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[aryshtin]

I just read that here on iconrants:

Well apparently according to one post I saw we're supposed to be striking right now. See it's supposed to have started at 8pm Eastern time on THURSDAY because that's when it was Midnight GMT when the strike was supposed to start. So they failed already. No one knew when it was supposed to start. No one told other people

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[t_eyla]

Wow, I feel like Don Quixote battling wind mills defending this strike.

Since I'm posting right now, you might gather that I'm not participating. However, I wished people would stop pointing and laughing at the people who organized this. I'm c&p'ing a comment I left in another journal last night, because I'm too lazy to type it all out again:

I think the basic idea of a strike is not bad because striking is a generally accepted way of saying UR DOIN IT RONG. However, for it to have any effect, it would have to be for at least a week, and it would have to be promoted in a way that would make at least most of the highly active users participate

[aryshtin]

Next time, I listen to the small little voice in my head that keeps telling me to stay out of things. ;-)

However, for it to have any effect, it would have to be for at least a week, and it would have to be promoted in a way that would make at least most of the highly active users participate.

Exactly. So why should I not "point and laugh" (which was by all means not my intention at all) at a badly organized sort of strike? This only tells me that after all, the issue is not THAT important.

f it has to be about anything specific, I'd make it about the censoring of interests from the Most Popular Interest page.Again, I second that. But the whole interest page thing seemed to appear more on a side note (as far as I have seen it, I'm not reading all the comms dealing with this) and people seemed to be primarily concerned about the whole ads thing. Which also makes it not easier, because if some people are striking because of ads and others are striking because of censoring, how will it have any effect or be taken seriously? If there's

[t_eyla]

This only tells me that after all, the issue is not THAT important.
Well, but NOTHING seems to be important anymore to anyone. You know about all the shit that's been going down with the education budget cuts and then the tuition fees. There was one demonstration, which turned into a huge party, but aside from that, NOTHING. If people can't even get off their asses to demonstrate to get better education, I'm not fucking surprised they're doing nothing about this. Every attempt to do something, like the strike, will not be ridiculed by me, because at least those people are trying, while everyone else is just sitting there picking their noses and laughing at them.

If there's going be an effective stirke, IMO people should at least be able to agree on a certain aim.It doesn't matter why you are striking. The whole point of the strike is to tell LJ that they're doing it wrong. Yes, the basic accounts thing was the trigger, but I don't think that the LJ userbase would have reacted this strongly if it had been the first time LJ screwed up

[aryshtin]

I'm sorry if I offended you.

No, you didn't. It's a good thing that you're standing up for the things that are important to you. And I know that my views on issues like that and in parts also fandom are pessimistic and not promotable... And I'm sorry for that.

Well, but NOTHING seems to be important anymore to anyone.

That seems to be a general problem of our time.

Oh, so copping out and turning tail is the only way to go. That's a bit pessimistic, don't you think?

Maybe it is, but sadly, in my experience, it's the only thing that works.

but there are many people to whom fandom is more than just a hobby.

I'm sorry, I keep not considering that. Because for me, LJ and fandom is "just" a hobby.
And there's the reason fandom cares, they actually have something to lose if lj fucks up. But, concerning fandom and the comm no_lj_ads, before today I didn't even know it existed, and I'm not sure why.

And what else can we LJ users do than write letters and emails of complaints, or strike? We can hardly organize a demonstration, considering

[artphilia]

Weißt du, Elisi, mich nervt an dieser Sache vor allem, dass sie die User durch die Ads/Spyware beobachten. Mir persönlich ist es scheißegal, ob ich noch einen Basic Account haben kann oder nicht, da ich für meinen bezahle und ansonsten (wegen zusätzlicher Features) eh den Plus Account benutze. ABER ich MAG ES NICHT überwacht zu werden. Es geht die Maintainer von LJ einen scheißdreck an, was ich runterlade, wo ich herumsurfe und was ich sonst noch so mache. Deshalb habe ich den Streik versucht zu unterstützen, auch wenn es in deinen Augen lächerlich erscheinen mag. Mich kotzt diese Überwachungspolitik einfach tierisch an und das will ich mir nicht gefallen lassen.