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Poll #740 Reasons for migration
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Which was the worst journaling experience that made you migrate here to Insanejournal?
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Livejournal strikethrough, 07? 167 (69.9%)
Greatestjournal's owner system's constant unpredictable restrictions? 58 (24.3%)
Other 48 (20.1%)
Russian Company SUP
Silly me was optimistic and thought 6A actually meant what they said after Strikethrough '07.
But, yeah, Squeaky does give us a heads-up for what's gonna go down when he does site maintenance. system at GJ barely, if ever, does that.
The flagging, tag limits, and sale to SUP just poked me over into buying a permanent account here.
Other reasons I've seen for leaving:
- Nipplegate '06, when LJ decided you can't show female nipples & aureolas in default icons--even if those nipples are directly involved in feeding a baby. (The idea of an act that's legal in public being forbidden for "explicit sexuality or obscenity" on LJ bothered a lot of people.)
- Strikethrough, Round 2: Boldthrough
- Flagging/SUP, which would be two separate issues, except that they hit so close together there's no real difference.
Other individual reasons include:Suspended (or censured) for posting someone's "personal info" that was googleable or whois-able,
suspended for mistaken identity as troller,
tired of evasions and refusal to answer questions about TOS,
unsure which content they want to post is acceptable,
and the occasional "the software on my account is just fucked up and LJ doesn't know why."
I've been very happy at IJ.
My number one reason for leaving LJ? Permanent account SUSPENDED AND PERMABANNED! All because they suspected me (wrongly) of being a troll who's been bothering them for years. I have another account they don't seem to know about, so I can still keep in touch with my old friends list. I also know how to get around their restriction and could ABSOLUTELY get around their retarded "permaban." But guess what? I want nothing to do with them. Why should I put content on their site that might attract readers to a page with an ad that makes them money? I could go on for another few pages about the flagging system and their absurd censorship too. IF YOU DON'T LIKE SOMETHING, DON'T READ IT!
As for GJ--WTF? It seemed like a good site, but they don't seem to know what they're doing. It's up, it's down, 100 icons, 10 icons, 100 icons--no, wait, make that 10.
I think IJ is awesome. I love it here. My bestest friends from LJ have joined me and I'm making new friends every day.
Sadly most of the people I know have very dark blinkers on and are happily continuing over there.
I hope they have their fic saved somewhere.
I migrated in small steps, first I backed up my journal here and to GJ and remained on LJ, then I began to friends lock everything, except one dirty fanfic - but a lot of things caused me to finally give up posting in my journal at LJ completely.
I did not want to support that company anymore, so not renewing in October was my first priority. But eventually I thought about the adds and decided that I was still supporting them this way.
Those smug ljstaffers just lie to you in the face, coming up with more insulting and crappy posts (to lull in those who can't see beyond the surface) and impose more and more restraints.
Plus I hated it that they abused some important issue like child abuse / porn to push their own agenda which had nothing to do with caring about children. That was so sick and twisted, made me lose all respect for them to begin with and they certainly did not bother to win it back.
I guess they figured the broader base of their customers would be stupid and/or ignorant enought to stay no matter what they did or how many clever people would point out their bullshit.
I thought about GJ, but even before those recent screw ups I decided I liked it best here. When the nice 35 Dollar offer came, I bought a permanent account also I really could have lift with the basic features, but I felt like supporting.
And last, but not least I love to be "permanently insane" the whole theme of this site is just cool.