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LiveJournal Strike!

  • Mar. 18th, 2008 at 7:10 PM
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For those of you who don't already know, there has been a strike scheduled for Friday, March 21st, 2008, during which we hope to have many members of LiveJournal provide LJ with absolutely no content for twenty-four hours. This means no posting and no commenting. If you post elsewhere and have it set up to be posted through a feed on LiveJournal, don't do it. Stay away from LiveJournal for twenty-four hours. That can't be too hard, can it? I know some of you are probably quite active on LiveJournal and will find it hard to stay away for an entire day, just as I will, but this is something that needs to be done, to show the people running LiveJournal that we're watching the changes they are making, that we're paying attention, that we're discontent, and that we want to be heard and taken in to consideration. We are not simply users who can be tossed to the side and ignored. We are the people who make up LiveJournal. Without us, without the content we create, without our words, our voices, our creativity, our participation, there would be no LiveJournal. This is a fact, and it needs to be realized and understood and then taken in to consideration when making decisions regarding the way that LiveJournal is run. The strike is only a few days away, so there isn't all too much time to prepare. While this is unfortunate, it isn't enough to keep this strike from taking place. It will take place, the second it is meant to, and it would be best to have as many people take part as possible. Please, spread the word. Spread it fast. There are only a few days to organize this. If you find that you care about LiveJournal or care about the people you interact with on LiveJournal or simply want it to remain a place where you can entertain yourself without constant censorship and money-hungry practices being thrown in without the consideration of those who use the service, act now. If you don't wish to spread the word, that is fine, but please: refrain from using LiveJournal on Friday, March 21st. Do something else for a change. It's for a good cause. (:

For background on this strike and why it is being held, please read the following posts:
http://beckyzoole.livejournal.com/394838.html
http://beckyzoole.livejournal.com/395310.html

To find out exactly when the strike begins and ends, depending on where you are located, please see this:
http://beckyzoole.livejournal.com/395125.html

What's this about?

* It's about free and ad-free LiveJournal accounts being abolished for new members, ignoring the advice from the newly-formed Advisory Board.
* It's about LJ staff trying to sneak this decision in under the radar, and when people found out, telling the users it was done 'to make the signup process less confusing'.
* It's about LJ staff failing to apologize for trying to hide the facts from view and for lying about the actual reasons for their actions.
* And finally, it's about the latest decision to hide certain user interests from the list of Most Popular Interests, some of them being fanfiction, bisexuality, sex and depression. This decision was not announced or explained in any way. Users found out for themselves.

Comments

(Anonymous) wrote:
Mar. 19th, 2008 01:18 pm (UTC)
Giving up on LJ
I have given up on LiveJournal long ago. Too much trash and now with the paid account, it's just not worth it.

Right now I'm switching to www.yousaytoo.com - it's basically the same, but with flash games and a twitter clone.

But instead of ripping you off for money, they actually pay you to hangout there. Made like $10 yesterday for posting about crap and uploading games.
[info]steve_tales wrote:
Mar. 19th, 2008 10:12 pm (UTC)
I'm in!
[info]riseorbleed wrote:
Mar. 20th, 2008 09:38 pm (UTC)
I'm doubtful that the management will care that X number of people aren't posting for a day. A longer period of time might be more effective. We can't exactly do the opposite and flood the site with dummy text posts as it would probably constitute an illegal DDOS attack.

What about the following form of protest: For one week, all involved will only post about their blogs on other websites. Everyone will change their interests to nothing but "fanfiction, bisexuality, sex and depression." So for a week, their statistical analyses can only collect that people are interested in NOTHING and are talking about nothing but their blogs on other websites. Think that would get their attention?
[info]starbuck_a_dale wrote:
Mar. 22nd, 2008 11:12 am (UTC)
Actually I think that's better! Not to say the strike's a bad idea or nowt, but that really works in my head.
[info]flavour_of_mind wrote:
Apr. 18th, 2008 05:25 am (UTC)
That makes a lot more sense to my mind, but, unfortunately, I think it might be harder to get people to participate in. However even if there are only, say, 50 people, it could screw up statistics considerably.
[info]collpepper wrote:
Mar. 21st, 2008 02:32 am (UTC)
May I copy and paste your "What's this about?" part of your post to someone who asked what the strike is all about?
[info]whorylori wrote:
Mar. 21st, 2008 02:43 am (UTC)

Strike cancelled.


Good Friday Post-a-thon.
[info]undergreenlight wrote:
Mar. 21st, 2008 04:08 am (UTC)
This is why everyone should just go to blogger. Everyone changed email from Yahoo and Hotmail to free Gmail accounts. Go to Blogger. Much better.
[info]gmsashera wrote:
Mar. 21st, 2008 05:06 am (UTC)
Dude,

What the hell is wrong with capitalism? You don't like LJ go elsewhere. Heck start your own blog or buy your own domain Oh wait those would cost you money. Are we going to have a gas strike too? They are charging us to use their product. Perhaps a movie strike... Oh and a TV strike, they are making you have to buy TV now you know. Only digital in 09. Horrible capitalists. Can't understand why people want to make money. Oh geeze it's 12:06 guess I can't post this now. Or does that mean you just won't read it...
(Anonymous) wrote:
Mar. 21st, 2008 04:28 pm (UTC)
aaa
faggot stay out of byob
[info]maxradical wrote:
Mar. 21st, 2008 04:41 pm (UTC)
I support the LJ users strike - in fact, is there any way I can encourage you to extend it?
[info]eiredrake wrote:
Mar. 21st, 2008 06:46 pm (UTC)
Actually it's more about a bunch of whiny overprivileged gits who understand how good they have it.

If you don't like the TOS go somewhere else.
[info]lanein6d wrote:
Mar. 21st, 2008 06:55 pm (UTC)
your reply and icon win at life.

come to russia with me and drink wodka with putin
[info]lanein6d wrote:
Mar. 21st, 2008 06:54 pm (UTC)
LOOK AT ME I DID SOMETHING BY NOT POSTING

THAT TOOK EFFORT

I WIN 1-0
(Anonymous) wrote:
Mar. 22nd, 2008 02:01 am (UTC)
they are a business. Do they have to run any changes past you to see if you approve?

:(
(Anonymous) wrote:
May. 6th, 2008 01:05 am (UTC)
Funny quote

What they say: What they mean:

New Different colors from previous version.
All New Not compatible with previous version.
Exclusive Nobody else has documentation.
Unmatched Almost as good as the competition.
Design Simplicity The company wouldn't give us any money.
Fool-proof Operation All parameters are hard-coded.
Advanced Design Nobody really understands it.
Here At Last Didn't get it done on time.
Field Tested We don't have any simulators.
Years of Development Finally got one to work.
Unprecedented Performance Nothing ever ran this slow before.
Revolutionary Disk drives go 'round and 'round.
Futuristic Only runs on a next generation supercomputer.
No Maintenance Impossible to fix.
Performance Proven Worked through Beta test.
Meets Tough Quality Standards It compiles without errors.
Satisfaction Guaranteed We'll send you another pack if it fails.
Stock Item We shipped it before and can do it again.


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