This should be, as far as I could find it, a fairly comprehensive list of statements representatives of Six Apart/LJ made regarding the recent purge of journals and communities. There is a mirror posted
here in
fandomtossed. If you have anything to add, please do so. [Last edit: 31/5/2007, 11:55 PM]
Barak Berkowitz, Chairman and CEO Six Apart:
http://news.com.com/Mass+deletion+sparks+LiveJournal+revolt/2100-1025_3-6187619.html - Cnet: Mass deletion sparks LiveJournal revolt by Declan McCullagh
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html - Well we really screwed this one up…
http://ataniell93.livejournal.com/818441.html?thread=7531785#t7531785 - the response to a post from
ataniell concerning her two suspended RPG journals
boot2thehead and
seventhsnakehttp://news.livejournal.com/99515.html - Journals being restored
[comments made in the official news thread (chronological order, beginning of thread for context, [*] marks comments more substantial than "agreed" or "totally"):]
page 1:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47778391#t47778391 (thread starts here:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47718231#t47718231)*http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47795799#t47795799 (thread starts here:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47723863#t47723863)
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47849047#t47849047 (thread starts here:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47725399#t47725399)*page 2:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47875671#t47875671 (thread starts here:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47731031#t47731031)
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47884631#t47884631 (thread starts here:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47731543#t47731543)*http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47935063#t47935063 (thread starts here:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47739479#t47739479)
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47964503#t47964503 (thread starts here:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47740759#t47740759)*http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47969623#t47969623 (thread starts here:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47742295#t47742295)
page 3:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47978839#t47978839 (thread starts here:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47742807#t47742807)
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=48007511#t48007511 (thread starts here:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47743063#t47743063)*http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=48048471#t48048471 (thread starts here:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47744599#t47744599)*http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=48059223#t48059223 (thread starts here:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47747415#t47747415)
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=48068951#t48068951 (thread starts here:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47749463#t47749463)
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=48075607#t48075607 (thread starts here:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47749975#t47749975)
page 4:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=48108631#t48108631 (thread starts here:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47751511#t47751511)*http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=48175959#t48175959 (thread starts here:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47760727#t47760727)*page 5:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=48188503#t48188503 (thread starts here:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47765847#t47765847)
I assume Mr. Berkowitz stopped commenting to get some rest at this point, as he said in his post.
Anil Dash, Vice President Six Apart:
http://www.metafilter.com/61636/livejournal-suspends-hundreds-of-accounts#1712054 - response to Metafilter post
http://meyerlemon.livejournal.com/1046833.html?thread=13495345#t13495345 - response to a post by
meyerlemon [conversation logs:]
http://www.greatestjournal.com/community/fandomtossed/19400.html - with GL-user rabidmaiden (IM)
http://www.greatestjournal.com/community/fandomtossed/18836.html - with GL-user daisy_chama (IM)
http://www.greatestjournal.com/community/fandomtossed/18580.html - with GL-user notjo (IM)
http://www.greatestjournal.com/community/fandomtossed/26855.html - with GL-user daisy_chama (email)
comments made in the official news thread:
http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html?thread=47715415#t47715415 contact with LJ-Abuse:
http://femmequixotic.livejournal.com/292480.html -
femmequixotic: concerning the suspension of
pornish_pixieshttp://ataniell93.livejournal.com/818441.html -
ataniell: concerning the suspension of her two RPG journals
boot2thehead and
seventhsnake (note:
http://ataniell93.livejournal.com/818441.html?thread=7531785#t7531785 - a response from Barak Berkowitz)
http://jamoche.livejournal.com/28973.html - response to a general query about the handling of complains/suspension by
jamochehttp://catrinella.livejournal.com/151812.html?thread=1223172#t1223172 -
electracine, co-mod of suspended
lolita07 (Spanish discussion community for Nabokov's "Lolita"): Dear LiveJournal user lolita07...
contact with LJ-Support and/or other representatives of Six Apart/LJ:
http://community.livejournal.com/lj_support/702580.html -
rahaelia in lj-support: Speaking for LiveJournal
http://news.livejournal.com/98733.html?thread=47443117#t47443117 - IM or phone log between
niicoly and unspecified LJ representative
http://brad.livejournal.com/2324293.html - Brad responds: "[...] actually, little-known fact: I don't work on LJ, and haven't in a while [...]"