Comments | alina_kalime: Flounce, exile, etc!

alina_kalime

Flounce, exile, etc!

Dec 08, 2007 10:39

I have exiled myself to InsaneJournal.

I'll still be reading, but I'm no longer posting here until my confidence in the site is restored.

searching for spice girls, loldrama, lj fails the reference librarian test, goodbye cruel eljay, wasting tags is fun, adult content my ass, farewell post, flounce

Comments 4

the_spin December 8 2007, 18:44:14 UTC

The tags on this post are made of win, girl.

alina_kalime December 8 2007, 22:24:41 UTC

Thanks! ^^

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alina_kalime December 8 2007, 22:24:07 UTC

I'll try to explain, but I'm not very good at explaining things. Basically, I have 3 big reasons:

1) I dislike the adult content flagging system, which you may be familiar with if you've seen the "adult content inc!" lj-cuts. I just find it annoying, and have a personal beef with revealing my birthdate. I know I could fake it, but then I'd probably forget it, which could lead to issues later. XD

2) 6A sold LJ to SUP, the Russian company that's been fielding some of the Russian users. I don't like what I've read about SUP's investors or how it's acted so far with the Russian userbase. I particularly didn't like the situation mentioned in that link where an SUP rep logged into someone's account without explicit permission, but most of what I read did not impress me.

I can't find anything positive about the company. (If anyone does, link me?)

3) The clincher for me was the new interest filter issue, which, aside from being blatant censorship in my opinion, has been so badly programmed that you can't search for innocuous things like ( ... )

alina_kalime December 8 2007, 22:24:26 UTC

And thanks for the compliments on the tags. :)