flowing down the chain) saying "uh, are you kidding? no way, kthxbye."
I'm almost speechless about this. I mean, I don't even know what bothers me more. The fact that they think that their users are stupid enough not to see through something lame like that, or that _they're_ stupid enough to try and push it on their users to begin with. "Yeah, we're not going to host stuff 6A doesn't like. But we'll decide what that is after you pony up the dough."
Pardon my french, but seriously, what a fat load of $#17
ex_juliette558
Re: o.O
Apparently, on a subconscious level, he does...
I also want to plaster this chick's comments over the face of every pro-censorship fool who ever even pulled up a websearch for a livejournal page:
http://community.livejournal.com/lj
Okay, I'm done now. I think. Thanks for posting that, despite the fact I think my blood pressure just rose about 50 points :P
luzzu
Re: o.O
liz_marcs
I cannot even believe that LJ/6A is going ahead with the perm account sale when they still haven't addressed any issues raised by the Strikeout.
Now they're promising to get something to us today. Unh, yeah. Sure. Note that there'll be plenty of time for users to vet it. And how about that input we were supposed to get?
Either they're really stupid, or they think we are. Neither option suits me.
lostangelssong
It came up when sponsored accounts were introduced and when SA/LJ decided that people couldn't have pictures of nipples, or breastfeeding as their default user icon. Both times they asked for feedback, and both times, the response they got from the users was overwhelmingly negative. And they did it anyway.
I guess by giving us something today they'll give the illusion of giving people a chance to give their input, and then just do whatever the hell they want anyway.
kerflufflebunny
dixprincesse
thrillkiller
dixprincesse
luzzu
I don't appreciate my intelligence being insulted.
ingrid
HA! The only "epic mount" LJ users are going to get will be in their poor behinds.
I'm not sure what the mystery is here ... LJ is bringing the hammer down, they might as well accept it, on both sides.
sylumgator
Sure, and when they change things in the last minute, they can shrug and say "well, it was our intention, but we couldn't do that". To bad.
rabbitboy
Go take a look in the news community, at the comment responses to krissy announcing permanent accounts. I counted at least two people saying, "What? What is this 'strikethrough' thing everyone is talking about? Can someone explain it please?" That was just on the first few pages.
What's really sad is the gross majority of folks who just do not care. There it is, black and white, right there for them to look at. "Clarifying our policies so that it's easier to understand what kinds of content Six Apart is either unwilling to host or legally unable to host." And they just... don't care.
P.S. BERKOWITCHHUNT is now a meme.
ex_juliette558
rabbitboy
Maybe that's just me though.
I guess it's kind of encouraging to see a pretty vocal group all expressing the "No I don't think so" attitude to this announcement. There are people paying attention, who know what's going on. They just aren't upset enough to jump ship with the rest of us ratz.
I'm learning a lot from this little evolution, I gotta admit. I'll be looking at things from an entirely different perspective from here on out.
ex_juliette558
for what it's worth...
Heh, no that's not just you >D
emilie_burns
sapphoq
the stoopids
Even if their policy became awesomely beautiful and everything I ever wanted, they are not getting another dime.
I hate them.
I added berkowitchhunt and Baraked to my nifty set of "interests" on my fake profile page over there.
[I saved the real one under a cut].
I like it here.
But I really do have to get more sleep tonight.
I was up til 4am making comments and whatnot there.
spike
vincent_z
A salient point which I offer; because I have some experience with this vis-a-vis erotic "amateur" webcam sites (specifically: AnyWebCam.com); is
(The background: AnyWebCam.com offered "gold" lifetime memberships. But when its servers continued to get swamped, despite the funds allegedly going to more, and faster servers; some AWC lifetime members began using JMeeting as their preferred webcam site.
AWC deleted every reference to JMeeting in those persons' information pages; and terminated some lifetime members when they persisted in mentioning JMeeting.)
[AWC is an Australian corporation, so an attempt to litigate against it hit a snag, because most of the targeted parties were in the U.S.A.]
My LJ (Free) Account associated with this personae was permanently suspended, probably because I was a Friend to littlegirllover, and had made constructive replies on selected entries of his. It was reinstated. (The anti-erotica vigilantés of course, did not bother to actually read my entire User Info page.)
But there is no way I will ever again trust LJ / 6 Ap. I have no intention of giving it any money; and no intention to make another entry on my LJs - yes, including the above-ground one which was not suspended.