PSA- LJ Protest
Mar. 19th, 2008 08:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
boogieshoes
passing this on largely for my non-fen friends (the fandom folks will most likely have seen this already):
LJ has recently disallowed creating new Basic accounts (which are the free accounts without ad content) in a most annoying manner, which is to say *without announcing the policy change*. they did this in conjunction with temporarily filtering their 'most popular interests' list to take out things like fandom, boys, girls - basically, trying to take out sex-related topics in an effort to attract more paid ads to their site.
now, all of this is their right as a private company, but users also have a right to be aware of policy changes and the whys and wherefors of such. to protest the underhanded way LJ has been making policy changes lately, you are invited to participate in an 'LJ Day of Silence', in which no content or comments are posted whatsoever for 24 hours, to start Friday, Mar 21 00:00 hours UTC time. For New Orleans-area folks, that's 7pm Thursday. Here's a link to a time converter to help you determine when the start time would be in your area. i plan on participating, if only to see if i can wean myself from LJ for a day (RMike, i'm looking at you and your crackberry!).
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2008&month=3&day=21&hour=0&min=0&sec=0
-bs
LJ has recently disallowed creating new Basic accounts (which are the free accounts without ad content) in a most annoying manner, which is to say *without announcing the policy change*. they did this in conjunction with temporarily filtering their 'most popular interests' list to take out things like fandom, boys, girls - basically, trying to take out sex-related topics in an effort to attract more paid ads to their site.
now, all of this is their right as a private company, but users also have a right to be aware of policy changes and the whys and wherefors of such. to protest the underhanded way LJ has been making policy changes lately, you are invited to participate in an 'LJ Day of Silence', in which no content or comments are posted whatsoever for 24 hours, to start Friday, Mar 21 00:00 hours UTC time. For New Orleans-area folks, that's 7pm Thursday. Here's a link to a time converter to help you determine when the start time would be in your area. i plan on participating, if only to see if i can wean myself from LJ for a day (RMike, i'm looking at you and your crackberry!).
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2008&month=3&day=21&hour=0&min=0&sec=0
-bs
