The Hope Diamond of Spin

[riari]

sarcastic_elf, I think your Hope Diamond analogy is sounding more and more true everyday.

Okay, yes, this is another "What did LJ's owners fuck up now?" post. If you're not interested at all, that's fine. I'm not certain how everyone's friendslist are so I'm passing the info along.

There's a content strike on Friday brewing for LJ. Current outrage is due to this (article within) and LJ not letting its customers know upfront about a change to the accounts. (Another less incendiary translation of the article by furiosity, with some helpful cultural points. )

So, want more info?

Here.

I like femmequixotic's view here.

An industry POV of all this by xie_xie_xie (IJ).

Personally, with so little time to spread the news, I don't think it's going to do much. But I probably will be inadvertantly participating by the fact I really don't post much on Fridays. I look at my friendslist...unless I'm trying to fit in some game time before I leave for the gym. Last week I saw my friendslist on Thursday, and didn't see it again until Sunday.

Or they can go by copperbadge's suggestion and post the heck out of LJ til one of the servers goes down.

Comments

[sarcastic-elf.livejournal.com]

I think that second one is a horrible idea because it'll affect innocent parties. Not just the poster, but departments of LJ (like Tech Support) who have nothing to do with the decisions being protested.

As far as the black out, even if they did have time to organize, I doubt it would do any good in the long run. Kind of like that No Gas Day.

[riari.livejournal.com]

No, it's not a great idea at all. But it was amusing for at least for a minute. :>

And the content blackout wouldn't do much at all. But the fact that they were trying...might, just might, send a message. But hey LJ just apologized (http://community.livejournal.com/lj_2008/3846.html), so I don't think they're going to do much to begin with.