The driving revenue script is designed to add our affiliate ID to any outbound link that doesn't have one. This should not affect anyone, and is a transparent process. The last time we tried this the process did not have enough testing. We believe it's been thoroughly tested and works correctly now. If it's causing some sort of a problem, please open a support ticket so we can notify our engineers.
It has something to do with them seeing many dollar signs. The people who own LJ see them ("$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$") dancing before their eyes night and day, in their dreams, in their thoughts, on paper, online, on TV, and so they move to the crack-like draw of those unstoppable visions of piles of cold, hard cash. That's all.
Why they're being so secretive about it? They figure it's so subtly done no one will ever notice unless they tell us. They don't want "anyone"* getting mad, since they don't want to lose any content or goodwill that they can monetize, so they keep mum.
*For the record, the two dozen or so of us who have lost our cool over it so far don't count as "anyone". We are perfectly invisible both to LJ staff, and to LJ users at large. Isn't it neat how that works? It's like I'm not even here writing this comment, you know? I don't officially exist, and neither do any other "troublemakers".Mind you, I'm sorry to say I wouldn't mind them pulling this JavaScript redirect stuff and maybe a lot worse on only the free users. I
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Yeah, that's exactly what did it for me, too. I was cool until the moment I learned of it (in the comments to an LJ News post, of all places, since LJ refuses to officially discuss it anywhere on the site)...then I was just shaking my head like, "wtf?". I had no plans to leave LJ - in fact, I was pretty satisfied with how things were, overall - until that moment, but once I started reading through those comments, and testing the Javascript on my journals to see what it did (just as advertised) I knew I'd be leaving as soon as I could. I guess I have this almost subconscious underlying feeling that LJ isn't good enough for me, anyway, so maybe that's what drove me on. It's strange how those things work out.
We believe it's been thoroughly tested and works correctly now. It works? Then why does LJ - and my paid account - lag every time I click or right-click a link or even in the middle of the page?
This counter-jab could use some work--it has two big weak spots:
* service running smoothly -- This part of the comparison makes it seem like LiveJournal has been running smoothly, but it hasn't lately. It doesn't help that the links script itself has been giving people lag while browsing when they try to click on links, and thus decreases the smoothness of running for some people. So, maybe focus away from running smoothly, and more on the availability of capital and paid staff to solve the hard problems that come from actually having a large userbase--that's something DW can't match right now. It helps that the link script is relatively easy for a viewer to escape.
* organize "donation drives" -- The airquotes here make it seem like donation drive is the dubious terminology used by Dreamwidth, but DW used the term "fundraiser" and is talking about encouraging people to buy services (or points that can be converted to paid services), which are technically not donations. In order to bolster up this portion, you need to put the "
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Amazing that DW looking to make any money to run their operation makes you think of them as "unstable" but when LJ takes steps like it has been taking as discussed in this thread to basically "force" money out of our journals you have no problem with that. That doesn't look desperate or anything. Right. OK. Also, I (anti-aol) was on a great server compared to the free users and and still I experienced anything but smooth service over the last four years, so, lots of downtime - I get emailed reports from RoyalPingdom on when anti-aol goes down and I have 5 reports from last week alone - down 5 times, about 10-15 minutes each time. In ONE day alone. And yeah, I know, pics or it didn't happen? For real. Pics, if you like, because it did happen. But thanks for sharing!
I, however, can and want to only spend so much on one type of online activity, so I really prefer link hijacking and ads for freeloading users (i.e. ways that don't reach into my pocket).
See, that's exactly why I don't care if LJ hijacks your free journals or not, as I stated myself in an earlier comment. Serves you right for not wanting to help support LJ. They have got to make money somehow. And they have every right to.Free users overwhelmingly have this "you owe us the stars moon and sun" attitude and in all honesty, I like seeing it punished accordingly. Maybe I'm a bit of a sadist in that sense, but I supported the site all along and I'm not sorry I did. I'm only sorry to see that LJ fucked me in spite of that. Free users? Whatever
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You're taking it all out of context, dear little sunflower. DW ran low in the war chest only because they had to stop accepting PayPal payments months ago over some nanny group that went to war with them over them supposedly hosting porn on the site. I think the exact accusation was child porn. It was unfounded, if I recall correctly, but either way, PayPal didn't want to hear that. They made a bunch of demands that DW only host kiddy-safe content so DW politely (extreme paraphrase warning) told them, more or less, to blow off. In the meantime, DW had no payment processing system, so they went *several months* unable to collect payments from any users at all, except by cash or check. Are you happy now? Jesus Christ.
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Why they're being so secretive about it? They figure it's so subtly done no one will ever notice unless they tell us. They don't want "anyone"* getting mad, since they don't want to lose any content or goodwill that they can monetize, so they keep mum.
*For the record, the two dozen or so of us who have lost our cool over it so far don't count as "anyone". We are perfectly invisible both to LJ staff, and to LJ users at large. Isn't it neat how that works? It's like I'm not even here writing this comment, you know? I don't officially exist, and neither do any other "troublemakers".Mind you, I'm sorry to say I wouldn't mind them pulling this JavaScript redirect stuff and maybe a lot worse on only the free users. I ( ... )
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It works? Then why does LJ - and my paid account - lag every time I click or right-click a link or even in the middle of the page?
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I think you mean anything in English.
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* service running smoothly -- This part of the comparison makes it seem like LiveJournal has been running smoothly, but it hasn't lately. It doesn't help that the links script itself has been giving people lag while browsing when they try to click on links, and thus decreases the smoothness of running for some people. So, maybe focus away from running smoothly, and more on the availability of capital and paid staff to solve the hard problems that come from actually having a large userbase--that's something DW can't match right now. It helps that the link script is relatively easy for a viewer to escape.
* organize "donation drives" -- The airquotes here make it seem like donation drive is the dubious terminology used by Dreamwidth, but DW used the term "fundraiser" and is talking about encouraging people to buy services (or points that can be converted to paid services), which are technically not donations. In order to bolster up this portion, you need to put the " ( ... )
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See, that's exactly why I don't care if LJ hijacks your free journals or not, as I stated myself in an earlier comment. Serves you right for not wanting to help support LJ. They have got to make money somehow. And they have every right to.Free users overwhelmingly have this "you owe us the stars moon and sun" attitude and in all honesty, I like seeing it punished accordingly. Maybe I'm a bit of a sadist in that sense, but I supported the site all along and I'm not sorry I did. I'm only sorry to see that LJ fucked me in spite of that. Free users? Whatever ( ... )
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