[info]amenosakura in [info]07refugees

mood: contemplative
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but LJ's bringing basic accounts back by the end of the summer for the Northern Hemisphere.

Thoughts? Comments?

Posted on Jul. 17th, 2008 at 10:37 am | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]snakeling

Though to be honest, strikethrough/boldthrough wasn't them at all; it was 6Apart. At least SUP is willing to learn from their mistakes?
Posted on Jul. 17th, 2008 01:29 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]elfwreck

Strikethrough/Boldthrough was 6A. However, the new owners:
1) Never apologized for it,
2) Never said, "oh, we won't ever do that to you" (and let's not think about how much such a promise would be worth),
3) DID and still are blocking some interest searches,
4) Removed some interests from the "most popular" page,
5) Continued to enforce the schizoid and irrational "no erotic depictions of cartoon characters" rule, until they'd figured out how to change it.

They've also declined to allow people banned under Strikethrough or the previous Nipplegate rulings to get their accounts back. So they fully support Strikethrough, even if they've decided to use different methods in the future.
Posted on Jul. 17th, 2008 01:37 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]xie_xie_xie

I know that's technically correct, but I suspect that some of the more egregious acts of stupidity at LiveJournal were instigated by SUP, who was already involved in LiveJournal's operations in Russia with Six Apart. I believe this for two reasons:

One, it's not like that deal happened overnight; for some period, probably months but perhaps longer, they were discussing it and negotiating. You'd have to think if SUP had some concerns, Six Apart might have been working on addressing them so the deal could happen. It was an open secret that they wanted to dump LJ.

Two, and for me this is the most telling, NONE of SixApart's other blogging companies has rules like this, nor does idiotic things like this. If they tried to get bloggers to "flag" our TypePad blogs for "adult content"? The entire blogosphere would go up in flames.

We may never know, but I suspect SUP had far more to do with these things than SixApart.
Posted on Jul. 17th, 2008 01:57 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]scorpio

I completely agree. They were most likely catoring to SUP before they actually handed it over. They had to get their money's worth SOMEHOW and if implementing stupid features was the only way, then so be it. If flagging was six aparts idea, it would definitely have made it onto Vox FIRST. It's not on Vox period.
Posted on Jul. 19th, 2008 11:53 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply