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[hatman]

Strike begins in just over 2 hours!

Read my [blog]! No new [content]! (For the next 24 hours.)

Quick review, for those still confused (and I can't blame you, given how sparse some of the "informational" posts have been):

LJ has been treating its users poorly of late. Starting with Strikethrough and the way they handled it, continuing with certain policy changes and such, all the way up through their recent decision to get rid of Basic accounts.

There's a bit more information here, and a (translated) excerpt from an interview with the guy in charge.

All you have to do is not use LJ for 24 hours. No new posts, no new comments... don't even open the site. (Though you can post now to say you'll be participating.)

The idea is to make that point that we're not just customers. We're content providers. Without us, there is no site, and thus nowhere to put ads and no one to look at them. The idea and execution aren't perfect, but... it's worth a try.

Comments

[beansideirae.livejournal.com]

what is strikethrough, anyway? this is the first i've heard of that.

i actually dont entirely agree that livejournal is in the wrong. but i'm kinda in the middle, so i figured i'd throw my support on the side of the locals.

[pgwfolc.livejournal.com]

Strikethrough? Was a big huge deal last year. Some extremist censor groups put pressure or something on LJ, so they decided to make some new rules. Only they didn't tell anyone about it. Instead, they just decided that if you had certain keywords listed in your interests, that was it. Hundreds of accounts were deleted overnight with no explanation. Including quite a few that listed "offensive" keywords because they were support groups.

Eventually, they admitted the mistake and reinstated some of the accounts, but not nearly all. And even that was handled poorly.

There have been other similarly big screw-ups since, but I don't remember the whole history.

Of course, you get people who complain too much about it and make these melodramatic and hyperbolic claims, but that doesn't change the fact that there were some pretty big problems (even if not as big as some would make them out to be).

[beansideirae.livejournal.com]

oh ok. i did know about that, in a general way, from our mutual friend. "strikethrough" didnt ring any bells tho. thanks for clarifying for me.

[pgwfolc.livejournal.com]

np. :)

[pgwfolc.livejournal.com]

Asked someone who knows this stuff better than I do (over in this post. She gave this link and suggested checking out some of these tagged posts. But... strike in less than half an hour, so maybe check them out on Saturday?