my recession stressed 2 cents (made public by request)

[crafting_change]

I have a lot of friends doing the 'LJ Strike' now, and while I will respect their wishes and not comment/view their journals, I have some thoughts/concerns to untangle

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[spiderdust]

Might I recommend that this be one of your rare public posts? I think it would be worthwhile for a lot of people to see it.

[crafting_change]

done and done, commenting is really extremely limited but it'll be public for a while.

[peregrin8]

This is very good solid analysis.

And that is scary about the vigil! Is the friend who was shot in the leg going to be OK?

[crafting_change]

We haven't heard about the friend - hell - we didn't hear what happened to the brother till 3 days later (he had stitches and 2 black eyes and a very frightened son).

[static_hiss]

Good points, here.

Personally I think a longer "blackout" period would be needed. One day isn't much, especially since most LJ'ers don't seem to know about the protest and are still posting anyway. But if it went on for a whole week (or longer) more people might catch on and it might actually get some higher-up's attention. As it is right now, I can't help but think of the posting strike as a hissy-fit, like a child threatening to hold their breath until they pass out. Just not posting for one day isn't hard, and LJ'ers who are participating aren't showing they're willing to really work for it. But then, that's a very common perception about activism, these days. I used to think that way, when I was 18, I thought vegetarianism was activism, I thought showing up to an anti-war protest was "activism".

I think this: Homophobia, misogyny, and racism must not be a part of the decision making processes about appropriate content of the site, including what user interests are deemed appropriate. is referring to the removal of certain

[crafting_change]

Essentially they always say, "The community maintainer can ban them but we don't see any breaking of the TOS" and that is a complete cop-out. What it says is, "You can ban bigots from your community but they're still welcome on LJ."My LJ is obviously mostly FO, and I mod one of the most heavily moderated and still flame-rific communities and I understand the frustration

[buscemi]

People bring guns to a vigil? WTF is wrong with them? I'm sorry your BIL and friend got hurt. :( (hug*

As for LJ, I don't really get the inaction = action stuff, either. And I also think the ones who complain about the basic accounts being taken away don't realize how much LJ has changed and grown over the years. While there have been times that I've disagreed with the actions of the LJ staff, I still like it better than any other "social" website out there. :)

[crafting_change]

exactly, I love the LJ format, but I have seen so much change (just as I've seen change at all of the 'brick and mortar' establishments I visit.

[crafting_change]

...and thank you

[crafting_change]

I just don't care. and the fact that so much of this is a continuation of the grudges of the fanfic community, who get on my nerves more than I even like to admit, isn't really buying them any ground.
is it bad that I both chuckled and agreed.

I wonder if this is a kind of 'history of the internet thing' before I had LJ, I kept up a blog on my yahoo sponsored webpage which had ads. Now I know that myspace does ads, but because the nature of the blog has evolved the expectation has changed, but the reverting back to ads for free service doesn't surprise me -but maybe some of that is my age and history with blogging?

but there is no community that really offers me what LJ does. and I'm willing to pay for it, and if I can't pay, I'm willing to ignore google ads for it. I don't think that's so much to ask.
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if anything, I think anyone who's protesting the popular interests issue or the more legit complaints of the strikethrough debacle should actively avoid being associated with this strike, because when it's over they're gonna