All the Ooglie

[wolfrose]

For those who are leaving LJland for greener TOS pastures please know that I have a wordpress blog and most entries posted here are originally posted there.

I am disgusted by a few things 6A has done with this whole fandom fiasco, especially the mocking of paying LJ users by 6A employee burr86. I don't know how much I'll be using this service anymore. I'm not saying that I'm leaving all together, I'm not ready to do that. I am saying though that I am already using my personal website to blog so those who no longer wish to even give LJ their traffic may grab my rss feed and use a reader such as google reader to keep up with me if they so wish.

Comments

[thorswitch.livejournal.com]

I think I must have just missed what all is going on. I'm not involved in fandom stuff, so all I've heard is that several journals were suspended/deleted over questionable content. What happened, and how was that employee mocking people? I looked at his blog, but didn't see anything there that related to paying users....

[delusionalangel.livejournal.com]

I missed the employee bashing paid users...
But I know the fandom bans are continuing.
Though in fairness to LJ, the example a friend of mine posted a few days ago:
"Google: "tightly held" ponderosa121
WARNING: NSFW"

Kind of hard for me to fault LJ for banning content that is technically against US decency laws since it portrays child porn (albeit fictional character child porn).

[delusionalangel.livejournal.com]

oops, doesn't violate US decency laws if it's fictional, but does violate LJ TOS.

[thorswitch.livejournal.com]

I found the cached version of ponderosa121s page, but none of the lj-cut links worked. I did see that it was supposed to be a "NC-17" image of Harry and Snape, which tells me pretty much all I need to know. I have to I say I agree with you, I can't really fault them for banning content that depicts child porn, either.

Of course, I also tend to think that if you're making use of someone else's services and equipment, they do have the right to make rules as to what kind of use they deem to be acceptable - even if you're paying them. To the best of my knowledge, the TOS for LJ says they can delete material they deem unacceptable and ban users for posting it, and when we set up a journal there - be it free or paid - we're agreeing to that.

What I think would be a smart move would be for someone to start up their own fandom journal service - since the LJ software is open source, they could even use it so that people whose journals haven't been suspended or deleted can export their LJ entries and them import them into the new service. That way, the person running that service can determine what rules - if any - they want to have, and people who want to write kiddie porn slash whatever fic will have a place where they know they'll be welcome. With the outcry over LJs actions, I imagine there'd be a good customer base to start with, making it easier to get the equipment and system set up.

I don't mean to come off as bitchy - I just have trouble feeling a lot of sympathy for people who do something they know is going to be problematic (and from what I understand, wasn't the other big todo earlier this year about the same basic issue? So I'd say that people should have known that they were pushing things, shouldn't they?

I don't know... maybe I'm way off base, but given what little I know, that's how I'm thinking at the moment...

[lucifera-shadow.livejournal.com]

especially the mocking of paying LJ users by 6A employee burr86.

BUH?

[inannaliban.livejournal.com]

I knew there was a reason I set up my moonlitsheep.com. I have plenty of time to think about it though. My paid account doesn't expire till Jan 2008. I may start posting more often on moonlit rather than LJ though.

[seshen.livejournal.com]

I'm not jumping the LJ ship, just keeping an eye on things. This is still my favorite place to be. But as you know, I can be found elsewhere.