InsaneJournal

Tweak says, "You make my mouth drool."

tsukinofaerii (tsukinofaerii) wrote in picket_line,
@ 2008-03-21 08:44:00

Current mood:

twitchy

Last Half
Well, we're in the last half of the official Strike. I thought I could go a whole 24 hours without doing more than Anon commenting. BOY was I wrong. The verification process just annoys me, and OpenID (as I keep whining) seems to be holding its own strike. So now I have an IJ. And another little piece of me breaks. (sigh) But I suppose I can occupy myself by altering my pre-made layouts to fit IJ, so at least that's one thing to do... It took me forever to get used to GJ's layout differences, and now look where that went!

One of my major hurdles so far is that I want to blog about not blogging. Does that make any sense at all? There's this incredible urge to rant about how unexpectedly hard this is. I didn't realize how much I'd gotten used to using LJ as my vent/cheer forum (or how much I used to just browse and lurk in comment threads!) until I deliberately stopped doing it. Is anyone else experiencing this? For that matter, how many people are (also) considering staying away for a weekend rather than a day?

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	elance 2008-03-21 01:24 pm UTC (link)
	I'm considering seriously cutting down my time on LJ altogether. I've noted that my addiction really has been limiting my interactions anywhere else. I am not sure that I love IJ (I'm still annoyed by the whole theme of the place), but it's somewhere different. It's a different atmosphere, which I like. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	pen 2008-03-21 01:31 pm UTC (link)
	check out ideas. You're not the first and someone just acked about how to get rid of the "theme" so to speak. (Reply to this) (Parent)

tsukinofaerii
2008-03-21 02:00 pm UTC (link)

I can see that being an issue. :/ I might join you in that, except that all of my friends are LJ-only since I moved across the country. (headdesk) Plus, I'm at work all day with nothing but a computer screen to stare at all day. LJ is one of the few places that's both interesting and constantly updated enough to keep me entertained. But when I sit down and the first address I almost type is livejournal? There's a problem there.

The theme is kind of "oO;;;", isn't it? I usually prefer smoother, more classic layouts... this is weird. But the Tweak Says is amusing. XD

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	greenwitch 2008-03-21 02:49 pm UTC (link)
	I'm considering seriously cutting down my time on LJ altogether. I've noted that my addiction really has been limiting my interactions anywhere else. That's what it comes down to -- I'm not really boycotting, but I'm reducing my time spent on LJ significantly and posting more elsewhere. (Reply to this) (Parent)

pen
2008-03-21 01:30 pm UTC (link)

Do it. Get it off your chest. :-)

It isn't like that for me anymore because I made this switch back in January. Cutting back on my comm participation there made it a lot easier, but I am finding the friends page tough to not do.

For me the hardest was realizing that so many of my friends disagreed with me, which is fine, but that it was clear from the way they talked to me that I became their enemy. Last night when I was refreshing my IJ friends list, I accidentally refreshed my LJ list and saw an anti-strike meme that accuses the strikers of inadvertently supporting antisemites. To me that's like saying being against the war in Iraq is supporting the Terrorists forces there. It's the thinnest of threads and not really true at all.

Finally, one of the major investors in SUP is known to be a close associate's of Putin. Something tells me that's not a powerless connection to have.

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tsukinofaerii
2008-03-21 02:15 pm UTC (link)

But that would mean (gasp!) posting in my new IJ! What if my hands wither off or something?

XD I do comms for the fandom, mostly, so that's not my problem at all. But I love my flist with an almighty passion. There's a lot of people there who I just can't see IRL anymore, and phone calls are too awkward to arrange because of schedules (three hours time difference, I work and most of them do too? Or have classes? x.X Not feasible). And then there's a ton of people I only know on LJ. :/ Friends are pretty much the only family consider myself to have now, so even thinking about pulling away is hard.

We're antisemites?! oO;; I never knew I was a bigot! I wonder if

clex_monkie89 knows that I hate her. I didn't know I hated her. Huh. Just when you think you know yourself, someone comes along and proves that you're almost as horrible as they are.

... whaddya know, sarcasm can drip...

Mmhm, but the owner is American, which is kind of hope-making. But the Putin connection is actually one of my more philosophical reasons for not leaving. If the buyout was an attempt to silence Russian political dissent online, then it's suddenly become vital that we keep LJ going, and raise holy hell whenever someone makes a move towards censorship. Any move against LJ.Ru specifically risks getting splashed all across the American media (especially since LJ is so vocal - I know I would go to CNN with the story), so I don't think they're going to just close that corner or start censoring people openly. I don't know about physical attacks or legal ones, but as a company LJ and SUP's hands are pretty much tied. However, when you're dealing with politics, $30M is a drop in the bucket. It's completely possible that the goal is to drive LJ in general into the ground, because bad business choices aren't likely to be connected to politics. Overall, it's the safe choice. But they can't easily kill the company if we're doing our damnedest to keep it going.

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lavendertook
2008-03-21 07:41 pm UTC (link)

There does seem to be a faction of Russian users who are virulently antisemitic and apparently they have tried to piggyback with the strike/boycott. It's important to note them and tell them their antisemitism is not welcome. Anyway, I'm Jewish and I wrote the terms Beckyzoole, who is also Jewish, included in the strike/boycott statement. So set your friends straight on their facts.

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lauramcewan
2008-03-21 02:09 pm UTC (link)

It's my wedding anniversary today and I'm not on my regular journal. I have plans on moving the whole thing over, but it does seem odd to not be posting or reading like I usually do. I completely killed LJ off my Firefox tabs and I'm not opening Semagic. My 24 hours are up at 5pm my time, but at that point I'll be getting ready to go out with hubby, so it may be Saturday before I"m back. I could very easily go the whole weekend, but I'm not sure if it will happen.

The good thing is, since I put up the Strike banner, my friends who have IJs and didn't necessarily go with the strike (or maybe they did; I'm not looking at LJ! lol) are finding me here and replying to posts I made last night. So it's all cool.

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tsukinofaerii
2008-03-21 02:19 pm UTC (link)

Happy Anniversary then! :D

My cut-off is 8PM, but that's when I'm just getting started on my evening routine (dogs, clean, etc)... So going past that will be hard. :/ But I think I'm going to. One day just doesn't make enough of a point for me.

XD I wish mine would do that, but they're too well trained. I go activist a lot for various things, so most of them are probably rolling their eyes and going "here we go again".

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das_dingsi
2008-03-21 02:14 pm UTC (link)

One of my major hurdles so far is that I want to blog about not blogging. Does that make any sense at all?

I think it does. The weird part is, even when there's a time when I rarely update, as soon as I can't update for some reason I feel like I really need to RIGHT NOW OMG. Just like, you know, when you have a CD you rarely listen to but when you have lent it to a friend you keep thinking "hmm, I'd like to have that CD on my player today..."

The strike's not really a bad situation for me because I left LJ months ago and have long grown attached to IJ, with a very active friendslist (the asylums are quieter, but I'm still sure this is going to change with time). But suddenly I caught myself thinking I should update my LJ with some thoughts on the strike. *facepalms*

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tsukinofaerii
2008-03-21 02:26 pm UTC (link)

Exactly like that! Things at work are interesting and there's things with the dogs and whatnot... but I normally don't write about that stuff! And now I want to!

For me, it like when you think you'll be incredibly busy all day and so don't bring a novel or whatever... and then you find out you have time to read it and nothing to read! Or like being on a diet. Junk food it soooo close, but you won't let yourself touch it. Mind over habit (and oh gods I'm quoting my Grandpa now, this must be an asylum).

XD I actually planned on writing today, because I almost never do. And then I cracked open my files and realized that not a single one is safe to write at work. (headdesk) So I ended up doing a strange character-perspective letter-from-myself thing for Kingdom Hearts and now I want to post that too. And ask other people to post ones like it! o-o;; Maybe I'll do it somewhere on IJ...

I'm not normally this wordy, I swear.

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dangerous_47
2008-03-21 02:42 pm UTC (link)

I just started at 12 AM here yesterday and won't go near LJ until after 12 tonight. lol. I live in Iceland. lol. :)

But I get that you wanna blog about not bloggin. It'd be easier if I was working. lmao. But I haz Easter vaction, and so I have nothing to really but watch movies and stuff. lol.

I might just stay away for the weekend. Hmm. I quite like this place. Sure, it's a bi quiet and not a lot of my friends are here. None of my Icelandic friends are doing this, I think anyways. But yes, I was never one to do the normal things, really. lol.

I like my layout, it's pretty but I wish I could find a fandom-y custom one. lol. :)

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tsukinofaerii
2008-03-21 03:01 pm UTC (link)

For once, the lack of an official Easter Holiday in the US works to my benefit? Wait, I don't celebrate Easter... Drats. I need a religion with 365 separate holidays.

"Normal" doesn't equate "LJ member" very well. XD We're all a bit different. But it is nice here... I just wish I could import my flist. Then it would be a lot easier to move. And even then, I couldn't avoid LJ entirely because there's some authors that just don't post anywhere else! Grrble.

Your layout IS pretty! :D But it needs more fandom, truly. (ponders trying to create another Fandom Nation flag and turning it into a layout...)

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	madlodger 2008-03-21 02:52 pm UTC (link)
	A spanking brand new journal :) Welcome to IJ then! I will most likely stay away from LJ for a whole weekend. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	tsukinofaerii 2008-03-21 03:02 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you! At this rate, I probably will too. SIGH I just know ShoeBox will update if I do... Which is more incentive, really. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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flauschwolke
2008-03-21 02:55 pm UTC (link)

I've started at 1 am ... and I will be still on the PC when the strike ends.

Yeah, I can REALLY understand you. Sometimes I write very much in my LJ, now in the holidays I write nothing in my LJ ... but, now, NOW I WANT TO POST THERE. I want to post there and go to my friendslist and comment somethings and read and all that things. Yeah.
I was some months off from LJ ... and I'm here on IJ, but I moved back 'cause there so many friends of mine. I love my flist, I love it to know that anybody read the stuff that I write, and I'm still thinking that IJ looks a lil bit unfriendly, so I'm not feeling very well when I say the IJ-Theme. (I like Tweak. I don't like the grey-yellow theme. And everything looks so TINY here and so ... .. tiny. Yeah.)
I'm having some friends here on IJ, but most of them are on LJ and they don't want to move.

So I don't move.

And yeeah, blog about not blogging, please! That will be very funny, I think. :D

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tsukinofaerii
2008-03-21 03:32 pm UTC (link)

BLOGGED. ^_^;;;

Yeah. The layout is strange, the graphics are weird... And it's so quiet! I think everyone who doesn't move, for the most part, have the same reasons. But so many people don't want to move that it's a traffic jam. Some of my friends would move if their friends (including me) would move... and so on down the list. It's only the inertia and "I don't care" people who hold a lot of us back. I wonder if LJ knows how thin that thread is?

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	mercurychaos 2008-03-21 03:08 pm UTC (link)
	It sounds like you're having withdrawl. XD But seriously... you have an IJ now, so use it. I've been reading through the comments; all that stuff you want to post? Post it over here. :D (Reply to this) (Thread)

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magickaldreamer
2008-03-21 03:30 pm UTC (link)

I've gone 15.5 hours without so much as typing in livejournal.com in the address bar. I decided I was going to go completely cold turkey away from LJ, and it's worked so far. I figure I'll get weak later today, and start being obsessive on IJ to combat my LJ urges. Though I never really saw the CONTENT strike being that big of a deal for me, it's just a matter of me not going on at all and reading the comments and posts, which is what I do with a great deal of my time. But I made my decision, and I'm sticking to it.

I don't feel like I'm making any sense, so I'm going to stop now. I apologize for seemingly hijacking your post.

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	logovo 2008-03-21 03:33 pm UTC (link)
	I'm planning on staying away from posting for a month, trying to settle in here and see if I can make this my primary journal, but there is no way I can leave my flist. I'll be checking in there quite often. (Reply to this) (Thread)

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	winterthunder 2008-03-21 04:44 pm UTC (link)
	Hee, yeah, I've caught myself going "Damn, I want to post about not being able to post!" I'm not sure I'll do the whole weekend. If I do, it'll be because I've got a bunch of essays that need researching. :P (Reply to this) (Thread)

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	nachtstern 2008-03-21 07:17 pm UTC (link)
	I didn't even realize how using twitter and lj to just write a sentence or two at a time is relaxing and calming ;) I sometimes had a weeks or two that I didn't write anything in my journal, but the moment you can't... yeah. (Reply to this) (Thread)

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tsukinofaerii, 2008-03-21 07:58 pm UTC

I'm boycotting for a week.

doingsoso
2008-03-21 07:38 pm UTC (link)

Weekend? I'm boycotting for a week! Every time I think of posting on my LiveJournal account, I think about what they did, what they may be planning and trying to do in a sneaky way..... again. And I get PO'd all over again! I think about all the BS, and the fact that I paid them good money for my journal, to post what I want, when I want without any kind of interference. They need a wake up call/reality check!
I'm not taking this crap laying down. I'm not going to be a robot for them.

It may not make a big difference to them, but it darned sure does something for my self respect! They haven't even given an official apology for the things, yeah as in plural, they they did. And Nossik isn't apologizing either! SUP and Nossik can kiss my lily white rear end!

If they keep up their crap after this bruhaha, I'll make the move permanent. I'm not full of hot air. Life is too short for me to put up with that kind of BS. I could care less who stays over there and who doesn't. If people can bury the facts in their minds and keep sitting there asking for that abuse, then more power to them. I just can't.

There is no forgive and forget left in me for LiveJournal. These people are adults and they're running a business providing a service for which they receive my money. They have a TOS which they ignore when it's convenient for them but not the customer.

I'm tired of them saying " Oops we're sorry", when they don't mean it, it's just said as a sop to the members. If they were really sincere they wouldn't keep doing the same things over and over, even if it's just in a slightly different way.

Sooo, they can take their apology about the free accounts thing and shove it where the sun doesn't shine. As far as I'm concerned they shouldn't have wasted their breath, or the time it took to type the insincere words.

They know all they have to do is get on there and "say" they're sorry and it'll all blow over and it's back to business as usual. Then people forget about it and keep on using LiveJournal, until the next big blow up.

Pfffft. To heck with that. I don't trust them any further than I can pick 'em up and throw 'em. LiveJournal(no matter who owns it) has a long history of interfering with its members, and it looks like it's not going to stop.

So yeah, a week long boycott for me this time. I'm putting up, and not shutting up. I can't put my money where my mouth is until December of 2008, but if they do anything else that even whispers "offensive". Any little thing that smacks of sneakiness, it doesn't matter what, between now and then, I can certainly put my money where my mouth is when my renewal time comes around!

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shadowgardens
2008-03-22 03:43 am UTC (link)

Me too OMG. I usually go on LJ every other day, but today has been so hard. I want to complain about not being able to blog! I never realized just how much time I spend on LJ. I miss it. I kept almost clicking on my Metaquotes link before I remembered that it's on LJ.

I think that's what the people who say things like, "Just get over it, if you don't like it go somewhere else." don't really get. I love LJ. I love all of my friends there. I don't want to just give up on it! I swear, these are usually the same people that don't write fan fiction but then expect us to take it up the ass, so to speak. I paid for the freaking service, I want to be informed about changes that are made the effect how I use it!

I'm going to try and stay away for a weekend. But I really want to know how the strike went. Maybe someone could post in this comm about it so I won't have to?

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