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WFI update

I know that some of you are still watching the whole Warriors For Innocence drama at LJ.  So, here is a little update.

Apparently WFI is writing letters via email to people that advertise with LJ.  So, what everyone has been saying all along is true...we haven't seen the end of this.

You can find this reference here:  http://community.livejournal.com/fanthropology/355022.html

The apathy after the apology just killed me...I don't expect people to leave now...but I am hoping that we can persuade some more (the ones we care about) to jump ship before it completely sinks.

Thank you for your time.

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Posted on Jun. 19th, 2007 at 01:31 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]thrillkiller

Well, eh. A lot of equally despicable people are very famous and popular. Look up what Fred Phelps' kids have said about him. But yeah, it definitely handicaps them right out of the gate.

Of course not, but sometimes humans do idiotic things, especially where the Internet is concerned. Any new media is going to be full of companies overreacting to the importance of things happening on it. The Web isn't exactly BRAND NEW anymore, but as a media it's still more than new enough to provoke that kind of idiocy. Remember the dot-com bubble? I worked at a dotcom for $8.50 an hour just cleaning up broken HTML, mainly bad a hrefs.

They gave me $8.50 an hour, and didn't bother to check that I was billing them for actual WORKING hours (as opposed to messing-around-on-the-Web hours) in order to fix image links.

Doesn't sound smart, does it? Made perfect sense at the time, especially without knowledge of the tremendous crash around the bend. (Damn, do I ever miss that job... )

Anyway, point is -- doing stupid shit is part of being a corporation. I'd be amazed if any publicly-offered company in existence right now hadn't done some similar panicky Stupid Thing in response to a minor stimuli.
Posted on Jun. 19th, 2007 10:26 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]ingrid

Anyway, point is -- doing stupid shit is part of being a corporation. I'd be amazed if any publicly-offered company in existence right now hadn't done some similar panicky Stupid Thing in response to a minor stimuli.

But of course! That being said, it doesn't bode well for current and future revenue, especially from an already skittish source ... 'Net denizens aren't noted for their patience or their tolerance, of, well, intolerance. ;)

The only thing on their side is that the memory of Net Denizens ain't that great. Of course, if anyone's around to remind them ...
Posted on Jun. 19th, 2007 10:36 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply