Comments | reasoned_speech: The Fat Lady Has Not Yet Sung

venivincere in reasoned_speech

The Fat Lady Has Not Yet Sung

Jun 02, 2007 11:26

If you think it's over, it isn't. stewardess tells us a very, very plausible reason for the purge.

The censorship is not over, and if LJ does go public, it will never be the haven it was in its days before SixApart.

cordelia_v suggests it might be time for fandom to migrate. I think so, too. What do you think? PLEASE pimp this poll far and wide!

Poll Fandom's New Home

fandom migration

Comments 59

dacnomaniac June 3 2007, 15:33:06 UTC

The people who are saying 'they can find us there, we're just putting it off', et cetera, seem to be forgetting that GJ, JournalFen, etc., unlike LJ (AFAIK) are not corporate-run. They are privately run. That is the entire reason this bullshit was anything other than a giant nothing.

roaring June 3 2007, 15:51:22 UTC

I hate all the other journals, but I guess GJ is the best. Still, I really wouldn't want to move there if I had a choice.

But I am really loving the idea of a fandom journal place. I think we could customize it to our needs a lot better than LJ, anyway, maybe have another community system edited to be more RP-friendly and then a regular one and I dunno I just woke up. :[

Either way, I keep seeing people talking about wanting this fandom journal... I would really like to be in on it if any plans arose. At the very least I could make pretty graphics for it. Hahaha. Because honestly one of my top reasons for not liking GJ is because the layout is so, so ugly.

caitirin June 3 2007, 16:24:38 UTC

I agree with you here. GJ also has always been SO slow to load when I've been on it.

sockren June 3 2007, 17:09:17 UTC

insanejournal.com!!!!

roaring June 3 2007, 17:21:27 UTC

I hate insanejournal more than GJ. ):

claireyfairy1 June 3 2007, 16:34:05 UTC

Just one point on GJ - my friend had her account permanently suspended for posting an explicit picture that was not friends locked. It took just 10 seconds or so, in the time it took her to realise her mistake, to be reported. They have never allowed her to retrieve her journal or even back up her previous entries.

Sooooo, the most important thing is for fandom to know what they're moving to. A mass migration to GJ would achieve nothing good since they don't protect users at all. This requires much more research I think.

sockren June 3 2007, 17:07:44 UTC

insanejournal.com

Same engine. Free accounts. Pimpin!

sockren June 3 2007, 17:08:46 UTC

InsaneJournal.com's censorship policy:

We understand why a lot of you are coming over here, and we do not believe in censorship beyond the letter of the law. We will not remove any content from the site unless we receive an official DMCA take down notice or are contacted by an offical legal agency notifying us of illegal activity.

venivincere June 3 2007, 17:33:31 UTC

Oh, wow. Is that in their TOS?

venivincere June 3 2007, 17:39:24 UTC

Checked it out -- they also have a 100 friends limit for Free Accounts and a 4 minute load time for their Free Account friends page. http://www.insanejournal.com/paidaccounts/

lilai June 3 2007, 20:27:41 UTC

As people already point out stewardess post is just conjecture, and, as credible as it sounds, we shouldn't forget it.

For that, and for plenty other reason, I think there is no reason for fandom migration yet.

I'll just say this : Yes, Lj (and 6A and all) lose our trust and they are not to regain it so soon. But I think (and I may be naive) that everyone deserve an other chance.
We shouldn't run away because of the fear we feel now.
(Also, I think they won't bother about kicking fandom out, because they are clever enough to know how many we are, even without fandom_counts)

Sorry if it's not very clear, english isn't my native language, ask if you want me to precise stuff.