LJ Drama

[fuchs]

... Brad leaves.




About Brad leaving: Read here.

Apparently it doesn't have much to do with recent drama, but it's another blow for me. Of course it's getting too boring for him, completely understandable, and I wish him the best of luck. But I trusted Brad personally, heck, I *met* the guy. 6A? Not so much. Especially when
a Livejournal employee publicly puts all fans in one box with pedophiles
as can be seen here in detail.
Mind you, he was only letting off steam, kind of roleplaying, but that really only drives home the point that fiction =/= reality, on which gmth comments here.

And anyway, the point that really disturbs me is that the recently TOSed members where found guilty because of relatively normal gay porn in *locked posts*, as one of the two biggest cases states here.

A few days ago I talked about what happened and obviously failed to be clear about it. I earned the comment: 'Well, when it's about child pornography, I am all for a no tolerance attitude.'
That's the frigging point. It's not about child pornography. It's not about children. It *was* about gay porn being put into the same box as that. By now it's about attitude in general.
They don't even answer us! Can I post a picture of me skinny dipping? Kissing someone? Could I post an artistic photography of a penis? A totally not artistic but sexy as hell drawing of two people having sex? What about three? Would locked be okay? What do you mean, not when it's "obscene"? I mean, Great Darkness, they TOSed people for breast feeding pictures. I don't want to be censored like that. Particularly not in my journal. I thought locking, cutting and putting up warnings would suffice, for that is what you need to shield innocent eyes. Apparently it's not that easy.
And they don't warn you, and they don't let you backup anything.

And now? The more time flies by without ANY WORD from LJ/6A, the more anxious I get. I don't wanna leave. But I will not blog in fear of being measured with that kind of gauge.

Comments

[vout.livejournal.com]

Ich will auch nicht weg von LJ...
Vielleicht schafft LJ es ja, genaue Richtlinien aufzustellen, was denn jetzt erlaubt ist. Ich persönlich hab's nicht so mit pornographischen Bildern/Texten, egal, welches Alter die Beteiligten jetzt haben, mein Gebiet ist eher Mord/Folter/MindRape, aber ein bisschen beängstigend ist das schon. Ich bin hin und habe jede Menge Interessen aus der Schloss-Community gestrichen, weil ich mir nicht sicher war, ob irgendwas davon "schlimm" ist.

Den beleidigenden Post kapier ich irgendwie nicht, aber vielleicht bin ich auch einfach zu müde gerade.

[gaharr.livejournal.com]

Even though I'll probably look like a complete idiot I'll have to admit that I really don't understand the post this blockhead made.

[adognamedfish.livejournal.com]

Inzwischen berichtet sogar Spiegel über LJs Fandom Promblem ^^
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,498677,00.html

[fuchs.livejournal.com]

Ich nehme an, das wird *der* Präzedenzfall, was Zensur im Internet angeht. Das Thema schwebt ja schon länger in der Luft, und das hier zieht so *dermaßen* Kreise... echt krass.
Danke für den Link!

[adognamedfish.livejournal.com]

Ich nehme an, das wird *der* Präzedenzfall, was Zensur im Internet angeht.

Da gab es doch vor einiger Zeit auch Probleme mit einer großen Fotocommunity, deren Betreiber auch mit einem Mal alle möglichen Benutzerbilder löschten und damit auch einen Sturm der Entrüstung bei ihren Mitgliedern auslösten.

[damanique.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about it a lot today. Especially 'cause the company I work at is also going through big changes, and I realized, this is what is happening to LJ/6A.

LJ became big, really big; and Brad wasn't a corporate manager. He's a programmer. A damn good one, but not a manager. All the administration and management tired him out, he wanted to tinker with the code, not all that hassle. And as the site grew bigger and bigger, there was a real need for some professionals. (Since LJ was previously run by volunteers and donations!)

Unfortunately these 'professionals' turned out to be SixApart who, so far, haven't proven to be that professional. At least not in their customer service.

Under 6A's management, LJ is being re-organized. They want to make it profitable, since it's a business, not a charity. And what is profitable, anyway? Gee, let's think, what are the biggest most popular social networking sites at the moment...

MySpace.

YouTube.

That's right... we're on the highway to doom.