I don't know how many LJ Staff have read A Group is it's Own Worst Enemy by Clay Shirky, but it's absolutely fascinating. Here are a few snippets:

People who work on social software are closer in spirit to economists and political scientists than they are to people making compilers. They both look like programming, but when you're dealing with ( Read more... )

Following up on my last post, we've just released our abuse policies for public consumption.

There is a big disclaimer attached to the page that I'll repeat here:
All material on this page is currently Draft quality and is subject to change at any time. The LiveJournal Terms of Service is always the definitive guide to site policies; this material ( Read more... )

[...] It’s very easy to start a blog. Web sites such as www.blogger.com, www.motime.com and www.xanga.com offer easy - and free - step-by-step instructions on how to make one ( Read more... )

As Brad mentioned in his last post here, we're working alongside our abuse team to revise abuse policies (the criteria the abuse team uses to determine violations). Our goal is to have policies that allow the most freedom of speech and fair use, while still assuring LiveJournal's safety and legal liability ( Read more... )

I keep seeing references to my great misunderstood quote being used as some sort of argument that the LJ Abuse team is incompetent.

Let me clear this up: The LJ Abuse team works their asses off, and they're very consistent.

The problem boils down to:

• I don't talk with the abuse team often enough, but they try to do what they think I'd want.
• More ( Read more... )

By now I'm sure some of you have seen this post where the abuse_lj_abuse crew pick up on a choice quote of mine and runs with it. This, of course, has pissed off the LJ Abuse team, who doesn't think I respect them or their work.

What I said, for the record, was:We're actually working on a system where people who are suspended can make their cases public, ( Read more... )

Recently I've been seeing another member of LJ asking a question about the Live Journal copyright policy, specifically LJA's interpretation of copyright law. The community bestcomment was suspended, supposedly this was the official reason:
"Dear LiveJournal user ( Read more... )

Please forgive me if this is the incorrect place to post this; it seemed to me like an appropriate place, but if I'm wrong, our Moderator will kindly let me know.

The following meme appears to be spreading. (I got it from break_the_chain who got it from kamara on the LJ Support team, who got it from thebubba and rahaeli, also on LJ Support, and so on.) It seems to be balanced, ( Read more... )

When I first started buying a paid account on LJ (many many names ago), one of my main motivations was the fact that I could customize my journal with pretty layouts since I'm into web design.......I was under the impression that customization was limited for free accounts, but I am beginning to wonder if LJ might actually be losing money allowing ( Read more... )

LiveJournal is currently letting a massive source of revenue go untapped -- the sale of permanent accounts. I've heard that bradfitz doesn't like selling permanent accounts, for some reason, and while it may seem to (eventually) start sapping money from the paid userbase, it seems that not exploiting this resource isn't the wisest of ideas ( Read more... )