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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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Posted on Jun. 20th, 2007 at 01:42 am | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]lostangelssong

Actually, someone pointed out either on the news post or the lj_biz post (and I can't remember which one, because it was rather late when I was skimming through them last night) that this wouldn't be the first time that SA/LJ has offered to give the users a chance to give their input and then not listened.

It came up when sponsored accounts were introduced and when SA/LJ decided that people couldn't have pictures of nipples, or breastfeeding as their default user icon. Both times they asked for feedback, and both times, the response they got from the users was overwhelmingly negative. And they did it anyway.

I guess by giving us something today they'll give the illusion of giving people a chance to give their input, and then just do whatever the hell they want anyway.
Posted on Jun. 20th, 2007 08:41 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply