I’m in the permanent camp so my whole feeling towards this would have been annoyance if fandom did a mass migration.
We all know LJ’s mistakes — pandering to homophobic, racist, hypocritical, unaffiliated groups; suspending accounts without looking at the content; speaking to the press before addressing users; and the lack of internal organization that it seemedthat no one was informed of let alone trained on the new policy changes. That said, despite the tiny nigglings about earlier statements that seem to contradict it, the “mea culpa” has satisfied me for the most part as it seems, they have learned at least a few lessons from this.
Will LJ make mistakes in the future? Sure. Will LJ aim to admit to and remedy mistakes in the future? I dunno. LJ not admitting and fixing mistakes is the one to ponder on when deciding whether to abandon LJ. That said, while <24 hours is ideal for responses, I think 48 hours is reasonable to get organized and then decide by commmittee how to go forward.
As for where to jump ship to, you, anything that supports RSS (to recreate the friendslist), pingbacks and trackbacks (blog on blog commenting) is cool with me. Of course, the beauty of a service such as LJ is that it’s all contained in one browser window and the friendslocking and filtering can’t be duplicated (easily, yet) when everyone has their own URL.
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We all know LJ’s mistakes — pandering to homophobic, racist, hypocritical, unaffiliated groups; suspending accounts without looking at the content; speaking to the press before addressing users; and the lack of internal organization that it seemedthat no one was informed of let alone trained on the new policy changes. That said, despite the tiny nigglings about earlier statements that seem to contradict it, the “mea culpa” has satisfied me for the most part as it seems, they have learned at least a few lessons from this.
Will LJ make mistakes in the future? Sure. Will LJ aim to admit to and remedy mistakes in the future? I dunno. LJ not admitting and fixing mistakes is the one to ponder on when deciding whether to abandon LJ. That said, while <24 hours is ideal for responses, I think 48 hours is reasonable to get organized and then decide by commmittee how to go forward.
As for where to jump ship to, you, anything that supports RSS (to recreate the friendslist), pingbacks and trackbacks (blog on blog commenting) is cool with me. Of course, the beauty of a service such as LJ is that it’s all contained in one browser window and the friendslocking and filtering can’t be duplicated (easily, yet) when everyone has their own URL.