OOC Admin: VERY IMPORTANT
crossposted to desolate_winds, dw_ooc, and citizen_brandon
LJ is cracking down on RPG journals.
I'm copying this from a friend who copied this into a comment in another friend's journal.
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Here's what's been showing up on friends lists:
LJ Abuse has started suspending celebrity journals in the last few days. Please make sure your disclaimers are set up. They will not give any journals back once they are suspended.
APPROPRIATE DISCLAIMER means both, a disclaimer or link to an outside disclaimer on every entry AND a statement in the user information that the journal is not maintained by or connected with the real celebrity. I recommend you put both up --- make them big, fat and obvious. Also, use the disclaimer site as your website link. Just in case. DO NOT put something cute in the same color as your journal. It's not the MBP moderating team, it's LJ Abuse you're dealing with in this case. We CANNOT DO ANYTHING for you or your character once you get suspended. We also cannot promise anything if you DO have the disclaimer up.
We are in no position to bitch and moan to LJ Abuse: what we do in this game is inherently a breach of user agreement, and they've made this fact very clear to us. All we can do is to tell people "put up your disclaimers," even if that's not necessarily going to help in any given way. DO NOT engage in a fight with them, please, nor report any celebrity journals to them, or else they might as well suspend all the celebrity impersonation journals at once. Don't make the mistake of thinking that they won't throw us out because they're interested in our money. There are enough "civilian" journals out there that are paid accounts and whose owners will pay for additional icons. They don't need us, we are just tolerated as long as we don't do anything dumb.
Please TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS! I know most communities don't like cross-posting, but I think this is important enough to get posted in every community you are a member of (just make sure nobody else has posted there already)!
LJ is cracking down on RPG journals.
I'm copying this from a friend who copied this into a comment in another friend's journal.
......
Here's what's been showing up on friends lists:
LJ Abuse has started suspending celebrity journals in the last few days. Please make sure your disclaimers are set up. They will not give any journals back once they are suspended.
APPROPRIATE DISCLAIMER means both, a disclaimer or link to an outside disclaimer on every entry AND a statement in the user information that the journal is not maintained by or connected with the real celebrity. I recommend you put both up --- make them big, fat and obvious. Also, use the disclaimer site as your website link. Just in case. DO NOT put something cute in the same color as your journal. It's not the MBP moderating team, it's LJ Abuse you're dealing with in this case. We CANNOT DO ANYTHING for you or your character once you get suspended. We also cannot promise anything if you DO have the disclaimer up.
We are in no position to bitch and moan to LJ Abuse: what we do in this game is inherently a breach of user agreement, and they've made this fact very clear to us. All we can do is to tell people "put up your disclaimers," even if that's not necessarily going to help in any given way. DO NOT engage in a fight with them, please, nor report any celebrity journals to them, or else they might as well suspend all the celebrity impersonation journals at once. Don't make the mistake of thinking that they won't throw us out because they're interested in our money. There are enough "civilian" journals out there that are paid accounts and whose owners will pay for additional icons. They don't need us, we are just tolerated as long as we don't do anything dumb.
Please TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS! I know most communities don't like cross-posting, but I think this is important enough to get posted in every community you are a member of (just make sure nobody else has posted there already)!