Boldly going on with Strikethrough

[salinea]

Am I the only one to find the whole burr87 sub-set of the whole Boldthrough kerfuffle deeply hilarious? I mean, for one, efw itself is obviously a nasty-funny, Fandom_Wank-like community that's rather hilarious and the mocking - while insensitive, misrepresenting & unprofessionnal - isn't extremely off the mark. And srlsly I seem to remember than during Part 1 of this LJ wank Fandom was the one insisting that burr87 came back to be a spokesperson. Maybe that's why he hates us. Maybe he really didn't like this job. XDDD


For something completely different, there's a fascinating post from metafandom full of graphs about how LiveJournal is shrinking.


Oh, lastly, I made myself a JournalFen account and I should transfer my fanfics overthere. It's not perfect in terms of managements but I think that right now it's the one Journal I can actually trust a little bit not to go witchhunting happy.

Ultimately, I might keep on this journal for personnal life purpose but I'll probably put all fandom content somewhere else.

ETA : alighiera has just posted about the LJ Boldthrough story being on big German newspaper Der Spielgel. Woaw O_O;;

Comments

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

Or because they really do not give a shit about customers. Their general attitude is, "if you have to ask what is not allowed, then you don't deserve to be here."

I wish they had TOS'ed someone for threatening the president, instead. That would have been very exciting, don't you think? Because a lot of people dislike our president and might say things about him, and no one would be confused about that the way they are about dirty cartoons of Harry Potter characters. (The "threatening the president" issue was one that burr86 mentioned in his clever little disquisition clarifying the terms of service.

So if I say "oh FUCK GEORGE BUSH WITH NO LUBE!" for example, and they TOS'ed me for it, do you think that LJ would have any more users?

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Should I mention that in my lovely country, home of Human Rights, a 19 years old guy just landed himself 3 monthes of jail for insulting our president?

Also "oh FUCK GEORGE BUSH WITH NO LUBE!" squicks me way more than Snarry. Ewww.

LJ's already losing users, it seems. This latter trend won't help. Maybe that's why they care so little about us, because they can't wait to sell the baby to someone else. Honestly most of it makes no sense to me.

[darksumomo.livejournal.com]

Threatening the President and getting TOSsed from LJ, particularly if it were accompanied by a visit from the Secret Service, would get my attention. I give out awards for that.

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

Do you think the Secret Service would threaten people for things that LJ would TOS you for, though? Part of the issue with the child pron thing has been that LJ has no clue about what's really considered child pornography or even obscenity. I don't think it's a real threat to the president if I say something like, "though I am a pacifist and non-violent, I wish I could inflict some measure of the pain and suffering Bush has caused other people on his physical person." Is it?

Uh oh.

[icemannorth.livejournal.com]

Name in book!