[info]sylumgator in [info]07refugees

LJ day of silence planned

mood: thoughtful
You guys hear of this? Plans for this friday-
refs to other journals....
http://beckyzoole.livejournal.com/394548.html
and I got it from
http://nightstalker.insanejournal.com/24225.html
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Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 at 12:56 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]mercurychaos

Funny you should mention that... I just made an RSS feed of that comm so I could check it from here: [info]ljspeaks_feed.
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 05:16 pm (UTC) | | Reply

[info]fading_xhopex

I don't think it will work very well, not unless it's a drawn out thing. As someone pointed out, a single day will be a minor blip. And honestly, A lot of people i know who had basic accounts upgraded to the plus accounts of their own volition because they wanted more icons and more layout options. Not to mention if you get an ad blocker program, the ads aren't that big of an issue.

I think LJ could have done a better job of notifing its customer base, but on the whole, it is a sound business decision. They just need to work on their customer relation skills, and since that is the case, I think the letter writing campaign will work better.
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 05:19 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]pen

Yeah, I think the reinstitution of the interest searches is changing the dynamic from poor customer service to something else.
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 05:57 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]lavendertook

It's not a sound business decision though, as LJ's founder notes here.

I think they have a bad business model for the kind of platform they are operating--which includes the bad customer relations.
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 06:21 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]stacia

I'm also concerned that a strike on Friday won't be noticed. My flists on Fridays are almost barren, because it's the weekend and people are off doing other things rather than posting online.

(Anyone else notice there's a few people on beckyzoole's flist that are being jerks? Especially considering it's her personal journal, you'd think they'd be less rude about a disagreement of opinions.)
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 06:31 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]pen

Yes. beckzoule originally posted it to ljsepeaks yesterday.
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 05:56 pm (UTC) | | Reply

[info]sakura

For one day, make no posts. Make no comments. Let there be NO new content added to LJ.

Some of us have been doing that for how many months now... :p
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 08:32 pm (UTC) | | Reply

[info]greenwitch

For reasons mentioned above, I also don't think that this is going to affect much. In the end, the percentage of disgruntled LJ users is very small compared to the entire userbase.

That said, it would be interesting if people did start to band together to try and wean ourselves all off of LJ by posting less and less frequently overall, versus a one-day boycott, i.e. if there was some sort of support community (over here?) where we could all announce how proud we were that we didn't post for 5 days in a row, or whatever. I don't know if any of the "leavin lj" style comms are there for that sort of thing (I don't think it's real appropriate for here), but something like that in the long run would be far more effective.
Posted on Mar. 17th, 2008 11:36 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]wyrdkat

Heh, I like the idea of a support community for weaning ourselves off LJ.

It is hard, I've been trying since last summer but I can't seem to fully give up LJ, it seems so quiet over here compared to there.
Posted on Mar. 18th, 2008 12:55 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]wyrdkat

If I remember correctly there was something similar organized during the whole "nipplegate" thing (the breastfeeding default icon issue)and I know I had people on my flist who went as far as deleting their journals for 24 hours...didn't do any good as we all know and LJ just keeps getting worse. I can't see how this would do any good either.
Posted on Mar. 18th, 2008 12:49 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]jackandahat

It won't. Especially since a bunch of tossers are trying to organise an anti-protest, where they post as much as possible to counteract any effect of people not posting.
Posted on Mar. 18th, 2008 01:40 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]skuf

Do you have any links testifying to this?
Posted on Mar. 18th, 2008 01:52 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]jackandahat

<a href="http://liamstliam.livejournal.com/395795.html>The other one deleted hers</a>
Posted on Mar. 18th, 2008 04:30 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]skuf

Thanks!
Posted on Mar. 20th, 2008 10:09 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]jackandahat

And I broke my HTML, well how about that? *facepalm*
Posted on Mar. 20th, 2008 10:12 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]severed_lies

The reality is that the few people who will participate in a strike will not impact LJ at all. It did get me to think about not posting, then I said, why not delete my LJ. So I have. I feel much better now.

And FYI, if you post to LJ using Open ID, a user pic is allowed. Weird.
Posted on Mar. 18th, 2008 02:08 am (UTC) | | Reply