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my thoughts on LJ's asshattery
My take on the current LJ situation:
I would desperately like to see fandom move to its own playground, where it's safe from persecution and the cowardly actions of corporate cocksuckers. However, I don't believe there is currently a journal system which possesses both the inclination to allow fandom its freedom and the infrastructure to support a mass exodus from fandom. Greatestjournal deletes "inactive" accounts and usericons. Insanejournal is ad-supported. Journalfen is 18+, invite-only (or paid) and apparently has server issues. Scribblit.com - I'm a beta tester there and so far I love the sense of community, but as to whether this will become the service fandom needs, only time will tell - and it's got a long way to go.
So for the time being, I'm staying put - until either a critical mass of my LJfriends move to another service or services, or until I get kickbanned from LJ myself. However, I will not pay Livejournal ONE SINGLE CENT for any service, nor will I use their "sponsored" adware service, and if they add advertisements to the Basic level, I will actually go to the trouble of getting ad-blocking software so that their ads are never loaded, thus depriving them of my pageviews. In no way will I add one more cent or fraction of a cent to Livejournal's revenue. They have absolutely no care or concern for the opinions of their paying customers - so I refuse to be a paying customer. That is all.
Of course, this is all subject to change, depending on what asshattery LJ performs next. Any company stupid enough to repeat the same actions that got them lambasted only a couple of months earlier and expect their userbase not to notice is bound to repeat their idiocy again...
I would desperately like to see fandom move to its own playground, where it's safe from persecution and the cowardly actions of corporate cocksuckers. However, I don't believe there is currently a journal system which possesses both the inclination to allow fandom its freedom and the infrastructure to support a mass exodus from fandom. Greatestjournal deletes "inactive" accounts and usericons. Insanejournal is ad-supported. Journalfen is 18+, invite-only (or paid) and apparently has server issues. Scribblit.com - I'm a beta tester there and so far I love the sense of community, but as to whether this will become the service fandom needs, only time will tell - and it's got a long way to go.
So for the time being, I'm staying put - until either a critical mass of my LJfriends move to another service or services, or until I get kickbanned from LJ myself. However, I will not pay Livejournal ONE SINGLE CENT for any service, nor will I use their "sponsored" adware service, and if they add advertisements to the Basic level, I will actually go to the trouble of getting ad-blocking software so that their ads are never loaded, thus depriving them of my pageviews. In no way will I add one more cent or fraction of a cent to Livejournal's revenue. They have absolutely no care or concern for the opinions of their paying customers - so I refuse to be a paying customer. That is all.
Of course, this is all subject to change, depending on what asshattery LJ performs next. Any company stupid enough to repeat the same actions that got them lambasted only a couple of months earlier and expect their userbase not to notice is bound to repeat their idiocy again...