June 20th, 2007


[info]teh_kittykat in [info]07refugees

More News You Can Use

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:
  • 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.
Thoughts? Comments? Gloating? Rabid weasels? It looks like the majority of posters are sane people who have been repeating the refrain of policy first, payment maybe. But who wants to bet that only a fraction of people actually friended lj_biz and learned about it all in the first place?

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
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[info]guiltyred in [info]07refugees

The madness didn't start with ST07

After reading [info]teh_kittykat's post about the continuing LJ debacle, I read through some of the earlier lj_biz entries and damned if I didn't find something that made my head spin. ><#

SCROLL A LITTLE OVER HALFWAY DOWN, RIGHT BEFORE THE REASSURANCE TO FANDOMS BIT





Abe Hassan


answers to your questions about sponsored communities



* Anti-advertiser content One of our core principles is that of free expression. We're privately held, and so we don't have to offer a great deal of freedom, but it's something that every single one of us believes very strongly in. If a company wants to promote something on LJ, they don't get the privilege of "censoring" anything they don't agree with. [emphasis mine] However -- just like any other community -- they're welcome to run their communities as they wish. This does mean that they can delete comments or entries that they don't want in their sponsored community. (This is no different than the maintainer of a community about bundt cakes deleting entries that describe how to knit sweaters for gerbils or deleting entries that talk about how awful bundt cakes are; that's at his or her discretion.)

To be clear: Unless an account is already in violation of our Terms of Service, we will not take down journals, communities, or content that is offensive or objectionable to a sponsor. They are aware (and still want to advertise here) that users can write anything that they want. What's permissible on this site is governed by the policies we've had for years, not our advertisers. Their position as a sponsor doesn't give them extra "clout" in that respect.


[quoted direct from source]

written by burr86  in lj_biz
 
@ 2006-10-03 18:19:00

EDIT: sorry about the delete and repost, the html thing was bugging me. ^^;
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[info]monster_of_hope in [info]07refugees

Moving content from livejournal to insanejournal

Does anyone have any tips?

Can I make a backup of my livejournal and then port the entries here?

After Six Apart's baffling "clarifications" today, many more LiveJournal users are developing an interest in InsaneJournal, and the ability to move content easily is crucial for many.

Thank you for your help!
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