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If you are planning on striking tomorrow, more power to you. I most likely will not, simply because (and this may sound really egotistical, so I apologize in advance) I really don't care. I have a paid account, and if they get to a point where I feel they are impinging on what I want to post on my account, I will move to a Wordpress blog.
Please don't hate mail my comments. I'm all about exercising your freedom - I just ask that you respect me exercising mine.
Please don't hate mail my comments. I'm all about exercising your freedom - I just ask that you respect me exercising mine.
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:D
no hate here
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Ultimately, I use LJ as a platform for my online community. If the majority of my community (meaning the people I follow on LJ), changed platforms, then I'd move with them. My friends are more important to me than the platform.
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*shakes head*
Honestly, just dumb. Sorry, but it is. LJ has to make the money to take care of the servers everything is hosted on, and I seriously doubt the paid accounts even cover the basic accounts, so it makes sense to drop them and have advertising on the "free" accounts to help defray the costs.
Just...ug. :P
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LJ is a business and, as such, we have to abide by their rules. We're playing in THEIR playground.
Those who don't like it can take their toys and go play somewhere else. (As many have done.)
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Well, I've moved away long ago and only use my account to comment on other LJs. Mostly because of the crappy software and the shaky copyright policy.
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But honestly, you get what you pay for.
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However, the original migration to IJ was because of all the fandom/porn kerfluffle and not ads.
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Does that make more sense?
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There's a strike?
*blink*
There's a problem?
*blink* *blink*
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Are you free tomorrow night?
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Also, I think the fact that interests were censored riled people up and after that was corrected, they still wanted a reason to complain.
People complain a lot, don't you think?
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I think this is a lot of that. Nonny mentioned an interview in response to my post about this, but, when you look at the posted reasons for the strike, the interview doesn't come into play:
1. Restore basic accounts for new account creation.
2. Inform users before any change to the site that affects how we use the site or demands on our resources.
3. Run change proposals by the Advisory Board and take their advice into account before implementation of any change.
4. Homophobia, misogyny, and racism must not be a part of the decision making processes about appropriate content of the site, including what user interests are deemed appropriate.
Take #4 out of the picture, and it's all about ad-free accounts and WHINE we should approve that first! Sorry, the user isn't running th business. and, if given the option, the user will take free and ad-free every time. Yes?
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Oh, I left you a message on your phone yesterday. I'll try to see you in chat, or something. (Basically I'm hoping that Argus gets home before 5 on Tuesdays so I can steal a ride from him to a calligraphy class)
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And if I weren't too lazy to set up a new account and move my f-list, I'd have deleted my journal entirely. So I only deleted some posts.
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It would have been nice if they'd said something ahead of time though.
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Are things for free good? sure. but people expect an awful lot nowadays. having been in the whole shebang for years.. I have wathced ALL the major services get bought out and change. from three in carnation prior to yahoo.. to the lj.... to other servers. Very little can afford to be "free", and people do not like to stop and think there is really no true "free".
all these other "free" services will eventually, even if slowly, go the way of all the others. mark my words.
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How's your grandmother doing? Email me/call me this weekend?
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